Blog #2 Adapting to Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Growing up, I felt that teachers judged me by the color of my skin. To me when I was a child, all I could think about was how unfair it was. How can you judge a book by it’s cover without not knowing anything about them. As a teacher, my goal is to teach my students to treat others the way you want to be treated. I believe that teachers should be educated about racism in general as well as racism that occurs in a classroom setting, because it will help them understand what it is and how to use what they learned to solve problems when certain racial situations occurs. I also believe that teachers have to learn how to teach students unbiasedly. I believe teachers should take a class on how to teach students of different background and/or race. So they can teach them as they would another child of the same race as them.

I think that it is important to teach children why they should never judge other children of a different race or background. Children learn from the adult whether the parent or teacher how to treat people. Like for example, there was an African American teacher who worked at my elementary school and some of the other teachers didn’t treat her the same as her other colleagues. The colleagues thought that the children didn’t notice how they were treating her. But what they didn’t know is that it affected the children of color and made them look at those teachers in a different light. Because of this incident, it made me want to change how other teachers treat each other and also change how they treat students as well. It also made me realize that we affect students with our behavior as well as the people around us.

tool tech kit #1

I am going to use google docs in my classroom, because it will help me get power points ready and collect different types of data to share with my students. On google docs you can do so much that I honestly didn't know, for example you can share documents with people. You can blog, can also use maps, I found it interesting that you can use sheets to collect different types of data. I could use sheets to make a goal chart for my students. I'm very excited to learn new ways to teach to my students.

Cize?

What is Cize? Cize is an amazing way to lose weight just by dancing. My mom is always talking about how she wants to lose weight but isn't motivated to do it. So my mom and I went online and was looking up fun work outs that she could try, and that's where we read about Cize. Cize starts in two weeks and they tell you come with a picture of how you look now and later with that picture we are going to compare how we look from when we first started. I'm really excited my mom wants to give it a try and I'm happy she asked me to do it with her.

What if you can't dance? That's ok they said they will teach you step by step and work with you one on one. As you’re learning the dance moves you forget you're doing it to lose weight. I think this is a great way to lose weight because your not going to get bored with the class, the way the have it set up is like your at a dances studio with mirrors all around so everyone can see what's being taught. Something I may have a hard time with is keeping up, because I have no rhythm it may sound crazy but it's true. My mom on the other hand is a dancing machine, so I'm sure this dance class will help a lot. Cize is a eight week of nonstop dancing fun and within those eight weeks you will build confidence that you may have not had before and to me that's life changing. This is definitely going to be an adventure. Wish me luck. I just hope that it really helps my mom and not something that brings her down. I'm excited to meet all the people and make new friends that want to better their life. I think it's going to be a great experience not only for myself but to help others and see them succeeded. My goal is to keep my promise to my mom and not give up, and to stay motivated no matter how hard it gets. All I want to do is make my mom happy and see her succeed and reach her goal in losing weight, but she said it's not about losing the weight it's also keeping the weight off. I think I'm going to be a big help with my mom helping her, like she always would say your always going to be my little helper.

Why pedagogy?

When I was in the third grade I struggled with reading, because in first and second grade I was at a different school where they didn't teach you how to read right away. I spent two years at that school not being taught how to read. When I went back to Monroe Elementary I was scared to read out loud because I knew I couldn't read as fast as the other kids. I thought they would make fun of me, so I would pray that my teacher wouldn't call on me and when she would call on me it took forever to the the words to come out. Of course the other students made fun of me made elementary hell for me, made me not wanna go to school anymore because I was to scared to be made fun of. After the first time it nearly broke my heart and I couldn't take so I would ask my parents if I could stay home. Two weeks later they got me in to  a resource class that taught me the basics of reading and it really helped me. About a couple of months later my reading level went from kindergarten to second grade reading level.
During my experience in elementary school I really enjoyed math, I had this awesome math teacher his name was Matt and he taught us everything. At first I didn't think u was going to enjoy math because of my reading experience and how horrible it was for me. I was proud that I gave math a chance, I really loved it a lot. As my journey through math I learned so many different ways to add  subtract multiply and divide it was amazing I didn't want to stop the learning. What I really liked about Matt was that if you didn't understand something he would stop everything and explain how to do that problem to make sure everyone understands. To me that meant a