The part of chapter one that struck me most interesting and what left me most shocked after reading was when a student stated that they didn’t want the teacher to recognize or reveal personal information about themselves especially publically, specifically acknowledging a student’s birthday (page 1).
When I read this particular sentence by this student I actually had to go back and reread it because this was the first time I had to think of all the different aspects of students lives and feelings from the other side. This was the first time the job of a teacher became real to me and this students feelings allowed me to understand with more clarity that teaching deals with way more then just knowing the content of your subject matter, but it’s about how you connect with each student and how to adjust to each students comfort level. This will definitely help me in my future encounters with students because it allowed me to relate back to my feelings of being a student at the high school or middle school level and how I had a similar though process as this particular student. This one simple sentence has allowed me to connect being a teacher with the feelings of students at this age and influence how I approach each student in the future.
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