4.16.2012
I am attached.
Today I got a note from my reading professor. It read: "I am so happy with all the progress "A" and you have made. Obviously, "A" has improved a lot in her attitudes toward reading while you have gradually become more experienced with your tutoring sessions. I want to particularly mention your objective part and reflection part. Your personal narrative makes me know you better and understand the reason why "A" feels so attached to you in the tutoring session." It is a nice note and the part that stuck with me the most is the word "attached." I admit I get as attached to my students as they get to me. I worry about their academic progress, their home lives, their future, their happiness...the list goes on and on. If anyone were to ask what my strength as an educator would be I would say that it is the connection that I have with kids. It seems silly because it is something that I did not learn in college or even through my experience working with students. I just understand and like kids. I have worked with teachers who do not like kids and I wonder why they decided to be a teacher. Sometimes students in school library media will say getting out of the classroom is the reason they want to be a media specialist. I have always been baffled by that reasoning. My life experience told me that you have to love what you do to be happy, which is why I chose this profession. Perhaps, this simple lesson should be taught in the Freshman 101 classes.
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