What's MY Positive Attribute?

Sarah, Traci, Erin and Michelle’s unit presentation today got thinking about my positive attribute that could contribute to a classroom. Of course while the yarn was being passed around I was scrambling to think about my positive attributes. Neat? No, not really. Cooking? Ha! Loud? Hmmm, depends on whom you ask. Luckily the yarn never reached me (clearly thinking on my toes isn’t my positive attribute either), but when sitting down “my” characteristic hit me. Patience. Not necessarily in the waiting sense of patience, but patience in people. This isn’t always a great thing, I’ve been called a pushover and have a hard time saying no, but I feel it will work to my benefit in the classroom. No, of course I can’t be a pushover in the classroom, but I can take my patience and make it benefit my students. Because of my patience with others I really want to have a good rapport with everyone. It upsets me to have problems with people and I am more then happy to work with others in order to overcome issues. This will be helpful as a teacher because it’s important not to hold grudges on students, because even if you try not to show it, students will pick up on it. I hope that my patience will let me have a relationship with my students that shows them I want them to be successful, and set backs in behavior or academics will never stop me from wanting to help them be as successful as possible.