Analysis Of To Teach, The Journey In Comics By William Ayers

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William Ayers’s book “To teach, The journey in comics” shows us Ayers perspective of being a good teacher and some teaching myths. A good teacher helps the child to succeed by enhancing his strengths and working on his weaknesses. A teacher should motivate children to try things beyond the academic requirements and explore its inner talents. Ayres, in this book, asks a question that what makes a good teacher? Should the teacher be like a commander who instructs children to follow a certain path that doesn't involve any creativity or should it be like an explorer who walks along with students and embarks a new journey filled with adventures and surprises.
According to William Ayers teaching should involve every part of a teacher and not restricting themselves towards performance of an assignment. He thinks that teachers today should go beyond traditional teaching techniques to help out students. This will need teachers to put in extra efforts and face many challenges. Ayres says that “ Its often myths that young teachers must fight against”. Some of the myths that Ayres point out about teaching …show more content…

A teacher should guide and motivate children to follow their heart. Teachers should give support and encouragement to students when they try something new and should not tell them what they should do. Ayers gives a real like example of his former student José, who was not very good at studies which eventually led him to drop out of school. Ayers then sets out to find something that José had which would help him in his life. Ayers found that José was good at skateboarding so he offered José a chance to teach skateboarding to the class. So we see that guiding a child to do what he likes is more important than pushing him into doing a thing he doesn't like. When one does what he likes the most, he will do it with all his heart and soul. This hard work will definitely help him succeed and be happy in

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