Frank McCourt brought up a meaningful quote: “If you are teaching and you are not learning, then you are not teaching.” It made me ponder a lot about how a teacher should always strive to be better, and with some discussion in class, I left with some takeaways from this quote. Given how a teacher should always strive to be learning while teaching, this perceived hierarchy of the student-teacher relationship should not be too far apart. Teachers and students are learners, so their relationships are much closer than commonly thought. While there is a barrier between student and teacher, if this barrier separates the two significantly, then it will be much harder to build a relationship between one another. Another important point in the discussions is what it means to learn as a teacher. We thought of the traditional sense of learning new things and brought the perspective of culture and time. Teenage culture can drastically change over the years, and as a result, we as a teacher should also learn to adapt to it. The culture shift might result in the need for a teacher to change their teaching style. As time passes, students five years ago might have appreciated your teaching style, but now the current generation might hate the old teaching style. Thus, as a teacher, we should learn new ways to change how things are taught so our teachings are more receptive to the current generation. The discussions in class have led me to think a lot about what defines a teacher and got me to see how we should always strive to evolve our teaching by adapting to the ever-changing needs of our students.
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