Day 4-Morning

Question: What do you do well when connecting with your students? Do you have concerns about connecting with your students?

I think the best thing I do when I feel that connection with my students is when I relate to their world in my methods of teaching. In my school, adults are seen as the enemy and not to be trusted. They have never had an adult to depend on or rely on for anything. I have to prove to them that I can be trusted and that I am there to help them. When I started this job in January, it took me at least 9 weeks to connect with the kids in my classroom. This was terrible and I almost quit because I need this connection to feel successful. The different environments from which I am familiar with and my students are familiar with causes me much concern. I want to relate but a lot of what goes on in their homes would not be things to which I could relate because I had a rather safe and caring childhood/teenage life. My kids say that I have lived a shelter life. Maybe, I have been sheltered compared to what they have experienced but who says that I can not shelter their lives for the time in which I have them in my classroom.