Essay on The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter

Parents usually have the best intentions – like protecting their children from life's hardships and preparing them for adulthood. However as with many other aspects of parenting, the results do not always match the intentions. Overprotective parents generally want to protect their children from harm, hurt, pain, failure, unhappiness, bad experiences, rejection, and disappointment (Lindsey 1). However, parents must realize that overprotective parenting has certain side effects. Parents believe that they are doing a favor for their children by keeping them safe without realizing that this parenting style can have severe effects on children such as robbing children of the essential life skills that they need in order to have a healthy

One of the goals of education is to motivate and engage our students in learning, even the things that are difficult for them. This paper addresses the hopes and challenges of teacher’s today. Two key perspectives will be highlighted. First, can society find a balance of democracy and mastery of standards in today’s classroom? Second, is it possible to structure a classroom that is inclusive of each child’s individual traits and diversity?

The following evidence is a student's Semester Two Report. The report demonstrations that I involve parents and carers in their children’s learning (3.7.2). The report is contextualized as comments and grades provide parents and carers with an insight on their child’s strengths, while also suggesting areas for improvement. This allows parents, carers and teachers to work together to assist the student’s future development (3.7.2). Each semester report is accompanied by a parent-teacher interview. This facilitates face to face interaction and establishes further opportunities for parents and carers to be involved in their children’s learning (3.7.2).

In the book, The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter, Vivian Paley (1990), a kindergarten teacher examines the role of stories and storytelling in teaching her students and addresses the development of friendship in the classroom. Paley (1990) describes her adventures in understanding and learning about the minds of her students as they go to multiple unknown places when in the process of play. Paley (1990) discusses what she has learned and discovered as her students play and act out the stories that come to their minds. Through Paley (1990)’s voice and the children’s play and conversations, the book follows the story of Jason a lonely boy and his triumph into the storytelling society of his classmates. This book review will critically evaluate the book’s usefulness in light of the course topics play and friendship.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry B. Adams. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to play a big part in children’s education, which is why I have decided to enroll for an education course. I believe that educators have a lifelong impact on their students and on the development of resilience. Thus, I aspire to inculcate my love for learning into the next generation, by influencing and inspiring children all through their formal education.

Many of us look up to someone important in our lives. This role model can be anybody, from “famous” individuals, fictional characters, and even “ordinary” people. Although they may be very different, each influences the lives of young people everyday. In Carl T. Rowan’s “Unforgettable Miss Bessie” and Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average,” the authors demonstrate that one of the most common role models comes in the form of a teacher. Educators are said to be second in line after parents when it comes to influencing youth. They are trainers who play a crucial role in the development of students.

Today, teachers strive for the creation of positive and influential learning environments for all students. Moreover, they aim at increasing children’s chances of succeeding. They constantly re-evaluate their teaching strategies for educational improvement of students. Teachers create supportive and respectful school environment that makes students strive for more prosperous and eventually rewarding lives. According to Deborah Tannen, the teacher’s encouraging and

An American psychiatrist by the name of William Glasser once stated, “When you study great teachers…you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” Teachers are a huge part of an individual’s life. From the time a person enters into preschool until the complete cessation of their educational career, the teachers and professors along the way each influence that student’s perspective and feeling towards the particular subject they taught. With daily interactions, teachers become a part of a student’s microsystem. They are often times the only other constant adult figure in their student’s life apart from the caregiver. Whether it is acknowledged or not, the importance of teacher cannot be overstated. Unfortunately,

Successful teaching occurs when the teacher is able to select the most efficient method for reaching out to each student’s individual style of learning and inspire students to rise to their highest potential. While the responsibilities of a teacher are extensive (as one can serve as a teacher, a friend, a counselor, a disciplinarian, an entertainer, a facilitator), I believe that students should play a big part in shaping own education as well.

I will encourage teachers to foster healthy relationships with their students in order to develop “social counterspaces” what Anita Tijerina Revilla defines as spaces where people can talk openly about their frustrations and share their experiences with others (Revilla 53). One way to achieve this level of comfort in the classroom is to have students write testimonios. According to Norma Cantu, testimonios are life stories that allow the writers to document and reflect on their achievements and struggles (Cantu 474). Students will share these reflective essays in order for them to get to know each other on a deeper level and build relationships by acknowledging their

In Playing School Or Telling The Truth, Margaret Metzger explains the critics with routined schooling, whereby students do not get the chance to challenge intellectual work; she uses an example of an exceptional student teacher named Jeff Finley, who had to alter his way of teaching to achieve an education environment filled with intellectual challenge rather than routine, passive teaching; Margaret expands on the idea that teachers should go beyond their own enthusiasm for a subject to convenience their students that deeper comprehensive learning has an essential value that strengthens what it means to have real education.

Ms. Howe calls herself as a child “a misfit” with a dash of spontaneity. As she grew up, she diluted both attributes allowing her a professional career as a teacher. The journals allow the “misfit-ness” of each student manifest itself to others. The “edgy” and “crossing-the-line” answers must remind her of herself when she was young. By opening up to the teacher, the students are not only coming out of their shells, they are learning how to communicate themselves to others and have others see them as adults. As one student opens, this encourages a snowball effect in the environment to make it easy for even the shyest students to share their own deep

Francine peeped her head into the little window next to her seat in the opulent helicopter. Her husband, Brewster, had bought her this last year. She was just seconds away from her favorite tropical forest in Papaikou, a place of fond memories. She had lived nearby while in University.

“What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.” 1A teachers objective should not be to shape the students as a reflection of that educators image, instead they should see themselves as the medium of which the information in communicated, they should see themselves a person who elevates that students to higher concepts of learning, aspiration and liberation. A good teacher must recognize the strength and weaknesses in skills of the individual and class and reflect on how to leverage strength amongst learners to

As children, we absorb information and learn from experiences that mold us into who we are. Many individuals impact a child’s life, but the most powerful and influential role lies in a devoted teacher, a teacher provides growth to students as a gardener would to a garden of flowers. Each child can bloom into a thriving flower so long as you water their garden with optimism, love, patience, and guidance. Throughout my educational experiences I was lucky enough to have educators who poured their knowledge and optimism into me, and now I would like to reciprocate that back to students who are in the position I was once in. Balancing life and school is hard enough for a student, but a powerful and caring teacher can steer you in the right direction. In this autobiography you will read about my educational background, experiences that influenced my decision to become a teacher, and what I believe the role of a teacher should be in a student’s life.