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When I interviewed everyone, it was interesting to see how the responses were very similar but very different at the same time. For example, one individual asked told me their favorite teacher was an old college professor who switched to teaching high school. While he was a brilliant man, he was also very strict with his students, and one time the individual received a C grade on her paper; the first time she ever did. Through the end of the semester she began to better herself due to him to push her to do better. While it was a lot of hard work, she did end up getting As on the rest of her papers. While he was strict, he pushed students to do better and be better. Beyond that, he also prepared many of them for college.
The thing that really interested me though was my question about the different learning environment and the answers were all relatively the same; passion and caring. Even with me still being a student, I have always know rather or not a teacher cared about her students, cared about what she was teaching, or being passionate in general. Teachers who carried all of these things not only were phenomenal teachers, but they helped the students become who they could. These types of teachers are the ones who build a solid foundation for the students to succeed in whatever they wish to do.
I loved doing these interviews because for some of the people I talked to, school wasn’t the greatest experience for them; they struggled. However, they do have some good parts of school and that would be the leader of the classroom they would walk into for an hour five days a week. It would be one of the few times that the person would be happy and enjoy school. In one student’s interview, that teacher was one of the reasons that he came to school and was able to express who he was.
Sometimes as teachers, it feels like you don’t make a difference and there’s no point in coming back. Still coming from a student standpoint, you do. We notice the differences you make, and we respect and care about it. Keep trudging on.
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