Teacher in America

Final Paper My C on the whole To natural influenceion More than ever, I turn over that my focalize is in the enlightenroom. I consecrate directly consummate(a)d two and a fractional years of program line and be in possession of had a cope of emotions and questions running through me. fewmagazines they do me question whether I should be in the classroom or non. I mean, how kitty I be a in noneffervescenter and admit e rattling these blackball mentations and tactile propertys ab protrude how our instill system ladders. I conception I was solely in feeling this elan. However, from the readings, reflections and discussions during the course of this class, I do instantly realized I am non al mavin in feeling this course.In fact, nigh t from separately oneers harbour the aforesaid(prenominal) apprehensions that I shargon. One major topic I withdraw noticed since becoming a teacher is how my views on pedagogy occupy changed. Before I became a teacher I sorbd things about education that ar not at all correct. I thought that when I became a teacher, it would be in reality easy. After all, my teachers (and mother) make it beguilem fairly easy. I was wholly wrong. I thought I would be able to stand up there, teach and all single student would visualize what I would be teaching. I thought all the students would do their mold, be fuck off and learn to me.Boy was I mis simulaten. There be so umteen different learning styles that I clear to accommodate for, different activities I have to baffle up with in order to spark the students interests, and behaviors I neer dreamed I would have to act up with. I am only into my ordinal year of teaching I have been teaching for only three years, and each year I have had to prep ar changes to accommodate the types of students I have. Some teachers assume the students will be the uniform all(prenominal) year and do not experience changes at all. The learning process for each individual student is different.For some, it jazzs easier, for others it can be might be a itty-bitty more difficult. Teachers who develop classroom plans base solely on beliefs and expectations born of their admit keep experiences are desirely to be ineffective (Hinchey Pg. 23). almost of us became teachers because someplace in our past we had a really good experience with inculcate and our teachers. skilful because what we experienced was good does not inevitably mean that the same exact thing would discipline with our students today. I k right off that I catch myself looking back to when I was the same age as my students.I am often trying to do things with my students that my teachers did with me. non surprisingly, a lot of them are not sounding as I thought they would. Before my first day of teaching, I had true expectations for my students. Starting off with the same expectations that my teachers had for me is not feasible where I teach. Most public work teac hers come from significantly different cultures than their students (Hinchey pg. 27). I know I have had to completely ad vindicatory my way of thinking in the classroom because my educational experience is the complete opposite of what I teach.When I was a student, my friends and I had complete support from adults in our lives. Today, my students impregnablely have any(prenominal) adults around them outside of shallow guiding them in the right direction. When I was in high school, there was no question about receiving your high school diploma and vent to college. In my community, a high school diploma alone was not good large, you ingested to reward that college degree. In the district I work in, the atmosphere is different. In Waukegan, volume act care earning the high school diploma is golden.One big assumption of mine that has changed in my short three years of teaching is thinking all students are the same outside of school. When I was growing up, it seemed that my l ife and my friends lives where all the same. Consequently, I grew up civilize for granted that everyone lives where a mirrored image of mine. training opened my eyeball up to see how wrong I was. I have some students who come from a love home with two working parents, and wherefore I also have some students who are homeless because both parents are in prison.As teachers, we are told to treat every student the same, plainly that is completely impossible. all(prenominal) student has his or her bear apologue and each of those stories needs to be tempered differently. I have also questioned my give birth judgment on what it factor to be well educated. Being well education should not only preserve to what is wise to(p) inside of a school building, scarcely also what is lettered outside of the school walls. I have a lot of students who are educated about topics that are not covered be a school curriculum, so should I cypher that knowledge to be worthless because they did not learn it in a classroom?Is your education measured on what you are taught or what you return? If it is based on what you remember, then most of American can fall into the category of being uneducated. The nous forgets what it does not use. In fact, it is impossible to remember everything you have been taught. There is not enough space in the brain to take for all those facts. Lastly, Students from sorry communities often have their own very strong leaven that schooling is not likely to sacrifice a significant difference in their own lives (Hinchey pg. 24). I hear students parley like this everyday in my classroom.I evermore hear how is this going to apply to my life, its not like I am going to college anyway. These students think there is no try for for them. As a teacher, how am I supposed to change the minds of 15 and 16 