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I believe being a teacher-activist is...

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I believe being a teacher-activist is...

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- standing up for what you believe in
- standing by your colleagues
- voting in elections
- educating people around you
- educating your students
- raising awareness

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- allowing your students to work with their peers
- allowing students to work together to gain new perspectives and ideas
- co-teaching to receive constructive criticism (to be better teachers!)
- working with a group to converse about topics, hearing and learning about new ideas

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- important to include in schools
- important for students' success
- a way to connect a students' home life to school
- a great opportunity to show the students about life outside of school

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- should be differentiated for all students
- should be relatable for ALL students
- should be fun
- should include multiple different cultures
- should be valued by teachers
- means more student centered classrooms
- means students have a voice
- means students feel comfortable and loved in the classroom

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I believe my students will learn best when I...

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I believe my students will learn best when I...

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- accommodate to how they learn best
- listen to them
- give them a voice
- get to know/understand them for who they are and where they come from
- make the material relatable to them
- notice them and make sure I help them with what they need help with individually
- encourage them and make them feel successful and important

"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn" - Ignacio Estrada

I love this quote because I think it's directly explains the point of all of the classes I've been taking. It's essential to teach our students the way they need to be taught individually. Not every student learns best the same way and we need to be aware of that and make adjusts to make them successful individually.

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I believe that students learn best when they...

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I believe that students learn best when they...

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are interested in the topics and material.
- when they have a good relationship with t-heir teacher(s).
- are taught in ways that the learn best (visuals, reading, one-on-one time, etc.).
- feel safe and encouraged in their classroom and by their teacher.
- when their backgrounds are included in the material and are relatable to them.
- when they are encouraged to use their home language.
- when they feel like they can succeed.

"Tell me and I'll forget;
Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I'll understand" - Old Chinese Proverb

I found this quote and I think this explains how students learn best.  As a teacher, you have to involve your students for them to learn.  Involving students doesn't just mean class participation, but involving their cultures, backgrounds, and home lives into the classroom.

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- means doing whatever is best and needed for your students.
- means understanding that all students are different.
- means making yourself culturally aware and knowledgable for your students.
- means understanding your own background and how it differs from your students.
- means knowing that not all students will have English as their dominant language, and that is OK.  Allowing them to still use and practice their native language in the classroom and understanding why that is important for them and their culture.

"Bilingual education is a means for protecting minority languages while teaching English to non-English speakers" (Spring p. 197).

- means that your students are your number one priority and you love them unconditionally.  You have to build a bond with them, which includes a loving and safe environment in the classroom.

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I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are...

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I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are...

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- Making sure every student is successful
- Loving all of my students unconditionally
- Creating a safe, encouraging, and positive classroom for all learners
- Using multicultural material that relates to my students

"... one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture..." (Baldwin p. 683)
This quote is from the article, "A Talk to Teachers", and it directly relates to some of the responsibilities that I listed above.  It's important to teach multicultural lessons so that all of the students get to learn about their culture and background. It's important that students feel a sense of home in the classroom. They need to be recognized as a unique individual and their cultures need to be valued.

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- smart
- the future of our society
- capable of learning
- an asset to the classroom and community
- valued in the classroom
- able to express their culture and voice openly in the classroom

"Multicultural competence is directly related
to an understanding of one’s own motives,
beliefs, biases, values, and assumptions about
human behavior" (Weinstein p. 29).

In my future classroom, my students will be my main focus. I want my students to be able to be themselves, express their home life and cultures, and voice their thoughts and opinions.

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I believe the purpose of schooling is...

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I believe the purpose of schooling is...

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- to educate our students to be functional in society.

- to provide students with a voice.

- to encourage the future of our society.

- to be an outlet for students whose home life may not be ideal.

- help inform our students of real world issues.

- to make students more cultured.

- providing every child with education opportunities.

"In and out of the classroom, teachers assume a vital role in ensuring the future of their students and society" (Spring p. 143).

This quote is important because schooling is a way of teachers teaching, educating, and encouraging the future of our society.  Teachers create new leaders, future doctors, future teachers, future business owners, etc.