(ii) How does a teacher feel when his pupils grow?
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Answer:
- Get to know your students and the lives they live. This is especially important if your students are from a different cultural or socio-economic background than you. ...
2) Actively listen to students. ...
3) Ask students for feedback. ...
4) Reflect on your own experience with care.
Answer:
How does it feel? It feels wonderful…mostly.
It’s one thing to help students through a year, but to watch them go on to success in life beyond school is even better.
I have stood up in a former students’ wedding. A former student stood up in mine. I have written letters of recommendation for former students and watched them get into colleges, graduate programs, and careers.
I have five former students who outrank me in the chemistry world (they have Ph. D.’s and I don’t) and several more who are likely to get there. They still call me “Mr. C.” and I always correct them: “I’m just Dave now…Doctor.” Former students are now dentists and engineers, writers, and even teachers.
I have hugged former students’ spouses and held their children. I have seen their faces when they come to conferences with a younger sibling, all smiles with stories of “Oh, I remember Mr. C. He was such a hard teacher!”
I watched a former student perform in a major play. I cried.
A 6 foot 6 inch 333 pound lineman picked me up and spun me around like a rag doll after I tutored him to a high enough ACT score to qualify for a football scholarship. I cried…I was just a little afraid, too.
When I’m done teaching, I will have instructed over 3,000 students. There’s a decent chance that I won’t remember more than half of them - there are already names and faces that are lost in the blur of so many students.
But some of them are forever etched into my memory. I speak with many of them to this day.
It is the thought that maybe, just maybe, I had a little tiny bit to do with that success, that I nudged these kids into orbits of amazing adulthood…that’s what makes teaching the best job in the world.
Explanation: I've asked my dad about this and he said something similar to this. I've changed some of what he said as I didn't like some parts. This writing is from my dad's perspective.