Responding to “What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, feel like in your future classroom”? While looking at this article, I realized that in schools, teachers need to have more of a connection with students to make the school year better. I believe having a relationship with a student will let them be more accepted into the classroom. Also, having the students have their opinions and a voice is an excellent way to get involved. Having an open classroom where someone can have a voice is a perfect way for them to share. I think students should talk about their backgrounds. Students should learn more about their experience and the exciting things they might find about their history. I think letting the students look more into their knowledge will make them grow as a student.
As a teacher, I’m going to contribute to the sense of place for my students by teaching them more about their community and its environments. I, as a teacher, am going to help them not forget where they came from. I believe students should grow up knowing where they came from and their background. Students should know more about where they grew up and the lands around them—having students learn about their community and the hard work put into the town, city or village. Lastly, teaching them how to be great in the world.
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Hey Gabrielle!
I really enjoyed reading your work. I totally agree with you that teachers need to make more connections with their students. I am a strong believer that this is one of the most important goals of becoming a teacher. I also liked your point about letting students look more into their knowledge. I think this is super important for a lot of the time we do not let students think for themselves and just force thoughts and opinions on them. I think you are going to be a really amazing teacher!
Hey Gabrielle,
I completely agree with you about how important relationships are with students when trying to create a more diverse environment within our classrooms. I really like the point you made on ensuring our students feel as though they have a voice, that they feel comfortable speaking up, engaging in classroom conversations and sharing their history, culture and opinions!
Thanks, Nikki
Hello Gabrielle,
I enjoyed reading your forum post about creating a sense of place in the classroom for the students you will teach. A comment that you made was the idea of making a connection with the students and that it can make the student more comfortable in the classroom. I totally believe in the idea of this and I think students being welcomed into the class is a great way of getting more participation and corporation with the students.