Troublemakers

 For Blog #5, I decided to pull quotes from TroubleMakers, written by Shalaby. 

How Teachers Impact Their Students

Preface

1. "For the most part, schools value quiet children over loud ones and operate as though adults are the only teachers in the room." I really enjoyed this quote because I have always been frustrated at teachers that treat children as less than or try and dim their creative outlets. I feel that a lot of times teachers try and teach with what lesson plan they have in mind and work around the "noisy kids", however this problem of disruptive kids could be solved by finding what interests them. When they are doing tasks that interest them, their creativity would blossom and the class would be less rowdy because they would be turning their "negative" energy into a positive.

Introduction

2. "I was in charge of asking the questions and he was charged with answering them. I was the adult, the teacher, the leader. He was the child, the pupil, the follower." I thought that this quote ties in with the previous quote because as it is commonly perceived that the teacher is the ring leader and the students just follow behind them. I chose this quote because I think it also shows that the children and students that you work with are extremely malleable and want to learn. With this means that teachers need to be aware of just how much of an impact they make on students.

Reflection:

I throughly enjoyed this piece. I think that compared to other pieces and articles we have read, this was my favorite. I think that this text talked a lot about the impact that teachers make on students and how the students all have their own set of individual characteristics that serve a purpose in their classroom and how that can be better approached and maneuvered.