A Personal Review Of Connecting In Your Classroom

The future generations of our world lies in the hands of mostly our teachers. Our teachers help to mold, shape, and guide our children into a future with success. We rely heavily on our teachers to care for and grow our students into professional young adults. How do we do this? How do we get on a level of understanding with these kids? Making them love learning and want more for themselves than what their parents may be or the community they come from. One of the best ways to get on the kids level is student-Teacher relationships or just really getting to know your students. You have to be a part of their lives and learn what they love. Student teacher relationships has three main points we are going to look at. First, you must learn how to

Third, you will see specific things you can do to engage with your students. Every child is so crucial and important, the more we let slip through the cracks, the more our society falls. Teacher have to connect with kids on a level they will understand. They have to make the kids truly feel like what they love the teacher loves also. Furthermore, how do we start to build these student teacher relationships? One of the first things I learned is that the students have to trust you, without trust students won’t respect you. In the book, Connecting in your Classroom, it states “trusting teachers gives students responsibilities” (Starkman 8). These children need responsibility. They need to be held accountable for the actions they take and not the parents. You can’t teach responsibility in a book, but instead you must trust the students with responsibility and see how they take it. In the society we live in today we are so used to blaming someone else. I am sorry, but I don’t want to raise kids up that think that same way. Another way is to engage yourself in the children’s lives. They want to see that we care about them and what they like. They want us to watch their

One time that I have seen this is in the classroom of the teacher I am shadowing. Mrs. Fones has a way of connecting with each and every one of her students while still keeping the whole rooms attention. She is able to call all of her students by name and recollect on things they told her earlier in the year about what they like and their families. She stays personally involved with her kids. Another time we had a guest speaker come in. His name was Mr. David Cook and he spoke to us on teacher student relationships. He told us the story of this very hard little boy, who was written off by most teachers. Mr. Cook saw potential in him and truly got to know him. He learned about his hard family life at home and some of the brutal things that he had to see. Mr. Cook could have written him off as well, but he didn’t. This forever changed that little boy’s life and he still comes back to see Mr. Cook to this day. Then I take a look at my own life. I have had 40 teachers in my and I remember about 3 of them. Only 3 teachers really took the time to understand and become close to me instead of just teaching me a subject, they taught me life lessons. I did better in those 3 teachers class and learned more than I ever have in any other class. It makes a huge difference to a child of all ages when a teacher takes the time to personally care about them. I was a well put together