Blog #5

Blog Entry #5

What do you think is the most important role a teacher plays?

        I think one of the very most important roles that a teacher can play is striving to instill a love of learning in their students. So often children learn to dislike school at such an early age, and it becomes very detrimental to their entire educational career. If a teacher can help inspire them to become good learners, they are helping children in ways they won't even be able to see for years to come.
         In the No Child Left Behind Act, they have children take a standardized test to make sure children are keeping up, but personally I think this test doesn't show how well a teacher is teaching, or even what is going on in the classroom. A teacher may have completely inspired a student who was previously struggling to try and do better, but they still haven't made much improvement on paper, but it doesn't emulate the work or progress going on beyond that.
        If teachers can help children have a desire to do well in school, they will have helped them in ways that cannot be shown on paper.