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About Me
- Z.
- I truly believe in humanity and our individual capacity to connect to the world. However, I think it is difficult for people to move outside of the bubbles they, and society, have created. For this reason, how we connect with the world will be diverse...good and bad. I am an educator working on a PhD in teacher education. I do this because I know change can happen, but knowledge is key and what we value as knowledge is complex. I am grounded in issues of social justice and critical pedagogy. If we are to see an end to oppression (in all forms) it will happen at the grassroots level NOT from the top down. I am a teacher, and I believe teachers DO make a difference. Because of this, how we engage with the world and our own knowing is vital.
I would describe the ideal teacher as someone who has been given the tools upon graduation that would allow for her to be able to produce an environment that encouraged learning. It would also be someone who would be able to allow the students to take ownership of their learning objectives, similar to the IEP,only for the entire class.
ReplyDeleteI know this because I have worked in a very diverse classroom, with many different learning styles, levels of knowledge, and abilities. I also feel that most of the time by following the demanded curriculum that sometimes it was difficult to teach something that the students weren't interested in learn. If I were to give them the assignment to teach me about the subject I believe that with the use of technology they could have gathered enough data to become experts at the subject. So much so that they could have tested each other on questions that they felt were important information to know.
So in a way I guess I'm somewhat saying that the teacher needs to be teachable also.