A lot of the time people write their names on pieces of paper because it’s a natural instinct, or because teachers say “points will be taken off if your name isn’t on this!!”
When I think back to kindergarten after I had made a piece of artwork that looked much like the Mona Lisa –just kidding – my teacher came over and told me to write my name on the back of it. When I asked why I had to write my name on the back of the paper the teacher responded by saying that if I didn’t, she wouldn’t know who to give it back to.
That made sense to my kindergarten self, and I definitely wanted to bring my drawing home, so I wrote my name on the back.
That response was what I always thought of when I wrote my name on pieces of paper as I went through the rest of my middle school years. When I got older and my classmates forgot to sign their name at the top, the teacher would take the person aside give them a pretty similar explanation filled in with some higher levels vocabulary words.
It never really occurred to me that everything that I had written on all those papers shaped the way my teachers thought of me, and more so shaped the way they viewed my writing. To me it was just a homework assignment or an essay, and yes it did matter to me at the time the grade I would get on those particular assignments.
However I never saw the big picture, the picture that my teachers were seeing. The “big picture” were all the little aspects that were in all my homework assignments, the way I formed my essays and the way that they would read them. That is how they could get to know me better, through all those writings.
Take pride in everything you hand in to your teachers or professors. Because this is the way all those important people, the ones that are teaching you how to grow and flourish, get to really know you. For students, you spend 45 minutes everyday for 9 months in a classroom with your teacher(s), and their are multiple students in that classroom…. It’s not just you!!
Teachers do not always have the time to personally get to know you. In other words, they take what you write and shape it into who you are in and out of their classroom. So, try and see all the assignments you are doing as a reflection of yourself not just as a grade.
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