Stronger Relationships In Every Kid Needs A Champion By Rita Pierson

Stronger Relationships In this generation there are many educators who go to work and then go home. However, Rita Pierson, presented a TED Talk in titled, “Every Kid Needs a Champion.” She was a school teacher just like her parents for 40 years, and she has different feelings on how students will grow. Pierson gives a TED talk to an audience who she thinks may struggle with giving students teachers that they may like. Pierson wants to motivate others to know that in order for a student to learn they need someone who can build a strong relationship with them as an educator, and she tells this through sharing her personal life stories with the audience. The first aspect that one may notice about Pierson is her appearance and her assertiveness …show more content…
She tells how a colleague told her that they don’t pay to like the kids, they only pay her to teach the students. She tells this story in order for the audience to know that teachers are not building relationships with students. Pierson responds with a statement of her own to that particular teacher. She says, “You know students don’t learn from people they don’t like.” (Pierson, TED Talk). Pierson explains this in her speech because she wants more educators, and people who know educators to realize that teaching is more than just go to the school, teach a lesson, and go home. Pierson is trying to emphasize that a student needs more than a teacher to help them succeed they need a teacher and a friend. That particular teacher stated that it wasn’t true a student didn’t learn from someone that they like. Pierson replies back with that the teacher is going to have a long year ahead of her talking like that. Pierson agreeably says it was a long year. She is trying to express that if an educator goes in thinking that they will teach a lesson, and then let the kids go on they will never learn. Day after day students can come to the schoolhouse, as Pierson would say, then they will not learn anything that someone teaches them. Pierson also states, “Tell a student you are sorry, they’re in shock.” (Pierson, TED Talk). Pierson uses this as a moment to express how educators usually don’t express if they are sorry to a student. Students are used to educators to not take the blame for when they do something wrong, they just accept it and move on with the day. This story about the fellow teacher is a clever way for Pierson to show that teachers should be form relationships with the