I’ve gotten to notice how much respect has to go into becoming a great teacher and I’ve noticed how the children respect Mrs. Roark but thinking about it, Mrs. Roark respects teaching in general. I’ve gotten to know Mrs. Roark not only as a teacher but as a person as well and she honestly loves what she is doing. She has been teaching for the past twenty years and has been teaching third grade for about half that time. She has worked at Rosa Parks since it opened and has been tag teaming teaching with the teacher she teaches with now for almost ten years.
Since she has created such a welcoming and safe environment I don’t think the children only respect her as a teacher and an adult but I think they respect her because they know that with her there is no dumb answer.
Mrs. Roark has to be one of my favorite teachers that I’ve been able to observe because you can see how genuine she is about her love for her students. She does not refer to them as her students in her classroom but she says that she considers them he children; I’ve never seen her have a bad day at work. She always comes to the school with a smile on her face and she knows that she is changing the world, one child at a time. When she talks to the children, she knows that they are hungry for knowledge and that each child is special. She has told me that the only way you can last in the education business is to look at each child as a gift not as a problem child. She’s told me several times too that she would not change her profession for the world.
To become a teacher is make an impact of people’s lives. She has reminded that you are not only teaching the children in your class but you are teaching the families of the children as well. Teaching is not a profession but a lifestyle. WE are placed on this world to make a difference.
xoxo
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