September 6, 2013

What child do I think that I influenced most this week. I have a student that has failed several classes over the last two years and has given up on trying to learn and excel in the classroom. He is incredibily intelligent, but doesnt use his intelligence for his betterment. Today at lunch he asked if he could stay in the room and talk with me instead of going to the cafeteria. I didnt care so he stayed and we talked. He was very down on his confidence and thought that he was just going to drop out soon. I talked to him and went over a lot of his work with him asking him questions. He bagan explaining the material that we had learned and having a very intelligent conversation with me about it. He said that it is just because he likes history, but I told him that he could do it in his other classes also. When he left he said that he was going to try and do better in all of his classes. I feel that he will to. I think that today I may have had the opportunity to change someones entire outlook on eudcation and their future and that is amazing to me.