Week #4 Ch.3 & Ch. 4

2. Share 3 (three) exact quotes that are meaningful to you (from across these two chapters), and explain why they matter to you.

#1 "The very least we ought to expect of ourselves is that we figure out what we hope for in this life. The most we can do is to make sure we live inside our hopes,rather than admiring them from a distance." This quote matters to me because it's telling you to remember why you wanted to teach in the first place and what your hopes are to accomplish with it. When you live inside your hopes, which is for me to help the children, who will gradually make bonds with them by your attitude. This will make there experience in your classroom one to remember and one where they learned so much.

#2 "To establish ties with a student, we must come to see how each student is unlike every other-and to see that, we must form ties with that student." This quote speaks to me because it saying that we need to see each student for who they really are and that they will each bring a different piece to our classroom. We need to search and find out their individual skills and learn about their worlds outside of class, so we can be a help to them and together learn more than we did when we arrived the first day.

#3 "Invested teachers are often the ones whose room contains students before school, during lunch, and after school. Invested teachers make links with students lives outside the classroom as well. Invested teachers act as mentors for students, as advocates, and as partners." This quote encompasses the type of teacher I want to be and be seen as. I think a big part of being a teacher is reaching out to them in things they do or go through outside the classroom. This make you become a mentor and someone they can learn from in more then one way. It needs to be under control and done professionally not stepping on parents toes or under-minding their parenting techniques.