Social Justice

I think that nurturing your students is important to keeping them on task and involved with the class, but could that lead to other students thinking you are favoring a student or group of students over another. I think that all teachers should try to help every student they have to the best of their ability but they need to be carful not to leave any students out. Once a students feels they are not getting the attention they deserve their work will start to decline, and then they will become a student who gets more of the attention causing another student to fall behind. Nurturing the students is important to show them that you care and that the work they are doing has a reason.

I liked the fourth point that Herbert Kohl brought up, about not letting teaching take over your life and still having fun and enjoying different aspects of life. I think that is something that a lot of teachers forget and sometimes they will bring outside moods into the classroom. If a teacher has fun and has things to look forward to doing besides school work they will be more relaxed and more enjoyable in the classroom for the students. If the students see that the teacher is no uptight about everything they will be ready to show up to class enjoy the time that they are there and learn more because they are not just waiting until they get to leave.