Truly caring about people is a blessing and a curse. As cliché as that sounds, it will be the most uplifting, yet harmful trait I will have to conquer during my years of teaching. I believe the teaching world is still struggling to truly define what it means to teach a child. Many teachers are still overlooking students in the classroom. Many teachers are still failing to recognize the potential in each student. It is the people who are trying to make a difference that are changing the way people look at the school system. Education as a whole lacks emotion. A classroom does not need to be a place of learning anymore; we have associated the word learning with the word memorizing. We have associate learning with an “A” being superior and a “C” not being good enough. School needs to be a place of growing in all aspects of life. Yes, learning should be somewhere on the list of things to do while at school, but it will not be my …show more content…
Being quite perceptive, I will have to stand back and watch from a distance in certain situations. I truly believe realizing that all children are different and their issues need to be handled in a different way is key to becoming a successful teacher. Knowing the child and perceiving all sides to how he or she might grasp the words I say to him or her is very important. If my attitude comes from “who [I] am . . . what’s around [me] . . . what [I] feel . . . how [I] see myself . . . [and] what [I] think,” then for me personally, my attitude correlates directly with my faith in God (Maxwell). Consequently, not everyone has the same beliefs as me; in a public school I will never be able to speak of Him out loud. But, that is okay because even when in the presence of a nonbeliever, my attitude will be managed by love . . . it does not matter if the people in front of me know that it is connected to my faith or