blog post_8

blog post_8

The most important thing I have learned this semester during my fieldwork is to pay attention to every student. Each one has something special to add to the classroom, even thought it may be hard to see at times. Not only that but each student is merely a child and is learning how to function as a human being, being a child is hard and each one is at a different level in life. It is very important to me as a teacher to make sure I help each student feel special. I can't even begin to express how important teachers have been in my life. I got married this September and even invited some of my past teachers to my wedding, they made that big of a difference in my life.
One of my siblings also suffer from severe ADHD and some of the teachers he had as a child have impacted his entire life for good. Other teachers however have negatively impacted him in the worst way. One teacher even sent a note home saying that if my parents didn't medicate him they wouldn't teach him. I think a teacher can make a huge impact in a child's life. To be a teacher is more than to just teach the curriculum. In some cases a teacher spends more time with a child than their parents can each day. It is up to a teacher to be a role model in the student's lives, to be a teacher, a mediator, and most importantly a friend. To think that my sibling had no friends but because his teacher befriended him and spent the necessary time to make him feel special, it literally saved his life. I think the most important thing a teacher can do is be more than a teacher, but be a friend. Thanks to this fieldwork observation I have a better understanding of how to relate to students in the third grade. :)