Describe: This week as I was working with my buddy I was asked to go to his teacher and get some work to help/tutor him. As I talked to his teacher I was told that he needed help with Genetics. My first thought was, “there is no way.” Then I decided to grab one of their biology books and refamiliarize myself in genetics. So, in essence the teacher, had homework.
Analyze: As a student, I always thought “I can’t wait to be a teacher because I wont have anything that I must do at night. If I dont feel like grading those papers, I can put them off until tomorrow. That was my mentality, until last monday. I learned that this mentality has got to go. My father use to gripe all the time about how much time my mother (who is also a teacher) spent at her school. I never thought about it, but this only meant that she truly cared about her students. This goes along with building rapport with your students. By doing something like this to go out of your way to help your students shows them that you care. This is a lot of what we have talked about this semester. Building this certain relationship with your students creates a healthy learning environment that your students want to be engaged in. So, I went home and studied genetics and thought of different ways I could take this back to my buddy and help him raise his grade in biology.
Reflection: Already this shows my commitment to students. I am in this profession for a reason, and it is kids. They need people to care about them, and some students have always been left alone, or had people abandon them. I want to be there for them and no matter how long it takes for them to trust me, I am going to do everything I can for my students. The phrase “like mother, like daughter” is going to be true for my mother and me, especially in this career path I have chosen. My goal as a future teacher is to do whatever I can to help each of my students succeed, not only in my class, but in life.
