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Post 1. I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are…

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Post 1. I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are…

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To make sure that my students will learn intellectually, creatively, and also with an open mind to any question. I will be having my students do these by understanding the content that is being used, make sure they have fun learning what they are being taught and how it relates to them, and give them the chance to dispute any answers they wish to give out. As my students deserve to understand the lessons they learn in a formative stance, I will also be letting students put their input on these topics. I will give an open mind to what my students think they should know by prior and post assessments. I believe that a way to do all of this is to really respect and introduce culture into the classroom environment, for children want to learn in an environment they are most comfortable in.
According to Sheets and Gay (1996, pg.9) in the article 'Toward A Conception of Culturally Responsive Classroom Management' called for, "culturally responsive discipline whose ultimate purpose is for teachers to create caring and nurturing relationships with students, grounded in cooperation, collaboration, and reciprocity rather than the current teacher controlling-student compliance patterns." They were saying, the way I understood it, was that using the environment and personal connections to the students' cultures would help benefit the way a student would learn rather than using the same old controlling stances of same environment that's the "basic classroom."

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Is to understand information from a valuable and legitimate source, to which someone could implement into their lives. Without having sources that are legit to back up the topic or idea being taught and let them use this information in the real world, then it's pretty hard to have that/those person(s) to show the connection from what they learned and how to use the information. From the article 'A Framework for Understanding Ruby Payne' (2006/2007), there a statement from Anita Bohn that clearly brings out the point I am trying to make. She says, "Payne and the company she owns, aha! Process Inc., self-publish her books. That means her research does not have to be verifiable, reproducible, valid, or reliable in order to get published" (Volume 21). With this being stated, even some of Payne's book that is published could be falsified, and there doesn't have to be any critiques to it before publishing her books. If this is the case, then children (or adults) could initially retain the wrong information and potentially use this as a resource for what they've learned. Since these books aren't exactly reliable, then this mean that these books are not legitimate. I also believe that learning is about being comfortable in the environment you're learning in because comfortability is what can cause connection and satisfaction. If someone is comfortable in their position as a student or learner, then they are able to appreciate or contain the information for thoroughly. In the American Education 18th edition (2018), Horace Mann mentioned that, "The spread of education, by enlarging the cultivated class or caste, will open a wider area over which the social feelings will expand; and, if this education should be universal and complete, it would do more than all things else to obliterate factitious distinctions in society" (Pg.36). He previously spoke about how education separates the rich and poor as two separate beings that the poor is seen as lower in a general sense. This is what introduces students to not being comfortable or having lower self-esteem in classrooms because of those who have less are worth less. With the two ideas of making education universal, they would bring a better connection to all students and comfortability would be sustained.

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Is when you give the students information that is useful and interesting instead of giving your student what they wouldn't need for their actual lives. Also, I believe that teaching is when you grab the student's attention for an important lesson, and they are receiving the information as it would be important for their lives. Another way I look at this would be knowing that my students are being prepared for the future correctly, instead of neglecting their academic needs. While watching a YouTube video called '

I SUED THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!!' by Prince Ea who talked about this type of negligence being called Educational Malpractice where there is a flaw in the education that the students are being taught, whether it is from the educator themselves or the educational system. I've had this happen to me in real life experience before and it was too late to realize it, so now I want to have all my students gain a better experience then I did. I also believe that teaching is a passion, something that you look forward to every day and are excited to be doing so. As one of my former teachers had stated to us, "Teaching is a passion, not a career. You make it into a career when you start to make yourself feel like you 'have' to teach, not when you want to." This makes sense because if teaching is really something that you were wanting to do for your whole life after college, it should be seen as a passion instead of just a career. If it wasn't for the bad past experiences, the bad news that is shown on television, and all the experiences first hand teaching students, I wouldn't have gained this teaching passion that I always knew I had deep down inside me.

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Post. 4 I believe the purpose of schooling is…

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Post. 4 I believe the purpose of schooling is…

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to show students the realism about the world and how the world works. I firmly believe this is what the purpose of schooling is "supposed" to be because I have honestly understood that there are different ways to teach students about what is to come about their lives, but really, I see horrible stories that treat students as if the world isn't as pretty or progressive as school doesn't make it out to be. Just like in one of our readings about a boy getting punched in the face by a cop. George Galvis stated, “I was 11. There was a fight and I got called to the office. The cop punched me in the face. I looked at my principal and he was just standing there, not saying anything" (Vo.26). After seeing this, I have realized even more how schooling can mean so different to others by the way that they are treated and the experiences they go through. It's just like how personally I went through bullying my whole high school career, specifically from 8th grade up until mid-way my senior year. What bugs me about this is that now I resemble a past experience in school where I thought the outside world will think of me as a weirdo and treat me differently, for my anxiety and awkwardness kicks in. This doesn't stop me from trying though and to become better for my students so they can really gain the best experience about how the world will be. Because in most cases, the world is what you make it to be. To be counterintuitive about my debate on what schooling is, I also just came across a video I watched a while back from a YouTuber named "BoyInABand" called 'Don't Stay In School.' I learned a lot and realized something. Let me watch it again real quick... (3 minutes later)… Wow. I learned something I never thought I would have learned, such as how we never learned "How to do taxes... How to get a job properly... [Nor] understand the human rights" (BoyInABand 2015). This is surprising to me because now going against how I feel about what school is or should be like, now I realized school isn't like this at all (teaching us how to do most real life things), but more about subjects that most of us will not use at all. Okay, going back to the original prompt, I believe the purpose of schooling is to brainwash children on many things that are not important and not progressive to what real life is... But I want to believe that schooling is more about helping our students to understand why we teach these subjects and how they become useful in the everyday world. Enough said from me.

