Chapter Three Reflections

Reflection 3.1

I have been humiliated quite a few times in my life.  It mostly happened in the age of junior high and maybe even my freshmen year.  It happened while on free time or out on lunch.  During these times we would always go out and play basketball or football.  We did the usual two captains who pick their team one by one.  I was pretty athletic in these days but wasn't always seen as such because of my size.  All through school I was really never skinny but still very athletic.  So people would look at me and just assume since I was bigger that i would be terrible person to put on their team.  So what was humiliating to me was being picked almost last every time.  I am a competitive person and I took this as a challenge but it still hurt my feelings to know that just because of my size I was not a good athlete.  This would always make me feel awful because I felt helpless and it wasn't something I could change overnight.  I had really never really said anything to anyone about how I felt.  I would just go along and play as hard as I could to try to prove I was better.  I feel that no matter how good or bad I did in those games that I still was picked towards the end every time.  In reality it is what it is and I just dealt with it but it was embarrassing for me because I thought of myself as a good athlete. 

Achievement

I believe that there are different types of achievements in life and as a teacher.  A personal achievement for myself would be graduating from college.  Another achievement would be to see your students improving at a skill that you were coaching them.  An example would be teaching the skill of shooting a basketball correctly and the student making a shot.  Another achievement could be receiving something like a coach of the year award where you are competing against other coaches.