Christian's Blog; Teaching's of Literature

     Throughout this course and learning about middle school and the strings attached to it, I would want to teach in this arena.  At first, I was hesitant about teaching in middle school, because of all the things I went through during my time. Yet I have learned a lot in this course. Middle schoolers have to go to school are going to go through a lot, and I would like to be there to help them because of what I’ve learned in this course.      If I were to teach in middle school, the common fear that would resonate in there would be a failure. Not just the failure of my teaching, but failure of helping my students. As a teacher, I want to be there for them and if I were to fail them I would not be able to cope with that. Middle school is a very serious and tough time in a student's development, and as a middle school teacher, I need to put in all my effort to help them out.

                                                                                               Reflection       To be a culturally responsive teacher, you need to know that you must treat your students equally. You cannot grade them any differently or treat them any differently. I can connect as to my time as a camp counselor when we have kids from foreign countries come over to our camp. If I had some of them in my cabin I will give them the same amount of attention I would give to the other campers. I just feel like to be a culturally responsive educator you need to treat everyone the same, yet it could be very scary. My biggest fear of being culturally responsive is being racist. In m...

                                                          Reflection       The readings that stood out this week were my literature resources for my literature review. I first went into this week not knowing much about the brain development that occurs in adolescents. Now, I have attained a good amount of knowledge. I knew the brain did not fully develop until the age of 25, but I did not know that myelin had a critical role in this, as well as the prefrontal cortex. It is funny because my nickname at the camp I worked at was “Cortex”. Overall, the biggest portion of my knowledge from this week has to go to “ Adolescent Brain Development: Current Research and the Impact on Secondary School Counseling Program s ” (Roatens, 2012). This is a paper I will keep in mind as I progress through this prog...