My Metaphor

For my metaphor, I chose a jewel. The reason that I chose this is because of all of the different facets that the jewel has. This reminds me that in teaching there are so many aspects to our philosophies and not only that, but there are so many different personalities that exist in a classroom. As teachers, we need to have our solid philosophy, but it is important that we are able to work with the different students that come our way because the doctrine (and tenant) is: It is about them! If we, as teachers are able to work with the different children in the way that best suits them, then we can help combat the language of oppression as talked about by Freire.