After seeing the
RW video it made me think about my education and how I never really had a good schooling experience. from middle school to high school i can honestly say only two teachers had really affected me and inspired me to do better. The majority of the teachers that I had were teachers you could bribe for good grades or they spiked their drinks so they didn't have to really deal with us. Other teachers were deported or switched in the beginning or middle of the year so we had to get new teachers and try to accommodate to the change. It made school seem pointless at the time and I thought that everything i was learning really wasn't going to help me. My school in general just wasn't helpful, they didn't help me with getting into college, fafsa, or the steps i needed. I felt very lost trying to get help and finding my way out. I am the first generation in my family to be able to graduate high school, my family was happy with that i didn't have to go to college if i didn't want to, so there really wasn't that expectation. But I CHOOSE to come to college and try to get better education.
Thinking about all these things makes me think about how i am going to have to help teach, reach, inspire, connect, and help students as well. A lot of amazing points were brought in the video things about culture, and learning differences, teacher student relationships. As a youth worker I want to help inspire kids. help them to enjoy what they to, and maybe they will feel motivated to learn. If we strive to help them, and give them some merit they will probably strive to do better. But sometimes our language or the way we put ourselves out there may affect the way the student sees you. I though about how youth in action does "bug-in/out" thats an awesome way for teachers to find out whats going on with their students. What is happening and what they need to know. it gives them and insight to the childs life and what they are going through instead of assuming. We as future works need to try and stay away from assuming and find out directly, ask questions, see how their day went, ask if there is anything we can help them with.
Students want some relativity with what their learning, so take certain examples of Rosa Parks and Abraham lincoln, find new ways to teach it and connect it to them. I love how they talked about taking rosa parks and showing how she was an activist before and relating that to how it can be used today. Its the same with learning about Abraham Lincoln maybe take the Gettisburg Adress and have the students try to relate by having to write their own letter in a hard moment. How would they try to cheers others and give the light of hope in though time. When we take time to relate it to our lives, then we begint o see how useful this can be, the amazing changes these people did and how they can inspire us to change and be better.
