Building connections

[Eva Morales]

I enjoyed reading the story of “Pets.” I, like You Jin, think that it’s important to build a connection with students in order to have class management go well. I think that all teachers need to read this book, because it showed how even a child that doesn’t have the interest to engage in something academic, he or she might have the desire to do something else. Like Wen Li, sometimes students want to matter to adults, because they might not be getting that at home. I know that our job is to teach, but sometimes we need to wear other hats to be able to connect with the students. This way we are able to establish that we do care for them and that they matter.