Autobiography's Video Assignment Analysis

I often wonder if being average looking would allow me to live a life that is not being viewed from under a microscope. These stereotypes have motivated to follow my dreams of becoming a teacher. I have decided that I don’t want to be recognized as someone with just a pretty face. I believe that the scrutiny has allowed me to be stronger and more sensitive to

Children and young people can now learn and understand about different cultures and beliefs through the media and within their own school and by talking openly and positively about race, religion, ethnicity and cultural comparisons and differences will only benefit children in their understanding and development of a healthy social attitude.

Overcoming stereotyping is a challenge educators can encounter when it comes to ensuring that teaching strategies are appropriate for culturally diverse children. Some educators may compare one child to another child that comes from the same cultural background and use the same teaching strategy. One way to overcome this is to make sure that educators know each of the students individually instead of comparing one to another or relying on stereotyping. “To truly engage students, we must reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotypes we bring into the classroom that may hinder interconnectedness.” (Teaching Tolerance, 1991) Once they know more about each of the students then they can avoid stereotyping and adjust their teaching strategy to meet the individual needs of the students in the classroom.

It is very common in the world to be judged by cultural traits and be associated to these traits in daily situations. Similarly, Drew Hayden Taylor discusses, in his article, “Pretty Like a White Boy” how he got questioned about being an Aboriginal based on his looks. He uses his personal experiences, in arguing the difficulties others gave him based on Aboriginal stereotypes about how one should act and behave. Taylor effectively persuades the reader by discussing these personal experiences that indulge the reader to understand that an individual may look different from the majority of the cultural background, but they still have the cultural upbringing within them. These significant personal experiences intrigues that he has actually faced

As a teacher, it is important to know and understand the racial and cultural identities of both yourself, and your students. Knowing about your students’ backgrounds is a great way to make the classroom a safe and welcoming environment. Not all educational settings emit a feeling of safety to its students, and that needs to be changed. In this paper, I will discuss how my racial and cultural identity may be the same and may differ from my students, as well as some ways in which the institution of education can be changed to be more racially and culturally inclusive.

B.2.a. Within this video, the teacher took her students on a field trip to observe citizens and gauge how the rights showed individualism in America. It made them aware of stereotyping. This supports students learning about cultural diversity by showing how others were treated in history. In student reflection forms, students wrote about how color should not matter when interacting with others. People can be a good person even if they aren’t religious or believe the same way as themselves. The teacher taught the students that everyone is different and that we need to look for and identify the good qualities of others. This was an effective way to teach the students because they became more aware of the way they acted toward others.

On a Wednesday evening at 9:05pm in Minnesota, an African American couple was driving in their car with a four-year-old daughter in the back seat. After being pulled aside by Joronimo Yanez, a police officer, for a broken tail light, Philando Castile, the driver, stopped his car. Officer Yanez asked Castile for his license and registration. Castile handed the officer his car license and registration, but also told him he has a weapon in his car, for which he was licensed to carry. Officer Yanez immediate words were “Don’t move!” As Castile put his hands up where the officer could clearly see them, officer Yanez shot him repeatedly four times in the arm to the horror of Castile, his girlfriend, and their four-year-old daughter. Completely stupefied by the event, Castile’s girlfriend, Reynolds, took out her phone and began streaming an online video directly to Facebook showing the immediate aftermath of the incident. In the video, Reynolds narrates the accident’s story and exclaimed, “You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir. Please don’t tell me he’s dead.” While recording, her four-years-old asked “Mammy, I’m scarred!” Reynolds answered, “It’s okay, I’m right here with you.” Officer Yanez returned and ordered Reynolds on her knees out of the car. Still being recorded, the other officers on the scene asked officer Yanez of his mindset, checking if he’s ok, completing ignoring the true victim, Castile. Castile was left bleeding

Teachers must learn about their student’s cultures if they want to educate them to the best of their ability. Many of the students in culturally diverse classrooms will want to learn in different ways. Some will want to learn in pairs, groups, as a class, or just alone. If the teacher is educated in their culture then lessons can be adjusted to appeal to every student as much as possible instead of forcing some to forget about their culture and learn like others. Students from

This foundation promotes values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences and helps people to be more accepting of variety. Ruby and her first grade teacher Barbara Henry go to schools around the country today and educate students on the importance of respecting the variation of others and their values. They inform the youth about ways to end racism and conflict in diversity. Their goal is to create change in the educational system and inspire people to be more susceptible to those that may be apart from others. They encourage people to accept difference because a world without contrast would be lifeless. Ruby and Barbara hope that their further education on diversification of characteristics will help the younger generation to stand up for equal

A strong sense of belonging helps children understand and appreciate differences in themselves and others, which ultimately benefits their mental health and wellbeing (DEEWR, 2009). This means that as an educator, I need to ‘think about my own values, beliefs and attitudes related to diversity and differences and acknowledge and address any bias that we may hold. As well as critically examining our own assumptions, ‘cultural competence’ requires us to take a strong approach to countering racism and bias when we encounter it (Miller, 2013). This is a long way from ‘live and let live’ attitude. It involves

Race, ethnicity, religion, class, sexual orientation, ability, and gender have all impacted my life in ways beyond my total comprehension. However, I can begin to identify some of the notable interactions and effects and discuss the ways in which they might present themselves in my teaching practices. I am a White, European American, Christian, and heterosexual female without a medically ascribed disability. I can say that ultimately (and unfortunately) my cultural and physical identity is considered normative within the United States and has placed me on a path of privilege and power. Throughout my life, though, I have been fortunate to encounter other cultural groups in very meaningful ways. My international, religious, and family experiences have shaped my worldview most notably.

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou.

In today 's society, “people are closed minded,” and do not take the opportunity getting to know the other person because of stereotyping and racism. Even though we all have different opinions toward other cultures, norms, beliefs and values we should all respect each other differences. We should consider learning from one another and not judge a person based on their race, ethnicity, gender and religion. As a society, it is very important; we educated ourselves in other cultures, even though we all have different values and beliefs.

) Many of my competencies helped me in this project, particularly with the technique we were using to create our informative video. Indeed, I have been used to new technologies since I am a little kid. I like to try new software and increase my abilities with the ones I am used to. I used a lot of software for school projects and I am now comfortable with many types of programs. It wasn’t difficult for me to discover a new app and all its functions. Furthermore, I had much existing knowledge about the subject. In fact, we’ve talked about the Second World War in history class, English class, French class and even in ethical class. Actually, we’ve talked specifically about Hitler’s speech at the Nuremberg Rally of 1935 in ECR last year. It helped me a lot to have a strong base on which I was able to build my ideas for the video.

While doing my field work this summer, I was not only able to learn new skills which I can use as a future teacher, but also skills I can use in dealing with every day people. In watching the students work together and learn, I observed how two people who may look alike can be so very different in the dame way that people who may first appear to be alike may be very different.