JOURNAL 8

    This week has been very hard because I have the flu. It is very difficult to control students when you don’t feel good, nevertheless, you have to carry out the class. In fact, students are very noisy and classroom management becomes a real challenge. Besides, they do not follow instructions and do not like to work. Students from 504 are very noisy too but at least they like to participate and try to do the exercises by themselves.

     There are two weeks left of class in the school and at this point, I start reflecting on my work as a teacher and what have students learned from me at this time. I feel that I have got to know some of my students deeply. They have been nice to me and I have tried to understand them without forgetting my role as a teacher, of course.

     This week something interesting happened to me. I was walking my dog in a street near my house when I heard another dog barking inside a spout. I didn’t know how to help him when I saw a student of mine walking with other children. All of them worked together to help the dog and finally, they got it. I was very proud of my student who was directing the others. Finally, I thanked him and he seemed very proud of himself. Later, I started thinking about what teachers should teach to children beyond English or Math. I think that the simple fact of helping somebody who is in trouble is a sign of personal growth and humanity and if we as teachers thought that kind of things, children might grow with a different mind.