Philosophy Paper Proposal

  For my paper I will be looking at how teachers need to be good mentors for our students, not only from a educational aspect, but from a peer stand point as well.  Students today look up to teachers more than most people think.  The philosophy behind it is knowing that teachers spend most of their lives being around kids thinking that whatever they tell them, goes in one ear and out the other.  When in reality administrators, parents, and even the teachers do not know that there are those select students who really engage with what the teacher is saying actually has an impact on that child's life.  Everyone in school had that teacher that we all looked up to, but for what reason?  That is it, is that there are endless reason why we looked up to a teacher because of the way they taught, if they were a coach, possibly even helped you with an out of school problem.
  Teachers too how become unaware with how much of an impact they have on a child's life as well.  Even if it is something as simple as  asocial media site, if a students sees one thing that they could misinterpret, it could totally fracture the image they had of that person.  This is why there must be a limit to what and who teachers let view their social media sites, if they even have one. Especially in todays world where anyone can view anything on the internet, once it is on the web it will always be there.
  For me the need for teachers to still be the role models that the younger generation looks up to is because teachers, for the most part, are who children should look up to.  Many young teens idealize star athletes but with all the money and fame comes heart break and to much power to handle for some.  Some athletes we see today get into drugs or alcoholic problems because they just do not know how to deal with the fame and fortune they have possessed.  Even though today there are more cases of teachers who have ups and downs whether with alcohol or even some have affairs with underage students, these are rare cases tat should not be taken out on all parties of the teaching profession.  Teachers to me are the one people who are able to get into a child's head when parents and no one else can.  They have something about them that lets a student trust them more than anyone else and we as teachers must remember this and not give them a reason to doubt us either.