Radically Imagining my future classroom

Hello everyone.

My name is JJ in german

and this is my radical imagination of my future class.

We have six points we're gonna talk about today in depth

and they are importance of listening

recognizing individuality, interrogating practices,

language dynamics, language repertoire and equity versus equality.

To start off, we're going to talk about importance of listening and how crucial it is

to the classroom

as future educators. One of the most important thing that we do

in the classroom is

listen

were there to teach our students obviously and talk to them,

but if we're not having a conversation with our students were not

valuing their time.

Every student

very important things to say.

And if they don't get those things out and no one's listening,

they're not going to feel like what they have to say is important.

Um mindful and active listening,

active listening promotes mindful thinking which can reduce anxiety,

depression students.

So when you're listening to your students

and understanding what they're going through,

understanding what they understand from the lessons, we can, better

things may change the course of action, change our lesson plan so that our students

and better understand

if we're not listening to

how

the students understand the material

and we're not gonna be able to grow as teachers as well.

Obviously as a teacher were teaching,

but we're also always learning ah here we

have a connection to our book reading and strength

which says we talk about the idea that our superpower is listening and

that there are several tools afterwards and

strategies that can augment our listening,

listening is very important obviously and

it

plays a big role

in a conversation. Like I said that students and teachers

aren't separate. They are very much

both human beings, They both have to have conversations with one another.

Moving on,

we have recognizing individuality,

classroom full of students will have a large amount of individual individuality,

sorry, uh, compared to any other place,

teachers who recognize this and accept

the differences that their students have our

have often remembered,

oh, sorry, have often been remembered

by these students and respect and overall

three steps to strengthen individuality is show enthusiasm.

Students of all ages have a different view of the world and all of these ideas

that students have

need to be promoted with a positive outlook.

The teacher is

being positive towards their students ideas.

The student will continue to have more creative and influencing ideas

next to expose the students to new things. Students don't

just learn on their own obviously, and that's why we're teachers, we have teachers,

we have schools,

um but if we expose them to new things rather than just

sitting them down and talking to them about a lecture or whatever,

then we're not going to be as

progressive.

And then lastly goals and dreams and students

must have somewhere there

reaching for some goal from dreams

and

as a teacher, we should be pushing them to achieve

those dreams and those goals.

It's very important for a student to have such

ideas in their head, so that they're not,

you know, they don't give up on their dreams and just give up on school altogether.

Um,

so yeah, that's recognizing individuality.

Obviously, every student is different.

Every student learns their own way and that's very crucial to

the classroom.

Then we have interrogating practices.

Um, we learned about earlier in this class,

about the different court cases that we have during,

that kind of impacted and changed the way

schools are laid out and how they're played,

how they are used.

Mm hmm.

And from those court cases, we get a few difference.

Acts

uh, passed by the government

and we have

we have things like the bilingual Education Act

which is designed to help Children with limited english speaking

ability by providing federal aid for education educational programs.

These cases and acts have obviously affected

our schooling system in a very, very, very influential way.

And um

obviously we have much less discrimination

in our schools because of it. However, we still have

many issues where discrimination takes place in

the schools and in the education system.

And so that is definitely something that we need to make become more aware

of in the future. So we can have a more safe and

fair and respectful pastoral.

Next we have language dynamics. Um,

this has to do with anything and everything that language offers to to us as people.

Language is very important. Language is

how we communicate how we talk to each other, how we learn and we teach everything.

Language

basically

shapes who we are.

But the main problem is that language isn't just what we speak or what we write

It is how we act 1-1 another. It's every type of form of communication.

We have symbols for

certain things. We have

um,

ah

other other things that are not just words, language isn't just words.

Um, so, but the framework of language dynamics

kind of goes in a circle, so we learn

from one another

and then we pass those onto a culture

and so our culture,

each everyone has their own culture obviously,

and then from that we can learn from other people's culture

and

evolve

to be able to create a new type of learning

and it kind of just goes in a circle and everything just keeps changing and changing.

