{"id":10931,"date":"2012-07-27T16:54:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=10931"},"modified":"2012-07-31T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:43:35","slug":"the-secret-lives-of-students-dear-future-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/27\/the-secret-lives-of-students-dear-future-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives of Students: “Dear Future Teacher…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breakthrough Miami<\/p>

Teley Laporte, 10, says teachers need to add a little "magic" to their lesson plans. <\/p><\/div>\n

For today\u2019s installment in our series, The Secret Lives of Students<\/a>, students write a letter to their future teachers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This post was written by rising middle school students Teley Laporte and Joshua\u00a0Partridge.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Teley Laporte, 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear future teacher,<\/p>\n

Good listening skills are very important when teaching a group of students.<\/p>\n

You should be open to new ideas from students.<\/p>\n

You should give quizzes if needed.<\/p>\n

Being funny is not that important, but don\u2019t be so strict.<\/p>\n

Some kids are very sensitive.<\/p>\n

You need to know what\u2019s in style in the kids\u2019 world so you can be familiar with it and have something in common with them.<\/p>\n

Make up consequences for when students misbehave.<\/p>\n

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It would be nice if you have rewards when children do something good like do their homework every day for a week.<\/p>\n

Send home weekly progress notes to show parents how students are doing in class.<\/p>\n

You should know how to entertain your students or else they will get bored and fall asleep in the middle of your lesson.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to put some magic in your teaching.<\/p>\n

From an actual student,<\/p>\n

Teley Laporte<\/p>\n

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Breakthrough Miami<\/p>\n

Joshua Partridge, 11, says teachers should work with students independently is they are shaving trouble understanding a lesson.\u00a0 Partide is a student at John F. Kennedy Middle school<\/em>.\u00a0During the summer school program with Breakthrough Miami, she attends The Cushman School campus.<\/em><\/em>By\u00a0Joshua Partridge, 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dear future teacher,<\/p>\n

In order to be a good teacher, I think you should do hands-on activities.<\/p>\n

You should always be reasonable.<\/p>\n

You should make a good first impression to the students to make them like your class.<\/p>\n

If a student doesn\u2019t understand, I believe you should pull them aside and teach them.<\/p>\n

You should be fun and never uptight.<\/p>\n

You shouldn\u2019t give a lot of homework, but if you do, you should make it fun.<\/p>\n

I believe that if we\u2019re reading part of a book for homework, the next day you should probably act it out.<\/p>\n

I think you should always understand the student, or at least listen to them and try to understand.<\/p>\n

You should at all times be patient.<\/p>\n

Always be fair to your class.<\/p>\n

For me, I\u2019m a visual person and need to see things.<\/p>\n

Maybe you should write everything out for your students.<\/p>\n

The students might have ideas that you can use, so you should listen to them.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have an understanding with your students, the class just won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Your rules need to be reasonable.<\/p>\n

Never, never, never not have rules, they are extremely important.<\/p>\n

Be sure to enforce your rules.<\/p>\n

You should try to entertain your students, that\u2019ll keep the class fun and not boring.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Joshua Partridge<\/p>\n

Partide is a student at Doctors Charter School<\/em>.\u00a0During the summer school program with Breakthrough Miami, he attends The Cushman School\u00a0campus.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

All month we\u2019ll hear from students about life in Florida schools. They\u2019ll open up about\u00a0conflicting home and school rules on fighting<\/a>, being\u00a0hungry at school<\/a>, feeling\u00a0left out of academic programs<\/a>,\u00a0and other aspects of school\u00a0life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For today\u2019s installment in our series, The Secret Lives of Students, students write a letter to their future teachers. <\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This post was written by rising middle school students Teley Laporte and Joshua Partridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1122,592,556,1067],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}