Thursday, February 5, 2009

Response to Susan's post

When I read what Susan said about the teacher she observed, I was appalled! "Good"teacher or not, the impression she left on her students when discussing college was different for each of her student's, depending on what "type" of student they may be. For instance, if a child was receiving "poor" grades, they probably left her class discussion feeling "unworthy;" unworthy of a college education. What does this do to a child's esteem? It kills it!!! How dare the people who are supposed to be encouraging, treat their students SO differently and degrading! I know there are plenty of students out there that JUST NEED SOMEONE TO CARE!! Many times, a teacher can be that person. So telling certain students they are not college bound, or that they are only good enough for Community college, (which is NOT bad) is inexcusable to me. Sorry to rant... I just really took this personally because these are the EXACT students I hope to teach/encourage someday!
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  1. SusanFebruary 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM

    Alicia,

    I too was disturbed by what I heard. The good thing we can learn from it is the impact our words have on others. I know that I will take this information with me as I enter a career as a special educator. I hope to empower my students to set their goals high, regardless of what obstacles lie in their path. Perhaps we have lofty goals, I don't know. I guess we'll only be able to know once we are in the profession. I guess we'll have to find the balance between meeting the needs of each individual student and pointing them in the "right" direction when we know where it is they would like to go.

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