And language has never been

the same

since the beginning of language. Obviously

human beings first expressed their thoughts,

feelings and knowledge through language.

Language is the first source of communication, as I said,

for better conditions for better communication system,

it is necessary that language should be used as a good in a good manner.

Language has to play a good role in mass communication.

Um, so language is basically, like I said,

how we speak to each other and it's

incredibly important for students to understand that language.

This is the main reason why so many people were

pressing for

one language in schools for so long,

but instead of one language obviously we've learned that

it would be much smarter to incorporate all the languages

into our classrooms.

Uh speaking of language, we move on to our linguistic repertoire.

Every student is different.

Like I said, I keep going back to how every student is different. Everyone student as

different background.

Um,

so a linguistic repertoire,

it can be difficult to understand as a,

as a teacher to understand every single linguistic repertoire

that each of our students have or

another word would be our language portrait.

Our linguist portrait is what you saw in the last slide was a little gingerbread

and

students are able to fill in how they feel. Each of their languages

contributes to each to a part of their body.

And

so

we can see here that

on the left, we have

a little gingerbread that has

Brooklyn english, english, spanish and Portuguese,

we can see the different ways that this

portrait

shows how this student feels about their languages.

As you can see, they don't have

Portuguese in there,

mouth on there, like lips or whatever.

And, and as a teacher, you can see that that means

the student is working on Portuguese

probably and probably can understand it because

it's in their head and they feel it in their heart to,

because they care about the language, but they can't quite speak it.

So there.

Um,

it's just a really nice way to visualize how students feel about their languages,

which is very important because if the teacher doesn't understand

what a student knows,

the teacher cannot help them in the way that they need to.

Uh and lastly, we have Equity versus equality.

This is an incredibly important topic that we talked

about in just about every single class education class.

And we're hearing about Equity versus equality.

Equity is the definition of equity is as simple

as the equality of being fair and impartial,

which is easy to understand, but it quickly gets confused with equality,

since it's in the definition.

Um, this picture does a very good job of demonstrating what equality is

giving everyone the same thing.

That's not what everyone needs.

Like I said, everyone is different, every student is different.

And so on the bottom, you can see that the equity would be

you give everyone a bike of their proportions.

Um, so the depth of the separation of

basically means that the quality

you're giving everyone the same things, everyone is, it's everything's equal.

It's in quotations equal.

Um, but for it to be equitable, you have to give everyone to give

I have to give everyone something that gives them

an equal opportunity.

And so that's kind of the best way to,

for me, for me to understand

that

equality makes everyone equal equity makes everyone have equal opportunity.

And so if we

talking about equity versus equality have, saying these words so many times,

it's getting

very difficult to keep up, but that's okay, we're going to move on to equality,

which um

equality

is

something we all strive for obviously,

but in my opinion, that

is that equity is kind of the next step.

Um but I didn't,

I mean that

equality we we have for the most part equality

in our school systems and everyone gets similar two,

everyone gets equal opportunity to things, but they don't get

um

what they need

per se

for them to have the best outcome in school. So, an example of that would be

um students who might be emergent bilingual,

it would be equitable,

really, sorry, it will be equal to give the students

the same packet as everyone else in the class,

even though everyone else speaks english and this

one student is very um emergent in english,

it would be equitable to give all the english speaking students

english, first language students

a pack it in english

and then this one student a

packet

that is in both spanish and english,

maybe going between the two has a translation that would make it equitable.

So that that way,

this student is getting the same information as the rest of their class.

Equity and equality. Obviously, both need to be in the classroom.

Um but like I said, I feel like equity is more of a next step and that is

most important for

radically imagining a future classroom, is that

equity needs to be

a big part of

the learning, basically. So

I think that is all I have.

Um, and

yeah, so thank you very much for listening.

Here are my sources. Have a wonderful rest of your day.

Radically Imagining my future classroom

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