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"The kind of teacher you will become is directly related to the kind of teachers you associate with. Teaching is a profession where misery does more than just love company- it recruits, seduces and romances it. Avoid people who are unhappy and disgruntle about the possibilities for transforming education. They are the enemy of the spirit of the teacher.

This conclusion really stood out to me because it's 100% true. Because I'm interning at two different schools, I can see the difference of attitudes to both teachers. This plays a huge part on the students and how they choose to learn. They will sense your rejection it will completely change the learning environment. In this Ellen video, one thing that Mr. O. said that really hit me was,
"If you fill your class with love today, you'll fill the WORLD with love tomorrow." Sometimes I'm tired, I don't want to come to school, but the students I see, make me get up. They force me to change and get in my car and sit in the morning traffic. I may go in in a bad mood, but as soon as I walk into the classroom, I know that I'm meant to be here.

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Ellen Surprises Inspiring Baltimore Teacher Mr. O

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Inspiring teacher Wyatt Oroke sat down with Ellen to talk about giving more opportunities to his students - who surprised him all the way from Baltimore, Maryland.

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"The longer teachers teach, the better they are at their practice. that practice may serve to empower students or it may break the student's spirit. That decision belongs to the teacher." p.207

As an intern, my observations didn't go as well. I just feel like I have a longggg way to go to accomplish to being the teacher that I want to be. But I know that with my mistakes, I will learn to become a better teacher and my experiences will help.
"They use their own knowledge to treat others. Teachers treat by giving intelligence, doctors treat by medication. When we treat someone that needed our help, we become happy."

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"For the length of time this excerise was going on, the whole class was expected to engage using only the local neoindigenous slang of Washington heights neighborhood of NYC, where they all came from."

In high school, I had a hispanic English teacher that would try to speak ebonics with her African American students. I personally thought that it was weird and never seemed to understand why she did this until I read the book. I'm so glad that now a days, students are able to be who they are at times when in school. It makes the students more comfortable with coming to school.

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" They see themselves as valuable only when accepted by the people they have been trained to see as valuable." p. 177

As mentioned before, I always felt that it wasn't accepted to be who you are at home. Teachers in the hallway would prohibit speaking Spanish. In the hispanic culture, when you greet someone, you always hug and kiss(on the cheek) to say hello and goodbye and the teacher would write up discipline referrals disorderly conduct. I stopped greeting people as if we were out of school, but some people were really offended. I just thought that is the way of life. And you have to assimilate to become successful.

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"A practice that has taken root in field like linguistics, sociology, and cultural anthropology, and that focuses on where and how a speaker alternates btwn 2 or more languages or dialects in the context of a conversation or interaction. " p.175

I can personally relate to this quote because I go through the same thing at home and at school. I like that I read this part of the book, because as a young girl, I didn't even know what code switching was. I  thought it was frowned upon. My grandparents were very proper and would constantly contract me about my spanglish. It's good to see that the students today have the right to bring out their culture into the schools.