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This document discusses the story of an inspirational teacher, Mrs. Thompson, and her student Teddy. It explains that teaching and learning are interconnected and that teachers learn from their students just as much as students learn from their teachers. It describes how Mrs. Thompson initially judged Teddy negatively based on his appearance but learned about his personal problems, which helped her understand him better and view her role as about more than just teaching skills and giving grades. The document emphasizes that both teachers and students are learners in the educational experience.

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Reflection PaperFTC103

This document discusses the story of an inspirational teacher, Mrs. Thompson, and her student Teddy. It explains that teaching and learning are interconnected and that teachers learn from their students just as much as students learn from their teachers. It describes how Mrs. Thompson initially judged Teddy negatively based on his appearance but learned about his personal problems, which helped her understand him better and view her role as about more than just teaching skills and giving grades. The document emphasizes that both teachers and students are learners in the educational experience.

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Video #2: “Story of an Inspirational Teacher”

Teddy and Mrs. Thompson, Both Teachers and Learners

“On this very day, she quit teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic and instead she

began teaching children.” Teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin. One cannot

exist without the presence of the other. Last video, I raveled about the power teachers have.

However this time, I realized that they are not like the superheroes in movies that get powers

with a struck of lightning or a bite of a spider. They are people who undergo a journey of

witnessing young students’ lives and eventually learning how to leave a positive mark on them. I

discovered that in education, teachers learn just as much as their students do.

As someone who went into this course with no prior interest in the profession, imagine

the surprise I felt when I learned that teachers do not only have to master their majors and

teaching methods but also to study children’s development, both physically and mentally. In

college we learned how diverse a group of students can be, how we can cater to their multiple

intelligences, and how we can teach them beyond the content of the subject as role models. It

was always emphasized that teaching is beyond “teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic.”

However, we can only understand that entirely when we actually face students and learn about

them in a personal level. No amount of demonstrations will prepare us from the real thing.

Experience is the best teacher after all.

This made me realize that the center of the academic life is indeed, the learners. The word

“learners” here do not strictly refer to the students instead it takes account everyone who learns

in the experience, including teachers. In the story, we can explicitly see how Mrs. Thompson

greatly influenced Teddy’s life to the point where he remained grateful even after so many years

but likewise, the teacher had a great deal of learning to do before Teddy. Mrs. Thompson was the
kind of teacher who would look at her students and judge them from their appearance. She saw

the little boy as unpleasant and took delight in marking his papers a big “F” and would put his

records last. If she hadn’t learned about the personal problems that the kid was going through,

she would have continued to disregard him. If Mrs. Thompson didn’t learn from the experience

of having a troubled kid like Teddy as her student, she would have continued to view her

profession like it’s a mundane job that revolves around teaching children certain skills and

grading them for it. Teddy taught her that her students are little human beings who are not

exempt from the cruelty of the world and are growing in different circumstances. Teddy taught

me that a teacher’s super powers transcend time because its effect on students last for a lifetime.

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