https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg Elizabeth Orr en-us 2019-01-09 18:38:48 UTC 2019-04-03 03:06:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/318958863 1. I believe my responsibilities as a teacher are to not only prepare my students for the next grade academically, but also socially. I want my students to be able to create positive relationships in my classroom and know that they can come to me with anything. 
2. I believe that learning happens in many different ways, and in many different settings. I don't believe learning is a cookie cutter, but rather play doh or molding clay, that can be shaped and shifted to fit each student's needs.
3. I believe that teaching is similar to learning, in that it looks different on different people. The methods that I accumulate and cultivate may not work for another teacher, but are ultimately successful in my classroom.
4. I believe the purpose of schooling is to prepare students for the world they live in, not only for future education, but socially as well. 
5. I believe all my future students are capable of learning and that they all, on some level, want to learn.
6. I believe students learn best when they feel comfortable and supported, and when they are able to demonstrate their knowledge in their own learning styles.
7. I believe my students will learn best when I support their thinking and ideas by integrating them into my lessons.
8. I believe community/family is a group of people committed to creating a positive environment for all. 
9. I believe collaboration is everyone in a group coming together to create an overall idea or collective thoughts and feelings. 
10. I believe being a teacher-activist is more than supporting your students when conflict arises; to me it's protecting/watching over your students to prevent conflict.

]]> 2019-01-09 19:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/318958863 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321858773 4. I still believe that the purpose of schooling is to prepare my students for what's to come. This looks different in every grade, and it may look different every year, with the way the world can change ever so quickly. Chapter 1 states explicitly the political goals of schooling, and I noticed one of them was emphasizing the importance of voting, but not informed voting. I feel as if that's the biggest issue, we tell students what to do, but not why and how best to do it. We give them a big picture without any detail and expect them to figure it out on their own. I want to give my students as much detail as possible. It's time to invest in our students, both with our time, and our funds, not for our political agendas. ]]> 2019-01-17 18:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321858773 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859399 6. I still believe that students learn best when they feel comfortable and when they can use what they know, or one could say funds of knowledge, to express their learning. In the text it discusses students feeling like they have to act white in order to succeed and I would agree that this is definitely an issue seen today. This, among other reactions, lead to low academic effort syndrome, according to Ogbu. This is the exact opposite of comfortability, and it honestly upsets me and gets me thinking about how my future multicultural students might feel in my classroom. ]]> 2019-01-17 18:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859399 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859453 1. I still believe that my responsibilities as a teacher are to prepare my students academically and socially, for the world they live and grow up in. I wholeheartedly agree, from the text, that we do not have a child problem, we have a parent problem. Just from my volunteer hours, work in classrooms, and own schooling, I’ve experienced parents who could not have cared less about not only their student, but their student’s education. In this way, I see that my view may have changed a little, as I now see that my biggest responsibility will be becoming an advocate for my students, especially those who do not have someone considering them at home. ]]> 2019-01-17 18:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859453 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859494 9. My thoughts about collaboration in relation to being an educator have changed slightly after this week's reading on Culturally Responsive Classroom Management. Examples of miscommunications woven in were African-American male students getting taken to the principal's office for their traditional conversation, and Southeast Asian students smilling when reprimanded. This is where collaboration as an educator becomes important. Collaborating with your students to not only understand their "normal", but to work with it in the classroom. These unfortunately common misconceptions and miscommunications could then easily be avoided in the classroom.]]> 2019-01-17 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859494 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859561 10. I still believe being a teacher-activist is more than supporting your students when conflict arises. But I also now believe that it's even more than protecting/watching over your students to prevent conflict. My thoughts were so narrow minded at the time. For one, I was thinking only on my multi-cultural students, thinking more on equality, rather than equity. Also, I absolutely hate that I focused on conflict, as I see that as deficit thinking now. In my classroom, every student will be advocated for in whatever way they may need. In relation to the colorblindness article, I am worried about my attempts going awry and becoming more equal than equitable, and not taking their race into account, based on my perceptions. Overall, I think it all goes back to the relationships you build with your students. You'll learn rather quickly what they need from you and on what level. ]]> 2019-01-17 18:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321859561 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321887368 5. I still believe that all of my students will be capable of learning and will want to learn. The difference now is that I understand better what that means to me. Reading chapter 2 of For White Folks really resonated with me. I definitely would’ve been that teacher subconsciously categorizing students in my head as teachable or not, before this class. Knowing what I know now, I can see how that process only makes the school to prison pipeline more accurate. By categorizing these students as teachable or not, we look for behaviors, big or small to coincide with what we’ve deemed as teachable or unteachable. I now believe that ALL my students are teachable, and I understand that my job is to reach to them to make it work for them. ]]> 2019-01-17 19:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321887368 elaorr2 https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321887842 8. I still believe that community/family is a group of people committed to creating a positive environment for all. When reading Chapter 5 from For White Folks, I really got into the story about blending in with the students on the first day and how he mocked the professor for being tardy with his students. I appreciated how he admitted that it created a divide between him and his students when he didn’t directly address their shock when he introduced himself as the professor they had all just mocked together. Specifically the quote, “The tensions I felt when it became clear that I was not culturally aligned with my students can be felt by any educator who does not share the same cultural background as their students”, stuck out to me because I know as a white educator, if I walk into a diverse classroom and try to ignore the elephant in the room, my students will not respect me, or feel as connected with me, versus if I were to acknowledge our different cultures. This chapter was honestly my favorite thus far, and has really shaped how I’ll respond in my overall Philosophy of Teaching. ]]> 2019-01-17 19:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elaorr2/97mpln78yrcg/wish/321887842