Teaching Hope: Empowerment

The first entry that really spoke to me was the first entry of this section, entry 136, From Students to Teachers. The reason I really loved this entry is because it was very visible that the teacher was changing their student’s life. One of the reasons this entry really spoke to me is because this is the kind of thing I want to inspire in my students someday when I am a teacher. You can see the change that this teacher made in Luis’ life from him not caring about an assignment to being inspired to be a teacher himself. I just really loved reading about the impact that this teacher had on their students and how inspiring their teaching was for their students.

The other entry in this section that really spoke to me was entry, 138 which was called Student Coming Out. These kinds of entries always really hit a chord with me, because it’s one of those things that always makes me think about what I would do in a situation like that. The way this teacher tried to help her student really made me think about what I would do if I was this teacher. It’s kind of something that you don’t ever really think about when you consider becoming a teacher, that your students might look to you for guidance or tell you things that no one else knows about them. Because you might be one of the only people that they feel like they can trust and talk to.