Summary about "Every kid needs a champion" video

This video is about Rita Pierson speech, who following her parents and maternal grandparents’, she has been an educator for forty years. For this reason, she could see the different reforms which have occurred over the years in education.

The aim of her conference is raising public awareness that even if knowing the academic failure’s causes, such as poverty, there is something that is never discussed: human relationships. Rita Pierson considers very important the communication between a teacher and a student, because the link established between them must be solid. Moreover, one of the main teacher’s concerns should be to motivate students to become what they want to be.

Although the most important teachers’ task is teaching, their work isn’t only limited to that, a teacher must know how to apologize to their students, to understand them, to pretend in front of those who they may not like, to try to strengthen their academic self-confidence and above all, make them feel someone.

Pierson wants to follow her mother’s steps who became a clear example of communication with her students because she achieved to become a reference for many of them who even went to say goodbye to her at her funeral.

I’ve gathered some phrases which Rita Pierson have been quoting during the video for three different reasons:

·         First of all, they summarize the speech.

·         Secondly, I really like them and, obviously, they caught my attention. From my point of view, Rita Pierson has a great communication quality. Due to her apparent self-confidence, everything is being announced by her is full of energy and, probably, this is one of the reasons why the speech is very enjoyable.

·         Finally, they make us reconsider if the current education system is good enough.

“Teaching and learning should bring joy.”

“How powerful what our world be if we had kids who weren’t afraid to take risks.”

“Don’t give up.”

“Understand and you will be understood.”

“Try to found a champion in every child who also deserve an adult who never give up on them who understand the power of connection and insist that they’ll become the best that they can possibly be.”

“It’s not impossible. Educators can make the difference.”