3 letters from Teddy reflection

3 letters from Teddy
When I’ve read these story, I was touched because it is so inspiring and it shows how important the role of educators in touching a child’s life despite the low salaries and the pressure on the job. It is human nature to like the intelligent and smart kids in the classroom and to dislike those who are like the “outcasts”. But as educators, we should not be entitled to dislike the outcasts and the black sheep inside the classroom, for we should all look equally into our students whether they are smart or not. It is pretty obvious that what the teacher did was wrong, disliking Teddy and putting an extra effort to put a very bright red mark into his paper. Although Teddy doesn’t know that his teacher really dislike him, he looks at his teacher as his mom and look highly upon her. For him, his teacher is like his mother even though the teacher isn’t making any effort to help him at all. I almost cry when I’ve come to the part where the teacher was opening her gifts during the Christmas party because Teddy gives his mom’s possessions to the teacher who secretly hated him. The teacher knowing this felt guilty so she wept and did her best to help Teddy. In the future, Teddy succeeded in his chosen career and he was also lucky because he find love, what more could I ask for when this happened to me? The inspiration for this is Teddy’s teacher.
Very nice story indeed, it shows how important teachers are. As educators, we have a very important responsibility when it comes to teaching and we are responsible for our students learning. We should make learning fun and easy for them, help them to develop their cognitive aspects and brings out the best in every child. I believe that everyone of us have a special ability/talent but they just haven’t notice it yet so one our role is to help the child discover what is it. This is very common, almost everyone sees it that way that our role is just inside the classroom and helps learners in their academics and develops their cognitive measure but they are wrong because there is more than that. Educators should serve as a role model to every child, an inspiration and a guide to everyone. Let us do our best to help every child in need, whether it is our favourite student, the outcast of the classroom, the class clown, or whoever it is because each child is unique and special in their own way. We don’t know what they are going through, what kind of problems do they have when they go home or outside school, we don’t know their story. Just like Teddy, he was suffering from his mom’s death.

What is the most important role of educators in every child’s life? Is it helping to bring out the best in him? Shaping the child’s cognitive ability? Or making learning fun and easy for the child? The answer is none of the above because for me it’s making a difference in every child’s life. Just like in the story, how the teacher served as an inspiration to Teddy, we could see that the teacher becomes a very relevant person in Teddy’s life. Who are the teachers that we could not forget? Of course our favourite teachers, not those we don’t like and also not those who are just neutral to us, but the teachers who inspire us, those who believe in us and those who told us to never give up.