A teaching challenge to make teaching challenging!

Aside from my woes with my class this semester,
I've found teaching difficult of late and have been searching for answers in various guises,
I suspect because I am no longer being challenged by teaching.
And whilst I feel that teaching is a challenging task
I have been happy to be idle and roll merrily along
Rather than push and pain and search and endeavour
And for this, I have become disengaged and numb
So now I set forth, a challenge for myself
To teach like I've never taught or been taught before
With passion and research and preparedness like no other time
To seek out knowledge and strategies and learn
By talking with others, asking for help, gaining wisdom
Become the accomplished teacher that they pay me to be
And draw on the knowledge of the experts and leaders around me
So that teaching and I can walk side by side, hand in hand
Instead of bickering in the car, sitting at opposite ends of the classroom
Pushing past one another in an attempt to be free
I will be the teacher that I would like to be
The person who cares and considers and responds
I will be a teacher that I am proud to be like so many in my own family.
I will be a teacher. It's good to be a good teacher.