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Post 5. I believe all my future students are...

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Post 5. I believe all my future students are...

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going to be successful, in one way or another. Since we will be teaching younger children (K-6), we can determine their successes in school for how they perceive school to be as. And in the sense of how they also stay in a positive environment. Yes, there are messages that are spread, like how I used the example of 'Don't Stay In School' that tells us that we have a lot to contribute in our student's lives, but that's where we come in and fix most of it! Honestly, reading through week 7's school to prison pipeline articles spoke out to me. Because these articles were so imperative in their messages, there were too many quotes to pull from. I really mean it when I say that when I read these, I couldn't pull a single quote because I would have to pull the whole article out. I do have to say in one of the stories we did read, my attention was caught onto a specific one in the article 'Baby Steps Toward Restorative Justice' by Linea King where these two boys, named Adolfo and Abdi where they got into a physical fight for about a couple of minutes. The reason why this story specifically stuck out to me as very substantial in my learning would be that it showed me that you shouldn't be afraid to talk about something that happens in the classroom, or even just in a personal sense. Even though the students were taken out of the classroom in custody of the police, the welcome back wasn't too harsh and they all got to talk about this incident. I feel the resolution of this story helps with turning around a student's life that could have been worse and facing a prison to pipeline life. This type of resolution shows that an incident like these can change someone's life right there and then. So, in general, taking action as an educator for someone's academic career in incidents like these, or even a little misbehavior can easily alter someone's life of it turning into a bad outcome, or turning the student's life around to make them a better student, a better citizen. I believe all my future students are going to face challenges along the way going through many variants of challenges, but it is for us educators to help steer our students onto the right path and make sure they can see a successful path along their journey.

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Post 6. I believe students learn best when they…

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Post 6. I believe students learn best when they…

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are taught and directed on what they exactly need to know and help them understand why we are teaching them the material. One great example would be the Pledge of Allegiance at the early ages of their schooling. I pull this one out because when I think of having my students understand material taught, they obviously most likely have no understanding of what the pledge of allegiance truly means, especially when today's culture confuses the meaning itself as well. That's why I feel as if the articles we first read at the beginning puts a strong argument. According to the article 'History of the Pledge' on Rethinking Schools (2001/2002), the pledge of allegiance was originally " written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage to the Americas." So, the fact that students don't even know what the pledge was originally written for makes it hard to follow the procedure in a manner of knowing and actually appreciating the pledge. This is just one example of my reasoning on why I believe my students learn best when they are taught the best way possible, and give meaning, to what we give them. A couple of quick examples I would also like to point out would be how the real first Thanksgiving went and a renown one being that Columbus had "discovered" the Americas. These are two events taught to really young children about how glorious they are, when in fact they didn't tell the behind the scenes action. To which mean they are technically, in my opinion, lying to the children.  A couple of quick examples I would also like to point out would be how the real first Thanksgiving went and a renown one being that Columbus had "discovered" the Americas. These are two events taught to really young children about how glorious they are, when in fact they didn't tell the behind the scenes action. To which mean they are technically, in my opinion, lying to the children. I also believe that students learn best when they receive a full amount of attention on both academic and personal life, to know that they are cared for. Surprisingly, with what we have been learning lately about student to prison pipeline, this is very important for children who need it. From the article 'The Classroom to Prison Pipeline' on Rethinking Schools (2011/2012), they said "[School-to-prison pipeline] begins when we fail to create a curriculum and a pedagogy that connects with students, that takes them seriously as intellectuals, that lets students know we care about them, that gives them the chance to channel their pain and defiance in productive ways," (Vo. 26). This backs up my point that especially in the trait of avoiding school to prison pipeline is where we need to give our students the most attention and connection. I believe that students learn best when they are given the full directions and connectivity throughout the classroom by creating an environment that is meant for those children and gives them a voice. I believe these are all three reasons why student learn best.

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Post 7. I believe my students will learn best when I...

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Post 7. I believe my students will learn best when I...

