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I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are…

From my experiences I believe that students should be able to learn in a non-threatening environment, where they would feel safe to ask questions, or speak up in class, and most of all be able to present to other classmates. I think that when you relate lessons and concepts to everyday life you will get a student that wants to listen and wants to learn about what you are teaching. I want a classroom where students don’t want to leave for any reason where they are having fun and enjoying what they are learning. I want to being culture into my room, I want them to learn about different ethics and culture because I didn't have that when I was kid and I think that it is very important to teach a children about this topic at a young age.

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I believe that learning…

I believe that learning should be fun

I believe that learning should be exciting

I believe that learning is social and should happen with other people or in a group

I believe that learning should be active not lectures

I believe that learning should be hands on not out of a textbook

I believe that learning should be connected to world or to the children themselves

I believe that learning should involve students talking back and forth not just the teacher talking and the kids listening

I believe that learning should involve other cultures

I believe you should learn about your student’s culture.

I believe that parents should have the right to decide how there child learns (choosing schools)

I believe that learning happens everyday

I believe that I am still learning to this day

I believe the when you stop learning you are dead.

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I believe that teaching…
I believe that teaching shouldn't be based off of test scores. According the the article teaching in Dystopia. "we are being tested to death". I believe that i really do, so many teachers are so forced on test scores because thats what it has come to, so student are not getting what they need to go out in the world, they are being taught one thing. because of this they have lost other subjects like science and history. The article states that "testing has resulted in an average weekly lost of 76 minutes of social studies instruction, 75 minutes of science instruction, 57 minutes of arts and music, 45 minutes of recess, and 40 minutes of physical education." Thats a lot of time away from other subjects. I also believe that someone shouldn't be allowed to tell you how to teach or what to teach, if they don't know what students need. I also believe that the test should be fair. We have student that are coming into our classrooms that may speak little to no English and they are expected to take a test that is all in english. We are setting them up to fail and thats just wrong.

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I believe all my future students are…
I believe that all my future students have a chance, they will have a chance to learn, ot explain something, to tell me what is going on, I will not turn a student a away for any reason. I dont want my students to think that I have given up on them, i want them to know that i will fight for them. From what i have read between last week and this weeks article is that teachers are sending student to bad futures because they take one look at their record and decide that they are not good enough. Im not saying that they do this on purpose or even know they are. I believe it is my job as a teacher to teach "multicultural competence is directly related to an understanding of one’s own motives, beliefs, biases, values, and assumptions about human behavior" (Toward a Conception of culturally Responsive Classroom Management).I feel that students should be aware of the different cultures out there and the basis people have about them. It is out job to help them see that.

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I believe students learn best when they...
Students learn best when teachers are not afraid to step out of their confront zone. I think Howard Zinn from the article A Pedagogy of Resistance said it best. " The first thing teachers have to do is make a decision for themselves that they will not be obedient in staying within the boundaries that are usually set by principals, school administrators, and parent-teacher associations". What he means by that is that fact that we as teachers have to be wheeling to teach students about what is going on in the world. I believe that students learn best when they are learning about something in there community or if you connect it to something that affects them. I understand not everything you teach will be apart of every student but we should try and connect it to most of them. Zinn talks about how we keep teaching about the same heroes, its time for a change its time to talk about other heroes, he gives examples, we could talk about the war that is going on or how the government is trying to take a rain forest and people are trying to save it. We should use everyday things in our lessons, not things that were taught in the 60s we need to move forward.

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I believe my students will learn best when I…
When I'm learning beside them or learning about them. I feel that if I'm sitting there and learning from them it shows them that you never stop learning and even as an adult, it shows them that adults don't know everything. I know as a teacher that I will have students that have disabilities that’s no secret, it’s my job to learn what those disabilities are and how I can help that student. , I feel that the one thing I can teach my students that there difference out there, that not everyone is going to be the same, we all have something or everything that is different about us. I know that the one thing that I will have to explain to other students are the students that have disabilities because they don’t understand. In Chapter 5 of our book it states that” within the context of equality of educational opportunity, students with special needs could equally in schools with other students only if they received some form of special help”. How would you explain that to a student why one student is getting more attention than they are? I feel like students need to learn about this stuff and yet for some reason parents and schools try to shield their child from it. While students are learning about what I’m teaching them, I’m learning about them, I want them to see that I am paying attention to them that I am willing to learn next them, I want them to feel like I care and know that I care about their learning and only what is best for them. I can’t say exactly how my students will learn best until I myself get to know them, so I can know what works for them and what doesn’t.

