Bridge Building

Teaching is like bridge building. What needs to be taught has to connect with what already matters to the students, and something new must be taught.
When building a bridge you want to connect a gap so that there will be access through it. Such as teaching, you are connecting students to what they already know and expand their knowledge to new things. A teacher believes in her students and works on them, tugs and pushes and leads them to the next level. The purpose of the bridge is to provide passage over an obstacle. When you think about it, this is what teachers do all day long when they are teaching the students. They provide a lesson plan; a clear understanding of what the students are learning. And also like a bridge one step at a time is build. Teachers have to pace themselves and accommodate their lesson plans to the students. Beams and arches are used to make the structure stable, just like teachers control and support the class.
A teacher teachers something where access has been blocked, like the bridge. Once the bridge is built things can go through it and there’s access to the other side. Teachers give students access to new things. A good example of this is when the child learns something new, or something that they don’t understand, and once the teacher teaches them, they understand it clearly and that blocked access is now clear. The bridge is there forever, it’s a very strong and useful foundation just like learning.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams