Class 12
EDUC 201 - Jadyn
GROUP FORMATION TODAY :)
Agenda
- Sign In
- Midterm Passback & Final Info
- Themes To Date
- Going back to Privilege
- Group Presentations
Midterm Feedback & Final Note
- Go through Midterm, check comments (4 min max)
- Final will be a project, tied to your placement experience
- It must be the equivalent of 4000 words of writing, but preferably NOT a paper
- It can be a website, a Smore, a FB page, or anything else that you can dream up
- Must incorporate the themes we've covered in class and how they apply to your placement experience.
- Consider how the themes were/were not addressed in your placement sites, and how you would change things if you could.
- More details to come very soon.
Themes to Date
The weeks so far have had themes:
- Good school vs. bad school
- Who am I? Who are you? Why teach?
- Mattering
- Gender expression & sexuality
- Accessibility
- Cultural Connectedness
- Difference & Diversity
- LGBTQ
- White Privilege
- History, Identities, & Communities
- Assimilation & Exclusion
Keeping each of those themes in mind as we discuss today...
Going Back to Privilege...
- I feel that your perspective of privilege affects everyone in a classroom environment because your belief of privilege makes you look at people differently.
- I'll look at anything I'm provided to better teach my students, and to better accommodate for them, but I struggle to understand how my privilege would or should affect my classroom.
- Going through the list, I did not realize how many of these things I take for granted and how POC might not be able to mindlessly complete what we consider to be simple everyday tasks. We need to appreciate the privilege that we are given and use it to vocally praise the works of POC and stand with them as family, not just watch them fight. This is something to keep in mind when working in a classroom, remembering we need to be there for our students and fight for them if they don't have the same privileges we have.
- I will be there to help guide and give advice and give all students the same opportunities to learn and be successful in life.
- I feel that in this day and age, everyone, no matter gender, race, ethnicity, etc., has the same opportunity to be successful and follow their dreams. There are so many opportunities out there so if you have a dream then follow it.
- I had never thought about how some children do not have Barbie’s or even role models with the same skin tone as them. In school, we always talk about racism. Typically, the idea of privilege is not brought up. I think this needs to change in schools. Since people who have privilege do not always realize they have it, I believe it is something important that should be brought up. This will affect my classroom because knowing that others don’t have the same or equal advantages will make me more compassionate and empathetic towards everyone.
- Naturally, no one wants to lose the power they have, whether they recognize how it’s come to them or not. Now knowing this, I’ll keep this in mind as I perhaps face situations like this in future workplaces. Maybe I’ll be able to place others in positions of power over myself, an action I’d be very comfortable in doing to ensure a more equal environment for all.
- She also says that white privilege is invisible, which I also agree with because most people who have this privilege don't acknowledge it or do anything to change it, people just act like it isn't happening.