Narrative In The Life Of The Skillful Teacher

For this interview I decided to come to my first year seminar teacher, Mr. Lusk. Born on February 7th is Adam Lusk he currently lives in Media, PA and is an excellent teacher at Rosemont College. Teaching First year seminar which includes helping Freshman on challenges and how to resolve them. Student led discussions with speaking on topics that can help others overall is the main focus of his class. Graduating from Temple University with a PHD also now acquiring 14 years of teaching experience.

Education and economic justice were two forms of systemic inequalities that make inequality difficult to talk about. Education is a requirement if someone wishes to have a better life, but not everyone has access to quality education. In the U.S there has always been a battle, people of color have fought to be able to access quality education, (Philips, 2016: 130) they are constantly attending inferior and ineffective school where there are many distractions for students to be fully successful in the classrooms. Often these schools where children of color attend lack quality facilities, educational resources, and qualified teachers. Someone can’t help to notice that in general such unqualified schools are mostly in color people’s neighborhoods.

Education is essential to a person's future and success but with people of color not receiving the proper education they deserved they generally stayed in lower socioeconomic levels. In “Inequalities of Education” the author states that “The “white” schools had more money to purchase supplies and pay teachers. While “black” schools were usually one roomed with discarded supplies and outdated textbooks from the “white” schools.” This helps prove how schools were for people who weren't white, and helps provide a picture of how poorly the schools were for people of color by them not having good supplies and the correct textbooks given to

Education has always been a basic human right across every society around the world. We have always needed to disseminate information and teach people about different skills in order to perpetuate our societies, as they cannot function if people will never go beyond the basics and specialize. However, it is also because of education that we become more holistic people, taking in new ideas and thinking about them, allowing us to develop ourselves as an individual. This is why education is important in creating informed citizens within our own societies, creating our individual “voice” and instigate change within our societies. James Baldwin’s article A Talk to Teachers stresses this, as he discusses that education is important in the liberation of people of color from discrimination and oppression. As long as knowledge about issues are spread, people will think and act once they possess the knowledge to. This is why Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” informs people about the issues of mass incarceration, because if people aren’t knowledgeable about such issues, they will never act to change it, or have any reason to care. Knowledge is a powerful weapon, and it is our responsibility to use it for the better.

In chapter 8 “Educational Inequality”, it is discussed that before the Brown v. Board of Education decision, people of color were systematically prevented from attending white schools under a doctrine called “separate but equal” (Golash-Boza, 2014). Since this 1954 decision, there has been progress to form equality in the schools. For example, there are no longer any all-white universities and colleges are working harder to encourage a diverse college campus, but there is still set-backs from being completely equal. The book “Race & Racisms” states that there is the achievement gap in America’s school systems. The achievement gap is the disparate educational outcomes of whites, Asians, blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans (Golash-Boza, 2014). According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2010 there was recorded that 29.3% of white people with their bachelor’s degree or higher and only 17.7% of black people with this achievement. Also stated in the surveys was that the average GPA of a white person was 3.09 and the average GPA of a black person was 2.69. There are multiple explanations on where the racism or inequality occurs in society that causes such a difference between the outcomes of black people versus white people, however it comes down to the same conclusion; there is inequality in the school

Tuesday, September 12, 2017, I eagerly interviewed a fellow co-worker, Patricia Britt, a kindergarten assistant teacher at my school, New Hope Elementary. She has been a paraprofessional for almost twenty years. When asked to define the term 'paraprofessional', Britt replied, "An underpaid teacher who does just as much, if not more, in the classroom as the certified teacher but doesn't get recognized for it." In a sense, Britt is undoubtedly correct. Most of the time, assistant teachers are considered not as important or not as valuable as certified teachers. Assistant teachers can perform the same duties as certified teachers, but do not get compensated for it nor recognized for all the hard work put into the task.

My teacher is invisible now because she drank a purple drink. It was really weird when she was teaching the only thing we could see was her glasses. So when she went somewhere we stared at her glasses to know where she was going. One time i saw her gas coming out it was disgusting. Another thing she would all the time was grade peoples papers. The only thing i could see was her pen and paper.

Personal Teaching Persona Description: If I were to choose four words to describe my current teaching persona, I would choose approachable, responsive, flexible, and open. To exhibit those behaviors to students in an online class, I have to take some of the things I do in a F2F class and “tweak” them.

