Video Reflection: Do You Believe in Me?

The words of the young Dalton Sherman seemed to be powerful and motivating to those in the audience, to me they didn't inspire anything new inside me. That is not to say that I don't think this presentation was effective. In fact I can see no better way of getting the message that educators need to believe in their students than by having a student tell them that. The video didn't impact me greatly because that is something I already believed in. In my life (young as I may be considered) I have seen all sorts of teachers with different philosophies and teaching styles. One type of teacher I could never understand are those that do not even seem to like the students nor what they are teaching. Basically they (and there are very very few that come to mind) don't like the kids nor do the believe in them as Mr. Sherman put it. I don't know how a person can believe they can help someone do anything particularly learn and become anything when they do not care about that person. I could go on, but I think I have gotten my point across that I do agree with the message in this video, that teachers need to care about and believe in their students because sometimes, as Dalton Sherman put it, a teacher may be the only person a student has.