Thursday, September 16, 2010
Compassion
Teachers can be just teachers and have the students learn what they are teaching on the board, but the best teachers are the ones that know their students personally and show compassion towards their work and their students. One of the teachers that would be compassionate towards her students was my band director in high school. Not only would she conduct regular band rehearsals to learn the music, but she would talk to us about other general life lessons and how to be successful in the things that we do. She would talk to us about relationships, school work, and more of the issues that high school students might have. Her door would always be open to talk if a student needed to. Teachers need to show compassion towards their field of teaching and towards their students, because teachers need to be people that kids can look up to and that are successful at educating the youth.
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Hi Matt, (I'm Jim's student aid, in case he hasn't "virtually introduced" me to your class; he gave me permission to check out/comment on your guys' blogs)
ReplyDeleteI like your connecting compassion with authenticity in teaching - some of your classmates have written about this too (you should check out Jessie's page). So why is it so hard to find a teacher that's willing to 'be real' with his/her students? Your band director sounds like a good model for many teachers in today's schools.