Blog 7

Today we talked about the pedagogy and for some reason I felt uncomfortable. When we were talking about the different systems like for example the banking system. One of my questions in our small group was, how do teach our students the system without overwhelming them? When I was student growing up I questioned my learning because I was always overthink everything I did. So I as a teacher I'm going to try not to overwhelm my students because I know how it feels. We also talked about a course on campus American Indian. I took that class a couple of semesters ago and learned a lot. We talked about how the class was being taut by the teacher and I got upset because to me it seemed as if they were talking badly about the teacher, when they were really talking about how we should watch our words. For example the teacher uses words like "we and you did this." When as a student we didn't do anything we are trying to learn some thing new about that culture. As teachers when talking about race it's a taught topic to talk about, but it still needs to be talked about so our students understand what really happened back in the day. When hearing about other people sides on how they feel its okay to ask why do you feel this way vs keeping it inside just wondering about it later. How do we get questions out of that they maybe to shy to ask the question? I feel like we should teacher our students our classroom is a safe environment, so you shouldn't feel ashamed of the questions you may have. No question is a dumb question, I'm learning others may have the same question as you, they may just be waiting for some one else to ask it first. That doesn't always work though because if you don't ask the question it may not get answered. When walking into a classroom we should always encourage our students to start the off with an open mind and take deep breaths before class starts, it always helps me right before class.