Reflection #3

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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 my car I do not treat anyone differently I believe that everyone is all the same flesh and blood. But I also believe that we are different colors and different races and we all have a different cultural background. 

    When I’m an educator I need to acknowledge student backgrounds in order to get a sense of who they are. I believe if I forget that I will be looked down upon as a bad teacher. It’s a very nervous thing to think about because I don’t want my students to feel unsafe in the classroom. I want my students to feel safe and not be afraid of their own cultural background in the classroom and outside the classroom. To be a culturally responsive teacher, I will make sure all students are safe. 

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