Since I was a little kid, I have always loved being on a team. I grew up playing baseball and then switched to volleyball in my adolescence, so working together towards a common goal has always driven me. I think that this idea of a team working to accomplish goals is very applicable to the classroom. As is the case on any team, each individual in the classroom brings their own skills and assets. It is by leveraging these skills and assets that the team can succeed and each individual on the team can be empowered. So, my job as a teacher is to identify and focus on students' strengths and bring them to the forefront of their education. Together, students and I can set goals and prepare strategies to achieve these goals. In sports at the highest level, coaches take into account what has worked in the past along with the body of modern research to develop the techniques and ideas that they instill in their players. I think that it is vital that teachers do the same. We as teachers have learned from the likes of Vygotsky and Krashen that the best way to acquire a foreign language is to speak it and hear it in a comprehensible fashion. I can use this information both in my ESL and my Latin classrooms. Only by using the best strategies and focusing hard on bringing out my students' (teammates') strengths can I find ultimate success in the classroom.