Blog Post #5

For this blog, please find two different places where Carol makes a statement or quotes someone else, and this statement really touches you... really calls to your heart.

In your blog response, for each statement, give the page number where it is found in the book, copy the most important portion of the statement, and briefly tell why it matters to you -- why it has significant meaning for you. (Please do not use the quotes printed right underneath the chapter titles).

The first one I really liked is: pg. 15. Students come into the classroom saying, "Will I be affirmed as a person here? Is there a real contribution for me to make in this place? Will what goes on here seem purposeful to me? Will it make me realize I have power within me? Will i feel a satisfaction that comes from a challenge conquered?"
I think as a future teacher it is important to think about these questions and make sure they are answered for our students. We need to make sure they feel important and that they can learn and be anything they want to be. It's important that we make our students feel like individuals by getting to know them and encouraging them in all they do.

The second one is from Apollo 13 and when I read it, it just struck something in me. There are two powerful moments quoted: "Houston, we have a problem." The second quote is when the commander of operations pulls together a team of experts...and concludes with the statement,"Failure is not an option."
For me, going into teaching I am kind of fearful. It is such a big responsibility to make sure my students learn and feel important in my classroom. I am responsible for them throughout the school year. This quote to me means that even when I have a problem, failure will not be an option. Yes I might have to change somethings or modify something and remind myself to be flexible, but quitting of failing, will not be something that I will do.