Philosophy of Education-Pedagogy of the Oppressed

This piece was about how building relationships between students and teachers is something every teacher should do. I agree with this. If the teacher and the student have a good relationship with one another, it allows the teacher to learn the student's learning style. Having a good relationship with your students also allows the student to feel safe and comfortable enough with the teacher to ask for help if they need it. However, it appears that many teachers care about the power that they hold over their students. These teachers are described as "oppressed" teachers. I have seen this during my time observing different classes. I have seen teachers who you can tell genuinely care about their students. The classroom environment seems so much better with the teachers who care about their students. The students that I seen were on task and many finished their work early. Unfortunately, I have observed classes where the teachers seem to only care about power and only making sure the students get their work done. Much like with the caring teacher's classroom, the students completed their work in class, but the positive atmosphere of what I think a classroom should be simply was not there. If a teacher has a good relationship with their students, it also allows a free-thinking classroom, which, in my opinion is absolutely necessary. I believe a teacher should learn from their students just as the students learn from the teacher.  I really enjoyed this reading. However, I also feel that most of what was in the assigned reading should come natural to a good teacher. However, this reading did remind me to form and keep good relationships with my students. I feel this should be the case with all teachers. This reading for sure reminded me of that. I will take what I read in this reading with me into my classroom in the future I feel all teachers should have to read this. It serves as a great reminded. It reminded me just how important having a good student-teacher relationship is.