From reading the second section of Other People's Children, by Lisa Delpit, I have realized I'm ready to be a teacher. This section that we were required to read was about how the author's eyes were truly opened by traveling to Papua New Guinea and Alaska. She realized who she was and the types of emotions she felt while teaching in those schools. Delpit was used to being the other teacher at home and being in this society that she didn't know much about really opened up her eyes to a new understanding. It was also eye opening to myself as a reader and potential teacher. It was really easy for me to understand that all classrooms are the typical American class room some schools are held in the middle of the village in a "school house", some my not even be English speaking or teach English as an option. I understand that from spending a lot of time in a Hispanic house hold and even being sent to Puerto Rico for summers when I was a young child to stay with my family and learn my heritage, as soon as you step foot off of the USA it really is a whole different world ever though Puerto Rico is a US territory. Things are just different there the kids have it as an option to take English as their language to learn and study, it is not required .Before reading this section of the book I had no clue how many languages there was spoken in Papua New Guinea and how each student was still required to learn English. I am still very proud of my career path I have chosen to take, nothing can change my mind about wanting to become a teacher, if anything these stories we are reading in class are better preparing me. I believe I am ready for anything that comes my way whether it be American students having their dialect of what they believe and were taught English and having to correct it to someone not knowing a single word of English. My past and my teaches will fully prepare me for becoming a successful respected teacher no matter what part of the country I end up in.
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