Sunday, September 28, 2008
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 is me! I love this chapter because I can relate to it so well. Everything that I have ever envisioned happening in my classroom between my students and myself is exactly what chptr 3 discusses. I decided to become a teacher because I believe I can make a positive difference in each of my students' lives by being a Responsive teacher. Although, when I first began my journey of becoming a teacher and even up until I just read chapter 3, I did not know that everything that I believe I wanted to be when I become a teacher was called a "Responsive teacher". I always knew that's what I wanted to be, because that is the type of mother I am, but I did not know how to express in words that this is the type of teacher I want to be. I just felt it and knew it deep inside as I know that is who I am. I am so thankful that I now know that I am not naive or unrealistically optimistic in my desires to be what I can now put a name to...a Responsive teacher! I am so relieved to have a name for what I have felt and believed! Thank you! And, by the way, I love Esme'! I love the three things she does religiously every morning (pg. 29) and I am going to implement that when I become a teacher! :]
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It is such a delight to "watch" you get excited about how WHO you are will matter in the lives of your students! It was neat for me to read that you've always known that you wanted to be a responsive teacher because that is the type of mother you are.... I've come at it totally backwards from that. I've been learning deeply that I must become a responsive teacher, but the more I learn about it, the more I feel I have failed my children, who needed and deserved a responsive MOTHER. I have all kinds of baggage full of mother-guilt, and questions about why I "get it" about responsive teaching, and fall so short of responsive mothering... ah, well. Maybe you will rub off on me!
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