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Becoming a Teacher In Herbert Kohl’s, Growing Minds on Becoming a Teacher, I found there to be many helpful insights to the teaching profession. Kohl gives a straight up approach about his experiences while teaching, and what he feels was successful and beneficial for not only for himself, but also for his students. This book taught me that teachers not only teach the students, but the students also teach the teachers. One of the most shocking things that took place in the beginning of the book, was the fact that this man came from a family that did a lot of labor work for careers, whereas Kohl wanted to teach elementary school students how to do the basics such as read and write. I was absolutely shocked that he went through so much schooling, and even got a doctrine at Harvard before he made the leap to elementary education. I personally found this book quit agreeable. I really enjoyed his attitude towards students, and making them more as friends rather than a teacher -student relationship. This approach of making everyone in the school his friend helped me realize that how important it is to have the student’s during the learning process. How Kohl took his students’ lives and went out of his way to make them better, really gave me more energy towards the profession. I realized that this is the type of educator that I want to be.
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