the first year

This was a great film and it really opened my eyes to what teaching is really going to be like. Being a teacher is not always going to be fun and easy. It is going to be full of hard work and heart-renching moments. Whether those moments are for your students success or fear of safety they will pull on your "heart strings" if you're a good teacher. The moments that affected me the most in the film were probably the one of the student with the speech problem who couldn't get help and his teacher trying so hard to get it for him. The moment of a teacher having to report abuse as that could not be an easy task. And that of a teacher trying to open up to her students and get their film developed, with, as it seemed, was her own money. There was so much struggle in this film it was moving. The teachers were trying so hard to affect their students in a way in which they would take "something" with them. And the students had their own battles to deal with. This makes me think of what my own goals for my class room are going to be. I want of course for my students to walk away with the best education I can give them, but more than anything I want them to be excited. Excited for school, for the world, for life. I want them to want to always explore and to never lose that childlike enthusiasum that school and hard times can kill. I hope I can give them that.