Educating Esme Book Report

Educating Esme is a story of a teacher’s thoughts, teachings and life before and during her first year teaching in Chicago. The book begins with her talking of her mentor and how she taught her to love the children and jump in and take charge. Madame Esme as she likes to be called lands a job at an enter city Chicago public school, she begins the time before school starts with ideas for a story book festival that gets shot down and with a battle for her “not legal” name to be her formal name at the school. She bumps heads with the principal in this area, yet he wants her to be at his beck and call, calling all hours and doing tons of extra paper work for him. I love that she has so much excitement in setting up her room and making it her own, she goes into such detail about the boards she makes and how proud she is for that first day. She gets her share of nosey input and sideways glances in how she has decorated her room, one teacher even says she has made the room over …show more content…
I learned to make my room mine, and to be creative even if that means that my room stands out from the others. I learned to be creative when books and lectures don’t get the point across. I just loved her use of music and dance to teach math, which will be something I use in my own classroom. I think the most important thing that I learned to do would be to bring love in, no matter how hard a day may be for me, it may be two times as hard for the children as well. Showing those kids love in the classroom may be the only time they get it, everyone deserves a safe place. I think the one thing I learned to not do is would maybe be not allowing the switching of places and having the child teach my classroom. I think the outcome worked great for her, maybe not so much now, it seemed like pure ciaos could ensue at any