Statement of Informed Beliefs Essay
As a future teacher I’m excited to teach the future generation and give them the best education that I can offer. One thing I’m very excited about is getting to know and learn about all the cultures I will come across in my teaching career. Each student is a different learner and knowing this I am fully aware that I won’t be able to expect that the way I teach will not be perfect for every child. In this paper I will show my own beliefs about diversity and how I will make sure it is celebrated in my classroom. My views will be separated into the following sections: all students can learn, teacher’s expectations, student’s social ecology theory, cultural diversity instruction, and curriculum for all learners. …show more content…
To make sure I acknowledge the life histories and experiences of my students’ ethnic backgrounds I plan on doing my own research on the histories of the different backgrounds I teach. Taking my time to understand how different cultures raise their kids will help me better understand a child’s guardians, which was a theory concluded by Greenfield, Suzuki, and Rothstein-Fisch. I feel that keeping this theory in mind and having my own personal need will help me work with guardians to give their child the best education they deserve, but will also help me notice the similarities cultures might have in raising …show more content…
For example, some cultures concentrate more on the survival a child learns so the person raising the child might depend on having the child solve their own problems as opposed to coddling them (Richman 1988). Being able to understand these differences gives me a chance to figure out how to present the importance of certain aspects of education that might seem unimportant. Communication also varies from culture to culture, for example in some cultures not making eye contact with authority figures is seen as a sign of respect. Understanding this will give me a chance to create an understanding environment and help prevent me from falling into a situation where something like the lack of eye contact wasn’t due to disrespect but a cultural misunderstanding.
A big piece of socialization in school does happen to be culture, this then will end up bringing the topic of the difference between cultural pluralism and cultural assimilation. The difference between these two ideas are actually very drastic. The definition of cultural pluralism is when smaller groups of people who live in a larger community keep their cultural identities. Cultural assimilation is where a person or group’s culture begins to slowly resemble another’s. An easy way to describe this idea is comparing cultural pluralism to a salad and cultural assimilation to a
As a future teacher I’m excited to teach the future generation and give them the best education that I can offer. One thing I’m very excited about is getting to know and learn about all the cultures I will come across in my teaching career. Each student is a different learner and knowing this I am fully aware that I won’t be able to expect that the way I teach will not be perfect for every child. In this paper I will show my own beliefs about diversity and how I will make sure it is celebrated in my classroom. My views will be separated into the following sections: all students can learn, teacher’s expectations, student’s social ecology theory, cultural diversity instruction, and curriculum for all learners. …show more content…
To make sure I acknowledge the life histories and experiences of my students’ ethnic backgrounds I plan on doing my own research on the histories of the different backgrounds I teach. Taking my time to understand how different cultures raise their kids will help me better understand a child’s guardians, which was a theory concluded by Greenfield, Suzuki, and Rothstein-Fisch. I feel that keeping this theory in mind and having my own personal need will help me work with guardians to give their child the best education they deserve, but will also help me notice the similarities cultures might have in raising …show more content…
For example, some cultures concentrate more on the survival a child learns so the person raising the child might depend on having the child solve their own problems as opposed to coddling them (Richman 1988). Being able to understand these differences gives me a chance to figure out how to present the importance of certain aspects of education that might seem unimportant. Communication also varies from culture to culture, for example in some cultures not making eye contact with authority figures is seen as a sign of respect. Understanding this will give me a chance to create an understanding environment and help prevent me from falling into a situation where something like the lack of eye contact wasn’t due to disrespect but a cultural misunderstanding.
A big piece of socialization in school does happen to be culture, this then will end up bringing the topic of the difference between cultural pluralism and cultural assimilation. The difference between these two ideas are actually very drastic. The definition of cultural pluralism is when smaller groups of people who live in a larger community keep their cultural identities. Cultural assimilation is where a person or group’s culture begins to slowly resemble another’s. An easy way to describe this idea is comparing cultural pluralism to a salad and cultural assimilation to a