WHAT I MEAN BY. . .
Loving children means: respecting them as individuals, valuing their experiences and knowledge ("Does American society value all of its children?"), establishing trust and building bonds through good communication.
Wanting to help students means: being willing to work, to sacrifice, to serve. It doesn't mean to "parent" especially as that means "patronize."
Another reason I want to teach includes: I love learning and value knowedge. I want to inspire and motivate students to seek knowledge by helping them develop confidence in their skills, abilities and prior knowledge; I want to ignite their curiosity and enthusiasm at the lamp of my own.
reflection 1.2
Your definition of helping students inspires me to think. The word sacrifice stands out to me. As a teacher, what do you think you will sacrifice? Your connection between parenting and patronizing also interested me. I agree with you; we should treat our students as the young adults they are and leave the parenting to their parents. Another important thing you said is the value of knowledge. This is an important quality of teachers because its focus is knowledge in general and is not contained only within your subject area.
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