Ch. 4 Learning Log

What?

While reading chapter four and listening to the lecture I learned quite a few things about group differences. One thing that stuck out to me was how a teachers preconceived motions about students' determine how the studnet is treated. This is where you as a teacher need to evaluate yourself and note where you need to change and be careful, and realize that not one child doesn't fit into a group. This affects children drastically because often how well they perform is based on how safe they feel and seeing if the teacher thinks they can acheive hard things. We need to know the types of studnets in our class and from what backgrounds they orginate, so that in instruction and clss rules accommodations can be made. Not everyone has the same cultural beliefs and what is expected of students' need to be made explicit from the beginning. By knowing which students have to switch cultures from home to school would help you assess behavior and be more understanding. Bring new cultural insights into the classromm so that studnets of a certain ethnicity fell comfortable and strong in a area. Be a support system for students who parents aren't involved and try to be a motivator. By you caring it could help change one studnets' outlook on their troubling situation and start believing in themselves.

So what?
This chapter and the information in it is important for me to know as a future teacher in many ways. Since I want to work in a school with much diversity I'll need to understand the cultural views my studnets' have and help them look outside the box but be supportive as well. I;ll need to treat each studnet equal and make them all feel accepted and cared for. This way the will learn much more. This chapter is a part of the syllabus, because as individuals its important to be accepting of cultures different then ours and its people. With the world changing in ethnicity that means our classes will change also. We can help students' with differnet ethinicitys fell like other studnets' and not as a group name. Educate a new generation that will be more accepting of everyone around and the roles they play. This will help me to be a great teacher becaue I'll be loving to all types of children abd help each one as much as I can. By looking for those that fell isolated because of gender, ethnicity, intelligence and help them and the whole class by using morning mettings.

Now What?
I'll use this information in my future teaching by having morning meetings to make the class fell they are as one. By getting to know one another better will make each student not want to hurt eachother.More problems will be handled through being kind because they will all be closer to eachother. I'll teach my students' about differences and why it makes us special and important. I still need to learn which is the best wayto bring up family and other cultural beliefs that may contradictory without questioning students' as much. Also i need to learn about what ethnic groups value and think disdisrespectful, so I'll never be offensive or put a child down.