Chapter 1: MMM

In Rick Wormeli's Meet Me In the Middle, the first chapter discusses the topic of communication with your students. First, the stereotypical thoughts of some teachers are "TGIF" or "The best three things about teaching, June, July and August." Our attitude towards teaching is one of the biggest things teachers need to remember when walking into a classroom. If we walk in positive and upbeat then our students are going to be more engaged. It is very important to be a good role model for students as well. The author also mentions that what we put into teaching is what we will get out of teaching. If you go in with a poor attitude then you aren't going to get a whole lot out of your teaching experience. Wormeli also discusses the idea of perceptions, and that not everyone's are the same. A joke that you think may be harmless, may I fact be very hurtful to a particular student. Perception could also be based on the student- teacher relationship, because a student may take one comment from a teacher differently than they would the same comment from another teacher.