Guy With the Red Shoes

      The guy with the red shoes, or Jeff Bliss, is an individual that knows what is good for the children inside of a classroom. In order for students to be fully engaged and learn, it is the teacher's duty to be able to bring up a discussion. If nothing is brought up, what good will sitting there and handing out worksheets do? As students are more physically and mentally engaged on a subject, new ideas and concepts can be brought up upon it. In my high school physiology class my teacher would put us into groups of four and allow us to converse the topics of how the body works. She would give us homework the night before about a topic, such as how the heart works and what causes the beating. As some people were not able to understand the reading last night, this would allow it to be clarified through not only a teacher's point of view but a fellow peer's point of view. What Jeff was doing was that he was arguing for the hope that teachers will interact with others, rather than just pass things out and expect them to understand. Some teachers believe that they should only teach content rather than actually helping students. Different people have different learning styles, others are better at retaining knowledge by just learning straight from the book, others require hands on attention in order to grasp the concept. I will paraphrase Andrade, a rose growing out of the concrete will only continue to grow if an outside source will help nurture it to health. The student is the rose growing up inside a community that only seems to reject them, the teacher is that gardener that helps that rose to grow up and shine inside the community that only seems to forsake them. If a student cries for help and no one is around, will they make a sound? Yes, but only if you choose to hear it. That's what it means to be a teacher, a guide, a nurturer, a difference.
        Teachers must also be willing to give up some of their spare time to help these students in need. What else does it mean to be a teacher, it means you must teach. They must be able to not only teach content but also how to understand the concept how to grasp it and a bunch of other things that can help the student. Teachers fail to realize that they were once those same students that had those same questions. They also fail to realize that once in their life, a teacher had once made a huge change into their lives causing them to be a teacher as well. There is a passion in being a teacher/professor, that passion is to ensure that all, not just one, but ALL of the students understand the content. A survey shows that students usually enter college with no idea what they want to do in the future.However by the time they leave, something must have touched them in order for them to keep pushing onward with a dream that they have not realized yet. Future teachers are usually inspired by other teachers and realize what they want to do because of what their teachers have done for them. But the future teachers fail to realize this and ask students why they can't decide a future or why they lack inspiration, it's because they haven't found it yet. There's a phrase that goes "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine." In this context the teacher will have to provide the student with something of meaningful value, that being their time and effort to aid their growth and ever expanding curiosity of students. From there, the students will then give their full attention and cooperate with the teachers more fluidly.