Chapter Two of Pedagogy of the oppressed

I really enjoyed reading this article because it explains the importance of teacher and student relationship. I believe this will be the most important aspect you can do as a teacher. If you have that relationship with your students’ they will know you are human too. If you are a fake person in the classroom as a teacher and not yourself, the students may not want to learn from you. The banking method this article mentions was honestly a bit confusing for me to understand at first. The message I am taking away from this article is that students’ come into the classroom just thinking that you are their teacher. They view you differently than they do their parents because you are someone who is just teaching them a certain content. But, what they don’t know is that we are human just like them. We are someone they can always come to, use sarcasm when something is funny, and love them through the hard times. We not only care about their well-being, but their education as well. I know when I was a student I looked at my teachers differently and never thought they had lives outside the classroom. Once teachers showed me that they did actually have lives and they did things besides coming to the classroom to teach me, I realized they were human just like me. Going into the teacher side of things I want my students’ to know that I joke just like them, I love just like them, and I learn just like them. If I provide this type of environment in my classroom, I believe my students’ will strive to learn from me. I want them to enjoy coming to my room, not dread it. This article was hard for me to understand at first, but I think I did understand the overall message they were trying to get across.