Oct. 17, 2014

I have been doing a lot of reading lately to figure out if teaching is really the right career path for me, including a lot in the New York Times. The article with the link at the bottom of this post is what scares me about becoming a teacher. Everything that Delpit has been speaking about in her book is really starting to open up my eyes are reach out to other resources. In the two chapters that were assigned for the week, "Cross-cultural Confessions in Teacher Assessment" and "The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse"it discusses the real life issues that Delpit ran into and a possibility of what a teacher candidate is possible of running into in their future.
The standardized tests and what they do to the students and teachers isn't fair but its the way the government tests its students. Every school, every teacher, and every student have a different teaching and learning capability then the school a town over, the teacher in the class room across the hall, or the student in the desk behind you. Everyone is different and the teachers are supposed to be teaching the students the same things so they can all pass these standardized tests. Not all students are on the same level as others and that hard for the government to help and fund. they want us all to be the perfect school with the perfect teachers and students, but in reality there is no such thing as perfect. The school in the article attached below is far from perfect they are barely keeping they school open yet they are still doing the best for their students because that's all they can do.



http://nyti.ms/1sPbohJ

Oct.3

In reading chapters four and five of Other People's Children, by Lisa Delpit I have come to think of the education system in America in a different way then before. I have learned that not all schools are like the ones we grew up in. I went  to a almost all white school from pre-k to eight grade and many of not most of those kids were very privileged. Since being at college I have really experienced such diversity, no I am not shocked about this but its just a new group of people I get to meet and learn about that I would never get at home. I defiantly agree with Deplit that the way many schools teach diversity is inappropriate. I was the only Hispanic student in my grade until I had gotten to high school and then there was maybe eight out of almost seven hundred students.  I can not recall on one memory of learning about Hispanic culture.

Before reading this section of the book I had never realized how the minority participation in teaching was diminishing.If anything that is the reason I want to become a teacher, not many minorities teach. Never growing up did I ever have a black or Hispanic teacher, it took all the way until high school for me to even have a male teacher and I went to public school my entire life.

Inside my classroom I want to inform my students of all cultures and the different types of learning styles they have I believe that it is very important for children to have background on the world they are living in.I feel more informed on what is going on in the world after reading this section of the book, it has definitely changed y mind about my career path, it makes me want to become a teacher even more. I want to educate the world on diversity if I could.