years olds when this is what they have been told their whole lives? This is a battle that those of us who teach in urban schools fight everyday. Ye s, I believe it is historic to educate our students on academics, provided I believe it is more important teach our students how to set realistic goals for themselves. Goals they are truly able to obtain.One major drawback of school is the way it is structured. School has a one size fit all curriculum, which doesnt work. There are so many another(prenominal) another(prenominal) different learning styles with students. Schools need to come up with a unique way to be able to aid each student in his or her own learning style. Schools also incline like factories, which isnt a surprise because they were founded when the boorish moved more towards an industrialized economy. Students, near like factory workers, have l realize the process of lining up, walking in straight lines and staying quiet for long periods of time.Is this how schools should be? Schools have been functioning this way for decades. If we made changes, would it benefit or harm schools? If all it takes to succeed is hard work, then woeful state must be lazy. passing(a) I tell my students that if they want to be successful in life they need to work hard. However, this does not mean that race are poor in force(p) because they neer worked hard. In fact, poor people work harder than most rich people. Most poor people work several sectionalisation time wrinkles averaging 50-60 hrs a week at a minimum wage rate.They work more hours than a middle class person, moreover still make a lot less money. Next time you go out to eat, pay help to who is working hard, for minimum wage, in the kitchen. earlier than believing economic success comes from hard work, and failure from laziness, students must ask what to a fault laziness might explain wherefore so many families are animation in poverty and why the widening chasm between our wealthiest and poorest citizens. It is my telephone circuit to get my students to believe that they can meet their goals, if they are ordain to put the effort i nto it.However, because of the struggles seen at home, many of them cannot see their future in a positive way. My students liven in a poor community and that know a lot of people who have earned their high school diploma but cannot find a dainty art close by to where they live. If they want a decent job they have to trigger off far. Sadly, many of them do not have a car and their only means of transportation is the metropolis bus. As a result, it may take over an hour for them to get to work so many of them do not take the job. As someone who has had a car since I turned 16, I do not know what it is like to struggle without a car.Twenty miles does not seem far to me, but to someone who doesnt have his or her own means of transportation, it could be excessively much of a hassle than what the job is worth. I know understand why people do not take job offers that are a certain distance from their home. This trickles down to the teenagers. Its no ask they think it doesnt theme if they work hard, they wont find a decent job anyway. I never considered myself privileged just because I was white. However, since reading Hinchey, I now realize how much easier my life is just because of my skin excuse.Before I started teaching I was mostly around Caucasian people people who are just like me. I was able to go shop without being harassed. I was able to take any job I cherished without having people think I got the job only because of my skin color. Basically, I never had to worry about anything. Now that I work (and live) in a city where a mass of the population is either Hispanic or African American, my eyes have been opened to how people of color are mistreated. My students see and experience this in their everyday lives. I am fight on how to teach my students how to overcome this.As of now, I have not figured out a way. One thing that my students have pointed out to me, as well as Hinchey, is that white people hold most of the power in our country. A majority of CEOs, politicians and even every president, until President Obama, has been white. No wonder my students think they will perpetually come arcminute to the white man, they have only known white people to be in charge. This class has been very beneficial in my teaching practices. As a new teacher I feel I am still naive about certain things that relate to school. I have unceasingly try to teach my students to the best f their abilities. sometimes I would be scotch because they went avaricious certain basic concepts. I now view learning, teaching, school and society in a completely different way than I did before starting this class. I am now less frustrated with my students since learning more about their annals and thoughts towards education. My whole thought on how schools are operated has also changed. The current ways that schools function is not conducive to help the students in urban schools in any way. It is actually harming them. As teachers, we need to take a stand and fight for what is best for our students.As an educator, I am teaching for each and every one of my students. I am educating them not only on academics, but life issues. They are 1 and everyone or everything else comes second to that. As teachers, we have every and any obstacle to overcome that one could imagine. We actually do not have the cosmos behind is pushing us preceding we have it in front of us pushing us backwards. Right now, I would like to challenge myself that, no matter what hurdles I may come across in my practice, that I ceaselessly fight for my students to put them first and always have whats best for them in mind.