Jane Tompkins discovered that her goal as a teacher had been to put on “performance,” thus distancing herself from students and subject (pp.28-29).  Do you identify with her self-criticism? If so, do you share Tompkins’s diagnosis of fear as the driving force behind this distancing? In what ways other than “performance” do teachers set themselves apart?

Well, I am in  agreement because we as teacher have to be close to our subject and students in that way we are going to face that we have to solve problem by helping our students and they are going to see that we are human we make mistakes and they can learn from mistakes.

We need to have a sense of personal identity and recognize when we make a bad decision and overcome that situation.

Of course we have to be well informed about the topic or the subject we are teaching about but for our student the most important are not our goals as teacher, for them the most important is to learn something new that can help them in their life such as taking good decisions, make god friendship, find their own personality, and we are part of that process.

We have to be close not only with the subject but also with our students in that way they will be feel comfortable at the time of participate in class, work in groups and in that way our goals will come true. We are not working with robot; we are working with real people who want to be part of the society and solve real problems, not being the problem.