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Teach them the proper aspects of education that is either needed to know in their lives and/or not just test their knowledge solely based on test scores and quizzes. I am a firm believer on this because I went through my 13 years of school learning so much about what never interested me, and what still doesn't. The readings we did for this week kind of helped me understand a generalized solution for my problem, that the students are the central key to education, not us. We are the eye opener to their education yes, but this doesn't mean we are everything that is needed around their education. I have also learned throughout my experiences and in readings that students need to be intrigued in what they do, not sitting there being forced into education that is not needed for students. That's why when going through these readings, it's understandable that students need to know how the real world works, but also learn what they want to learn in a certain subject that could stay in their lives forever. I will never take education away from my students, but I will also never force my students to have to partake in something that doesn't really test their knowledge, unless I might have to. Like how in the previous readings we had to read, our students comes before us and their education is something we need to pay attention to. On a conclusion of this, I also believe students will learn best when I keep my students interest in what they learn so they can keep the information in their minds. If we don't have the aspects of keeping the interests of our students, test how students really know their knowledge instead of tests and quizzes all the time, and also teach what can stay in their lives, then teaching is a waste to students because it shows you don't care about their education all the way.

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Post 8. I believe community/family is...

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Post 8. I believe community/family is...

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a place or are people who can come to your side and help motivate you into doing the right thing. Sometimes when we think of the word "family", we think of the immediate family that we physically have. Well, I also believe that family are those who keep us calm, collected, and help us think through tough times as well. Without a family, you can't have a sense of community. With a family, sometimes you do or don't have a sense of community, then you ask yourself what is your community? But then when you hit peek of family and community, you can feel that sense of community that surrounds your life. Just like in the one article of 'City Teaching: Beyond the Stereotypes' by Gregory Michie, when the one teacher named Dan was sufficiently knowledgeable for his students and he tried to make his classroom feel like a community that needs to learn from what they really wanted to learn, and not go by the standards given to him. With this, he could easily connect with his students by asking them personal questions about real life and society. But, then we see that he also can't keep a hold of his life, to which then he aske for personal help to get up on his feet. In all honesty, I realized that from this, it's important to build a sense of community in your classroom as well so that your students are comfortable in that environment by not just being there to teach, but also being a good figure for the students to follow.

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Participation and listening of everyone's voices of that community that a topic or idea is about. What I mean by this is that the collaboration comes from everyone who is related to that subject being discussed or talked about to ensure everyone's voices are heard about that. Actually, a great topic to get on hand about this prompt would be from the article 'Charter Schools and the Future of Education' by Stan Karp. The reason why I choose this article is that this gives a basis of what my debate about what collaboration is. Let's start off about why collaboration is healthy for a certain topic, such as this charter school system. Let's look into this quote itself, "[Charter schools] were originally conceived as teacher-run schools that would serve students struggling inside the traditional system and would operate outside the reach of the administrative bureaucracy and politicized big city school boards." As we know from this quote alone, that something along the way had happened and communication had a downfall somewhere. When there isn't collaboration in some topic where it involves the whole community, then it's not collaboration more than it is just a Segway to disaster. As we see from this community of parents in New Jersey, "This is why grassroots parents groups like Save Our Schools NJ have been pushing back against unwanted charter expansion that undermines the quality and budgets of district schools," (Vo.28). When one side of the community speaks out about how the topic at hand should be talked about or handled, and the other side (mainly corporations and donors in this topic) argue about it opposite, then there is no collaboration and there is just disaster. That is why I said collaboration is the community associated with the topic at hand all have a voice on how something happens, and in this case for the charter schools, not both sides accommodate for the other, which hints towards no collaboration, just authority.

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Post 10. I believe being a teacher-activist is…

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Post 10. I believe being a teacher-activist is…

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to make sure all of their students are being represented equitably and equally. This means that teachers will fight for their students to have the same and equitable right in their education and politically correcting the stigmas and stereotypes for students. This would mean to not show favoritism for any student and to make sure that all students have the right to have a voice inside and outside their classrooms. All though there has been a lot of activism in trying to have everyone's students' voices heard recently in the past decade, it is imperative for educators to still have this rule of thumb connected into their classrooms because it's not everyday that all students are still being fought for. Actually, history can repeat itself in classrooms today. Something like the incident in 1930 in the United States where there was an educator named Acuña who summed up the educational environment in the article 'From Johannesburg to Tucson' (2012) as, “The mission of the Anglo-American public schools was not to educate, or to create social consciousness, but to condition the newcomer as well as the majority of citizens to accept the corporate society," (Vo.26). If we look at this quote from 1930, what is the difference between this and now? Well, it's illegal for schools or representative of these school to announce that this is the true proclamation of what schools' education is really about. But, it's still the truth if you look deeper, as the pay gap is still different in many ways. That's why educators need to stand up for this type of educational abuse. Another quote to back-up why students' faculty needs to stand up for political correctness for their children would be from Sarah Arvey. She said, “When we’re silent, we close off dialogue and we close the opportunity to learn and grow from each other," (Arvey 2016, Vo.32). As we relook at what she said, it's important to note even students who are quiet about how they feel, or educators who are quiet about the misrepresentation of their students' identities, then it's closing off the gaps of learning exactly what is needed for the public political climate. Going back, I believe that being a teacher-activist is to make sure that all their students are equitably and equally represented in their educational environment, but they are also shown to be the important part of education, including their background an ethnicity to show every student is equally their own individual.