Dear-Teacher-To-Be,
My name is Paulina. I am 11 years old. Mrs. Davis is my teacher, and I am in the fifth grade. I'm glad that you want to be teachers because there are a lot of kids that need you. I hope that you will be the kind of teacher that likes to help and is interested in the kids work. I think that kids like teachers that make learning fun so they won't be bored. They will be interested in fun educational games, but you can't let them go out of control. You also need to be nice, but at the same time stern. When you teach you should look interested and ready to teach. They have a lot of expectations of you. For example they want you to respect them and to help them in whatever they have problems in. They expect you to treat them equally like the rest of the students. soon you will know each of your students and you will know how to treat each one of them. I hope you will follow what I said and you will always be a great teacher.
Paulina, I am amazed at the wonderful and very encouraging advice you have given me. I am very excited about becoming a teacher and it is students like yourself that make me want to teach even more. You must be a very smart and responsible young lady. You have made some great tips for future teachers and I appreciate your advice dearly. Thank you so much and continue to be thoughtful and caring of others. Have a great year! I hope to talk to you again. Miss Ebanks.
Posted by: Jovanna | January 20, 2005 at 01:23 PM
Paulina, thank you so much for the wonderful advice. I am interning in a 5th grade classroom right now and enjoying every minute of it. I am very excited about becoming a teacher and I can't wait to finally have my own classroom! Your advice is wonderful for all future teachers! Have a wonderful year!
~ Mrs. Smolyar
Posted by: Elizabeth Smolyar | January 25, 2005 at 09:53 AM
I am so glad that the students liked my post and it's great that they are going to take my advice.
Posted by: Paulina | January 27, 2005 at 08:34 AM
Mrs. Ebanks, I'm glad that you liked my post and hope that other people take my advice. When I wrote it I thought that nobody would take my advice, but I'm glad you did.Thank you for the nice comment.
Posted by: Paulina | January 27, 2005 at 08:50 AM