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The document discusses the author's views on being an effective teacher. The author believes effective teachers are kind, knowledgeable, slow to judge, engaged, and great listeners. They inspire students to challenge themselves. Throughout high school, the author immersed themselves in teaching and learned that caring about students and being more than just a teacher is most important. The author's goal is to make students feel seen, loved, and heard in a safe classroom environment where they can relax and breathe. While the author cares deeply about others, they recognize the need to set boundaries to be successful. The teachers who had the greatest impact on the author were understanding and showed love and empathy. The author aims to be a compassionate, empathic teacher

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Who I Am

The document discusses the author's views on being an effective teacher. The author believes effective teachers are kind, knowledgeable, slow to judge, engaged, and great listeners. They inspire students to challenge themselves. Throughout high school, the author immersed themselves in teaching and learned that caring about students and being more than just a teacher is most important. The author's goal is to make students feel seen, loved, and heard in a safe classroom environment where they can relax and breathe. While the author cares deeply about others, they recognize the need to set boundaries to be successful. The teachers who had the greatest impact on the author were understanding and showed love and empathy. The author aims to be a compassionate, empathic teacher

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Who I am

When I think of an effective teacher, I think of someone who is kind,


knowledgeable, slow to judge, engaged and a great listener. I think of someone who
inspires me to challenge myself and others to be the best version of ourselves that we
can be. I see some of these characteristics in myself and my teaching style, but I only
hope to embody all these one day while in my own classroom.

Throughout high school, I was immersed into teaching courses. I was able to go
into local classrooms and really understand what it took to not only be a good, effective
teacher but also what I was strong at and what needed work on myself. I saw very
quickly that the teachers who wanted to be there, who cared about their students, and
who were much more than just a teacher to them were the most effective. The teachers
who were there simply to teach a subject, were often disliked and even disrespected.
Being able to watch these teachers and the teachers around me from such a young age
has instilled in me the values of being an effective teacher and human above all else.

I believe teaching should be about the student and how they learn, not so much
of the teacher and how they teach. A teacher should be able to adapt to their students
to give the students the best chance at understanding and mastering the material they
can. My goal as a teacher is to “educare”. I want to make sure my students feel seen,
loved, and heard each time they enter and exit my classroom. I strive to have a safe
classroom, where even other students who are not mine feel comfortable enough to
come to me when they need help. I plan to create a space where these kids can
breathe and relax because they might not get that outside of my walls. I will see them as
humans who need love and support for, I see them as students needing to check off a
box.

I am someone who cares about others, a little too much. I tend to push past my
comfort zone to make sure someone else is okay taken care of. Throughout my
classroom experience, I have learned caring is a characteristic that can be my strength
or weakness. Showing compassion and empathy for students is extremely important to
me, I will just have to learn how to set boundaries so that I can be successful. Realizing
this can be a weakness from conversation and reflection, I have seen how teachers also
use this to their great advantage.

Thinking back on my education, the teachers who always stuck with me and had
the greatest impact on me were those who were understanding and loved me. They
were stern and I knew I could not push their boundaries, but I knew at the end of the
day they loved me. “Empathy and understanding from a teacher can not only help that
teacher make a connection with a student, but it can also directly impact a student's
learning in the classroom” (Garrison, SNHU 2019). The attitude the leader of a class
sets will be the precedent of how the learning in the class will go

In these next couple of years, I will become a compassionate, empathic, loving


skilled teacher. I will be effective in the ways of making my students feel important while
also demanding respect. Being an effective teacher does not always mean high-scoring
tests and great academic reports, but teaching is so much more than that. Teaching is a
safe place for students who cannot find that anywhere else. Teaching is the act of
changing how someone views the classroom and the idea of learning. I plan to grow
personally, to set up boundaries in my own life so that I can have respectable
boundaries in the classroom. I plan to be a teacher that my students tell their children
about. My goal is to be the human teacher who is not only effective in teaching
information but also be the teacher that inspires others to be the best versions of
themselves they can be.

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