Reflective paper 5

When a culture goes through their rights of passages ceremony this is when a boy becomes a man, and from then on his whole world changes. This relates with teaching, because every culture is in your class room. The things you teach may relate to one kid but not the other. Teachers are not here to give special attention to every single kid in her class. Still as teachers we are meant to respect other cultures beliefs even if we don’t agree with them. Their cultures shape a person from who he is to what he wants to become. Being a teacher we play a major role in what our future generation wants to become. Depending on what we teach them, how we teach them and a big impact on guiding them in the right direction, the rest of the journey is up to the student. During the rites and rites of passages ceremonies, these students have been put through fear, courage, and bravery. While fear was installed at such a young age, bravery and courage take a main role in how a man is to represent himself to his society. This role is also played in schools. A man with pride and courage must be dealt with different care than a man raised in a different background. Teachers are not their just to teach, they also deal with social aspects in society in their classrooms. If you think going into teaching is just giving a child an education and moving them on in life, you have another thing coming to you. Teachers are built with charismatic care, courage, and the strength to know when the teacher can not help the student anymore and must send the student to hire authority. Teachers are presented with hundreds of kids each year, some teachers make a lasting impression on a kid, and therefore they go above and beyond. But, the reality is half of your students will go in and out of your classroom without a care in the world. The initiation rites and the rites of passage ceremonies students have gone in and out of their society just like any other kid that grew up in their culture. Their teaching ended when they went out through those forest doors, just like those students end their journey with you once they walk down the stage and receive their diplomas. It doesn’t mean life stopped, it just means they have moved on to bigger and better things.