er Bartlett
ELE 725
Who Am I?
After this week’s reading of Eight Dimensions of American Culture by Marcia Carteret, and completing the self-awareness exercise, I have found a deeper understanding of myself. I was also able to think of how quality’s I have may affect my classroom and my teachings. It is important for someone to know their own culture and beliefs, before they can start to understand someone else’s. This is especially important when working in any type of field that requires you to interact with other people on a day to day basis, like teaching. I want to first go over my conclusions I found from the reading Eight Dimensions of American Culture by Marcia Carteret. In this article, I found many things that I was able to reflect …show more content…
An example of this is in the section that asks for the test taker to indicate the degree of which you agree. Question 14 says, “it is rude to engage indirect eye contact with persons of higher status.” I answered this question no, I feel it is not rude to engage in direct eye contact with persons of higher status. My initial reaction to this question was that this would be rude to do. I then tried to realize that this may be a norm of some cultures. I was able to relate this to my students very easily! I have a student who is an English language learner in my classroom. He has got into trouble a few times in my classroom for bad behavior. I notice when I talk to him about his behavior he refuses to look at me in the eyes. Instead this student will look at the ground. Until now, I thought that this action was rude. After completing the assessment, I am now wondering if his actions are a normal response for his culture. This students culture may view looking at someone like the teacher, in the eyes, as rude. I now feel I should be more understanding of the fact that this may be the normal way of talking to adults in his family. I don’t want to automatically assume this but it is something to take into consideration. It seems to be so easy to automatically think that my ways of thinking are the norm for everyone else, but it is …show more content…
I am a single, Caucasian, twenty-three-year-old female. I am young and have young friends. This means my normal life style would be different than say an twenty three year old women who has kids. I grew up in a middle-class family so my values and beliefs for over half of my life have revolved around this life style. When I think about these facts about myself, I see how I have only known these aspects of my life. This can easily be related to my students in that my students “norms” and ways of life are based on what they are surrounded with on a day to day
ELE 725
Who Am I?
After this week’s reading of Eight Dimensions of American Culture by Marcia Carteret, and completing the self-awareness exercise, I have found a deeper understanding of myself. I was also able to think of how quality’s I have may affect my classroom and my teachings. It is important for someone to know their own culture and beliefs, before they can start to understand someone else’s. This is especially important when working in any type of field that requires you to interact with other people on a day to day basis, like teaching. I want to first go over my conclusions I found from the reading Eight Dimensions of American Culture by Marcia Carteret. In this article, I found many things that I was able to reflect …show more content…
An example of this is in the section that asks for the test taker to indicate the degree of which you agree. Question 14 says, “it is rude to engage indirect eye contact with persons of higher status.” I answered this question no, I feel it is not rude to engage in direct eye contact with persons of higher status. My initial reaction to this question was that this would be rude to do. I then tried to realize that this may be a norm of some cultures. I was able to relate this to my students very easily! I have a student who is an English language learner in my classroom. He has got into trouble a few times in my classroom for bad behavior. I notice when I talk to him about his behavior he refuses to look at me in the eyes. Instead this student will look at the ground. Until now, I thought that this action was rude. After completing the assessment, I am now wondering if his actions are a normal response for his culture. This students culture may view looking at someone like the teacher, in the eyes, as rude. I now feel I should be more understanding of the fact that this may be the normal way of talking to adults in his family. I don’t want to automatically assume this but it is something to take into consideration. It seems to be so easy to automatically think that my ways of thinking are the norm for everyone else, but it is …show more content…
I am a single, Caucasian, twenty-three-year-old female. I am young and have young friends. This means my normal life style would be different than say an twenty three year old women who has kids. I grew up in a middle-class family so my values and beliefs for over half of my life have revolved around this life style. When I think about these facts about myself, I see how I have only known these aspects of my life. This can easily be related to my students in that my students “norms” and ways of life are based on what they are surrounded with on a day to day