A few years ago I began to work extensively with the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF), first as a tutor, then later as a liaison for my high school. From two years of one-on-one study sessions, alone in a classroom, I could fill a book with memoirs of families rocked by medical expenses that, without NCCF, threatened to bankrupt every person I met—children and adults sacrificing their prom, their college fund, their 401k, to the untrumpable cause of their son’s-daughter’s-brother’s-sister’s-niece’s-nephew’s-grandchild’s health. As a tutor, it was my job to help any student put before me to understand whatever had gone over their head in school; as a person, it was my job to let them cry for the first few minutes after the door of the classroom closed behind them when, for a moment, they didn’t have to bear the weight of so many worlds. It was my job to let them talk

I believe that education extends far beyond the classroom walls, and involves many more people than students and teachers. People should be learning wherever they go, and should continue learning long after they’ve graduated from high school or college. Education isn’t something that can be quantified with tests or report cards, but is instead something that people carry with them. It’s a survival pack for life, and some people are better equipped in certain areas than in others. People with a solid education are prepared for nearly anything, as they will be able to provide for their own physical, emotional, and aesthetic needs.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela. Without education, there is simply no telling of what this world would be like. There wouldn’t be doctors, lawyers, businesses etc. Life and everything around us would be fatuous. Schools and education give us a plan in life and help guide us. Throughout the years education has changed tremendously. It had its improvements throughout the decades, and it also has had its falters as well. Education in America is an issue in this country and it definitely needs to be tweaked and improved. Education is what makes us people who we are and what we will be. Nelson Mandela had it right, there is no weapon more powerful than education.

I conducted the teacher interview on the 8th of September 2017. The educator, I interviewed, was Mrs. Mahan. Mrs. Mahan was a middle school and high school Spanish language educator for 20 years, in the state of California. Her journey into the field of education began in the 1960’s. She described that during the sixties, a career in teaching was the one of the best career options for women to pursue. She said that the salary for a woman in the field of education was about the same compared to the salary of their male colleagues. As a result of her being bilingual, her pay was higher than most of her colleagues. She received her education by attending SDSU and spending time abroad in Mexico to gain experience and knowledge of the Spanish language.

The ability to be literate and educated in this day and age should be a right not a privilege. Education is a huge part of equality, and that is something that we, as human beings really struggle with. It seems so simple, no matter your race or how wealthy you are, everyone getting the same opportunity to learn. Unfortunately, there are so many factors that determine where a person may go in life. Whether he or she will graduate from high school, go to college or get a white collar job. There are also many different kinds or interpretations of education. James W. Loewen’s “The Land of Opportunity” was published more than a decade ago in 1995, but many of his arguments remain prevalent today. From “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid” written in 2005, Jonathan Kozol speaks on issues that are still being dealt with by students, teachers and schools all over the world. These authors express their views on the education system exposing the effects of government and problems involving race and wealth. So what does it mean to be educated, and who decides? Well, everyone deserves the same chance to learn and be knowledgeable. The government is the main determination of whether or not every person receives the equal opportunity to be educated.

In today 's world we may not think about social justice issues as much as we should, considering they are more prominent today than ever. The most frightening and damaging issue of all, is restriction of education. People in school typically don’t recognize that “Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights”(Gil). Without proper education the civil rights movement would never have made headway, and Martin Luther King would just be another violent uneducated man of the time only reinforcing the stereotypes he fought so diligently to disprove. Education is the most valuable human resource we can attain, because it gives us

Well hello my wonderful class!" The teacher bellowed. "How 's my favorite class doing?" Everyone cheers and that 's when her eyes land on me. "Well look at this class, we have a new student!" Everyone turns around to look at me, I awkwardly wave at everyone. "Yasmine?" I look to my teacher. "If you don 't mind could you come down and sing for us?" I 'm shocked, I didn 't think she 'll put me on the spot like that. "Uhh I-I 'm not-" I stuttered trying to find the right words to say but in my head I 'm like hell no! "Well Ms. Bowie everyone had to sing in front of the class, if it makes you more comfortable you could sing with someone else." I nod letting her know that I 'm ok with that. "Good, well let 's see who will I pick, ahh Mr.