Anti Racism vs. Culturally relevant
Over the past couple of weeks we've been talking about anti racism vs. culturally relevant, but my question is how do we as teachers handle a child who is that is being? How do we acknowledge racism in the class room without offending our students of color? When talking about racism I find it a hard topic to talk about because some people didn't do all the research on the topic and trying to talk to the class about it they honestly may not know what it is there really talking about and that may offend someone. Sometimes we don't like to be reminded about what happened in the past because honestly some people don't want to think about it or have the mind set that it happened in the past why are we bring it up? I know because I used to think that way in high school, but as I got older what happened in the past is what got me where I am today. I want to be able to talk to my students about it and how powerful it was and what people had to go through to get us all where we are today. I want to do a project with my students and see what there dreams are. Like Marten Luther King said" I have a dream." Well so do our students and with that being said that's one of my goals in life is to help children find there dream and to stick with it until they meet their dreams. Think about your childhood and ask yourself what was your dream growing up? Did you make your dream and if no why not? When I was a little girl all I wanted to do was become a teacher to help young children who have a disability. I've had so many teachers over the years that I wasn't going to be able to do it, I always thought it was because I was black to be honest, but here I am today working at New Horizon helping young children meet their goals.
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