Thursday, October 25, 2007
Response to Group 3 Day 1...
GROUP 3 YOU ROCK! I loved group 3's activities on Wednesday. I don't believe I looked at the clock once during their teach. The first activity was fun. It made me smile to think back to highschool, and picture the jocks and band geeks. Anytime a teacher makes a student smile, they are doing something right. I loved the fact that group 3 allowed us to work with different people outside of our traditional groups. (We are starting to form "classroom cliques" of our own.) I really enjoyed the chance to talk with different people. I liked the fact that we got the chance to brainstorm on HUGE white pieces of paper. Its something about poster paper, that triggers THINK in my mind. The markers were a plus as well. This activity made me think of all the biases I have obtained over the years. I started to wonder...Where did I get these from? I don't believe they were ever taught to me. I think they are just passed around from child to child like a bad cold on the first day of winter. It is good that I have the chance to think about these stereotypes I have, since I am going to be a teacher. Will I use these biases on my students? if I never acknowledged them, I might have. That's what scares me. How many biases do I really have about people? And how do I deal with this? This is something hopefully group 3 will touch on during their day 2 teaching. I really enjoyed day one, and I am thankful to group 3 for bringing this topic of stereotyping to the forefront. I look forward to day 2.
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Thank you for all of the kind words! I'm really glad that our first lesson got you thinking about how to handle stereotyping and biases in your own classroom.
I really appreciate everything you said about us. Isn't it amazing how easily stereotypes can be started, even though many of these so called "stereotypes" are really quite close together?
Yeah...where did we learn these stereotypes from? They were never taught to us....so true! I never thought about this until you said it. Good point....and I bet I know what group u were in! lol
The high stereotypes were more learn from looking older kids in the hallway and which best described us as a whole we learned from looking how they acted and talked from being these older students when were freshman.
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