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Summary Of Becoming A Teacher By Taylor Mali
Taylor mali who wrote what a teacher makes is a very inspirational and great book to read for becoming a teacher. In his book he writes a lot about how teacher are made out to be and they really are not. In the book it tells how teachers should get more credit than they do, people criticize teachers and don’t think they work hard enough but they’re wrong teachers stay late after school grading test, homework, and getting ready for future lessons even when teachers go home they still are working on something over the weekend. Teachers don't get a lot of time to spend to themselves they have a little more time than any other job because they get the whole summer off but even in the summertime they are still coming in getting their classrooms ready for the school year and making sure that everything is ready to go come fall. …show more content…
One main part in the book is that when a teacher calls a parent that the parents always answers what did my child do this time, parents always think that if a teacher calls them it’s bad news but teachers need to make good phone calls to, to reward the student. The 2nd main point is when the student called the teacher stupid that shouldn’t be allowed no student should disrespect a teacher like that and when the teacher calls the parent to tell what the student called them and the parent said well were you doing something stupid. Parents always go on the students side and yell at teachers for what their kid is doing wrong. The 3rd main point is that your student becomes your child. All teachers students are basically like the teachers kid they see them every day they learn about them and get to know what they like and don’t like. When students have bad parents a teacher can’t make up for tat but they can be their role model and treat them how the kids deserve to be

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