I believe that teaching should not be something done by the teacher alone, instead it should be both the teacher and the students learning together.[1] The students must be entrusted with their own education so that they can make their own discoveries.[2] Teachers remove themselves from the routine education has become when they allow a student to ask questions and discover the answers.[3] Teachers can foster the students’ education by ensuring the students are receiving a learning environment where they can expand their knowledge in their own way.[4] By getting involved in the community a teacher can better serve their students’ interests and connect what they are learning in class to their everyday life.[5] I believe every child has the potential
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Frere (1989) believed that “Education is suffering from narration sickness.” (p. 57) I want my classroom to be a place where I ask a question and make the students learn from one another and themselves, not from me just standing in the front of the class and writing answers on a board. “Problem-posing education, as a humanist and liberating praxis, posits as fundamental that men subjected to domination must fight for their emancipation (p. 74) This is the kind of classroom this course has been and it has been my favorite class so far in college because I feel like I got to take charge of my own learning and not just be lectured at, as many of my professors …show more content…
Garbarino (1994) said “Mesosystems are relationships between contexts or microsystems in which the developing person experiences reality.” (p. 25) Ladson-Billings (1995) believed “Teachers can better serve their students once they become a part of the community.” (p. 479) I agree with both of these readings and hope to be involved in my students’ communities so that I can better understand where my students’ come from. By knowing this, I will be able to cater my lesson plans and activities around both the curriculum and their community.
This relates to Albert Cullum in “A Touch of Greatness”. Throughout the entire film, I was inspired to constantly teach to my fullest potential. Cullum never let anything or anyone get in the way of his creative teaching methods that benefited his students. He was involved in their community, even creating a festival where students of every age could perform Shakespeare. I aspire to me as good of a teacher as Cullum was and to see the greatness in each of my
Frere (1989) believed that “Education is suffering from narration sickness.” (p. 57) I want my classroom to be a place where I ask a question and make the students learn from one another and themselves, not from me just standing in the front of the class and writing answers on a board. “Problem-posing education, as a humanist and liberating praxis, posits as fundamental that men subjected to domination must fight for their emancipation (p. 74) This is the kind of classroom this course has been and it has been my favorite class so far in college because I feel like I got to take charge of my own learning and not just be lectured at, as many of my professors …show more content…
Garbarino (1994) said “Mesosystems are relationships between contexts or microsystems in which the developing person experiences reality.” (p. 25) Ladson-Billings (1995) believed “Teachers can better serve their students once they become a part of the community.” (p. 479) I agree with both of these readings and hope to be involved in my students’ communities so that I can better understand where my students’ come from. By knowing this, I will be able to cater my lesson plans and activities around both the curriculum and their community.
This relates to Albert Cullum in “A Touch of Greatness”. Throughout the entire film, I was inspired to constantly teach to my fullest potential. Cullum never let anything or anyone get in the way of his creative teaching methods that benefited his students. He was involved in their community, even creating a festival where students of every age could perform Shakespeare. I aspire to me as good of a teacher as Cullum was and to see the greatness in each of my