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I believe community/family is…
When teaching our jobs don't end when the bell rings and the students leave, our job never ends and I’m not talking about grading papers or making new assignments I mean we as teachers should go out into the communities and get to know that, so we can get to know our students. Our students are the community, how can you truly know your student if you are not out their getting to know something that is them. School try to help and bring together the community they do that through extracurricular activities. In chapter 2 of the book it states that A key element in building a sense of community was extracurricular activities.  This will help students get to know one another but also help you get to know our students. We as teachers should be asked to join in on the rallies they have. if not then you are not doing your job.
Family is an important thing to have you should support the parents coming in and wanting to see their child, but we should not judge the ones that don’t because we don’t know what their home life is like. One thing that I like that the book states is that a fundamental aspect of multicultural education is that different students have different ways of knowing and seeing the world. I find this to be true, not every student will understand that there are differences out there. What I want to do is have parents that want to come in and talk about their culture with their child. I want them to the students whatever they want within reason (like killing animals things like that). Have them bring in a dish if they want for the students anything. I feel like this would help the students better understand the world and have a different take on it.

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I believe the purpose of schooling is…
I believe the purpose of schooling is to help students in this society, help them to succeed at life, but we know that is just a dream. Not every student will succeed because of school. Schools are helping some but not everyone. We don't know how to teach students about current event because we feel like we will start something that we don't know how to put back in the bag. School should make it a requirement to have teachers teach about current event. Like this weeks reading, we are reading about prison pipelines. In an article it states that "school-to-prison pipeline is turning too many schools into pathways to incarceration rather them opportunity"(Stop the school-to-prison pipeline). Schools are making it harder for students to succeed, schools are starting to put more and more cops into the schools, so pretty much every hallway as a cop. There was one fact that shock me in the article that was "more than 7 million children have a family member incarcerated, on probation, or on parole" (Stop the school-to-prison pipeline). Thats a-lot, from what I understand schools don't take that into consideration when a child gets into trouble. Another thing that I don't like about schools is the zero tolerance, I grew up with that in my schools and from what I notice it got a-lot of people in trouble. The zero tolerance policy requires school officials to hand down specific, consistent, and harsh punishment usually suspension or expulsion when students break certain rules. In the article it talks about Robert an 11 year old boy who was running late and put pants on and he didn't know that there was a pocket knife in his pocket and he didn't know that it fell out and when the teacher asked the students who's knife this was and came forward, because of this he was arrested, suspended, and transferred to a disciplinary school. The school didn't listen to what he had to say they just assumed and the sad truth is that this is what school worry about now, they think they are helping the child and the school but they are not they are hindering that child. School should worry about a-lot more than that.

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I believe collaboration is…
I believe that collaboration is an important thing to have in your classroom, not just with other teachers but with students as well. As I was reading chapter 5 For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, I came across co-teaching. When I first heard this word, I thought it was going to be talking about something we are going to be doing, going into a classroom and student teach with a fellow classmates. It kind of is like that but what the book states is that "teachers cannot fully meet the needs of students unless the students have an opportunity to show the teacher what they need and then demonstrate what good teaching looks like for them". I think this is a great way of collaboration among you and your students. How are you going to truly know your students if you they don't tell you what they need? I feel like if I could have demonstrated to my teachers what good teaching looks like from my point of view then maybe I wouldn't have struggled in some classes. If you are going to do this with students you have to make sure they have everything they need, they will need the same resources that teachers have access to.
Another thing that you can do is get the family involved sometimes they can help with that student, they can tell you what is happening at home and how that student acts when he or she has to do something. Family collaboration is so important in your classroom you want the student’s family to be involved with your classroom so you can get a better understanding of that students life. Our job doesn't end when the bell rings at 2:50.

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I believe being a teacher-activist is…
I believe that teacher-activist is someone who challenging all kinds of social priorities, and provide social justice for  public education. From the article activism is good teaching it states that "we must speak against policies and leadership decisions that undermine our work and devalue our expertise about children and learning".
As a teacher we should act as activists for our students and their family, we should try and get to know our students and their family. We should want to help them and figure out a way to help their family if needed. We need to understand that not all students learn the same and that we should try to find something that does work for that student. We visited another school for math and they have this student where if he stays in a classroom to long he gets anxious so they let him come when ever he wants to and they greet him and tell him that they missed him. They helped a kid out, I feel like if we did that in the school that we are in now the students would get yelled at for being in a different room or just in the hall. We need to listen to our students and we need to know what to do for them adn what is best for them.