Reflection Paper8

I think that the most important things to have as a teacher are values, attitudes, changing beliefs, values, and attitudes, etc. in having values I think it is important because if you value teaching your students, having them learn and interact peacefully and positively with the rest of the class it should keep you on track. You wouldn’t lose control of your class or have any uncomfortable situations with them because you will always have it in mind that your class room should be an ordered, placid, and reassuring environment to learn in; not chaos and disorder. Having a positive attitude in your classroom I think is extremely important. To me, your classroom reflects your attitude; always keeping a positive stance will make the learning environment for your students a tranquil one. If you are in a dreadful mood your attitude reflects it upon your students, they will feel the wrath of your mood and it will have the opposite effect of what you want. Also I think that if you are in a foul mood once it effects your students they will become unruly and they will not be as motivated to learn. I believe that they will be more likely to ignore you and act up when they see you are not cheerful and basically completely take advantage of you. I think it is important to have changing beliefs, values, and attitudes because your classroom will be completely mixed with different types of students with multicultural backgrounds. What might be normal to you could be different to them; for example looking an adult in the eye, in some cultures it is disrespectful not to look them in the eyes whereas in other cultures, like the Latino/a it is disrespectful if you do. So we as teachers have to always keep things like that in mind and not to be to overbearing with issues like that because what might be one way to us could be another way entirely to certain students. To me it is a given that issues like prejudice and/ or using deprecating names are an absolute horrible thing to do especially as a teacher. Students are just students, sure they have a race and ethnical background but in a classroom I don’t think that should matter. Students are there to be educated for the future, not to be treated like they are unwanted or demoralized because of anything like prejudice or name calling.