Teacher Identity and Childhood Memories by

2025-09-11 15:57:52 UTC

Ava and Tay

It makes the students be able to focus and engage with the content more. It makes it more personal and local. It can inspire them to then go ask their family members.

2025-09-11 15:58:06 UTC

So the students are aware of the significance of the day, since they did not live through it. It shows that she is committed to using her memories in positive way to teach her students.

2025-09-11 15:58:24 UTC

Allows the student to gain real raw feelings. Beneficial to have someone who lived through it.

2025-09-11 15:58:28 UTC

By sharing her own personal story regarding 9/11 she makes the retelling of this event more personal making it easier for student to understand and make connections with their owns lives.

2025-09-11 15:58:29 UTC

shows teachers that they have emotions and are humans outside of being a teacher.

2025-09-11 15:58:35 UTC

she shows it to remind the students that past history still effects them to this day

2025-09-11 15:58:41 UTC

It shows that even though what she went through would be traumatic, she used her experience to educate her students on the topic and the severity. It makes the learning experience more personal

2025-09-11 15:58:41 UTC

Stella Liana and Liv

The purpose of the teacher sharing her own experience with her students is giving them the opportunity to see the realism of history and how it affects everyone around them

2025-09-11 15:58:43 UTC

The purpose of the teacher sharing her childhood memories of 9/11 with her students is to make history personal and close- 2001 might seem further away then it is.

2025-09-11 15:58:46 UTC

The purpose is that it gives students the chance to know how crucial history is and how it still affects us till today.

2025-09-11 15:58:47 UTC

It shows transparency from the teacher that she values lived experience as teaching material. She’s willing to be vulnerable, speaking about something personal demonstrates openness, which can strengthen student teacher relationships.

2025-09-11 15:58:47 UTC

Riley and Molly and Lilly

We think this shows that the different emotions associated with a teachers life shape the tools and ideas that they use in the classroom everyday. Negative memories affect the teaching methods used significantly more than good memories as they stick around for a lot longer.

2025-09-11 15:58:55 UTC

with these memories she has of 9/11 she uses them to help her teach. She uses this is as history impacts today.

2025-09-11 15:59:04 UTC

The purpose was to…

allow the children to realize it wasn’t that far in the past and it wasn’t that far away (impacted people they know)
To recognize the seriousness of the situation
To bring awareness to the event and the impact it had on the world

2025-09-11 15:59:11 UTC

1) By sharing her experiences she allows the students to see the emotional toll it has on her. This creates a bigger impact on the students

2025-09-11 15:59:24 UTC

question 1 — as she said in the video, the students are living the consequences of 9/11 despite not being there — understanding why and how history has shaped the world we live in is important to navigating that world and respecting the past/knowing when not to laugh and when to actively learn.

2025-09-11 15:59:50 UTC

Amelia and Miranda

We think the purpose of the teacher sharing her childhood memories of 9/11 with her students is to bring awareness and bring it to life and carry on the history. I think this shows she values relationships with her students by sharing a personal story.