1. My vision of myself as a fantastic teacher is being able to engage students in what I am teaching by making it interactive and interesting. I want to connect the information that I am saying with events, pictures, or anything that can help engage the students in the information I am providing. This means I need to be “highly qualified” and know the information I am teaching inside and out so I can use examples and ways that the information I am using is relevant to the students today. To be a fantastic teacher I believe you have to know the students and the diversity of them, that way when I give examples I am using examples from different cultures and not just one. I also want to try to make my class as comfortable as I can that way the classroom with become a community instead of cliques and disenfranchised students.
2. Loving children means you have a deep emotion for their well being, and to care about the children’s outcome. Wanting to help student’s means to assist them to reach a goal they set. It is also using your knowledge to aid them in any way they need assistance. Another reason I want to teach is because I have been doing it in a variety of ways my whole life without even knowing it. I also want to teach because when I am in a teaching role it is what make me happy and what makes me happier is when the person I am teaching is understanding and gaining more knowledge through what I am teaching.
3. What will sustain me. I believe that loving children will sustain me if I realize everyone has bad days and that everyone wants and needs to be loved. If I let a tough student change my mind, I am not really caring about their future or their well-being, it should become more about them and not me. I think that wanting to help students can change depending on the situation In some cases if I am not familiar with a culture or students I could be doing more harm than good. That is why I think it is so important to know your students that way as a teacher you can help them as much as possible. I think that even if the students are not gaining knowledge from what I am learning I need to step aside and look at the bigger picture, why do they not understand? I would still be sustaining if they do not understand because that just means I need to reword or teach it in a different way. This is more challenging but I think will be more rewarding for me and the students if I never give up and keep trying until one way makes sense.
4. Similarities between the statements are that teachers are the ones helping, assisting, and guiding the students. The differences on love and help are what the teacher gets from it. The prospective of Darling-Hammond is what the student gets out of it. It is based around the student’s best interest.
11.Dale Spender spoke out about how women are not received as a problem because they were invisible. Since women were invisible she focused on how if you want something done you have to do it yourself. To me it is hard to think of a time where women were invisible not able to learn like men did. When I read quotes from feminist and the one by Dale Spender I think of breaking through the norm. I could take out women and just use invisible and think that some students today are still invisible, from the child being left out on the play ground, a Spanish speaking person in an English speaking school, or a student who is in poverty. It is when people make a stand change can occur.
12. The main purpose of school is to create a safe environment for students to learn, and gain behavioral and social aspects for the future. The purpose serves to a diverse society by creating a new community and environment, where they are safe to learn and grow. The purpose relates to a social stratified society by creating a safe environment so the students can let their guards down and participate. The teacher starts by creating a safe environment by creating trust so the students feel comfortable. When the students feel comfortable they are more eager and ready to learn because of the safety and trust the teachers can make in the classroom.
13. As a teacher I envision myself creating a classroom where students can come and learn in a safe environment. I strive to create a community in the classroom that builds off trust this allows me to get know my students. By getting to know my students I will gain knowledge of the best way to teach the class by knowing what examples to give them that connection to the information and make sure the examples is relevant to the students today. By knowing who they are and the cultures and background of the students it allows to move new information into the classroom so I am not only focused on one type of culture and neglecting others. One of the most important things is engaging students in what I am teaching by making it interactive and interesting by adding in pictures and examples. This will also help the visual learners by reinforcing the information in a way they can understand best. To be the best teacher I need to be “highly qualified” and know the information I am teaching inside and out.