Public Education Multicultural Society Chesney Wiseley

 What makes great teaching? Personally I would say the teacher is what makes great teaching. I say this because teachers are given a long list of items that need to be taught to students each year. As years go on the list changes and so do the students. Great teaching comes from a great teacher. Teachers have a difficult job for creating lesson plans that help each student learn the material, providing a safe space, and many other task that can go unseen. Teachers make an impact each day on the next generations each day. Great teaching comes from teachers who love their job and can not wait to see engagement in their classroom. Teachers that take the time to get to know their students also plays a role in great teaching because if you know what is interesting to a student that might not be engaged in class you can alter the material. In reading small groups if you know a student is interested in dance you could find a book to read about dance to help the student become interested i...

 A golden line that stuck out to me in the first reading of this module was "We may be able to share our views easily with those who agree with us, but how do we express our options while leaving room for someone eles's viewpoint?" I thought this line was a perfect representation of life. I understood it as it is easy to discussion with someone who has the same view pints but hard to hear opinions that differ from your own. This weeks question is how do we talk about issues that matter and in my opinion the short answer is respect. Talking about controversial topics in and out of the classroom can me made easier on a difficult task if everyone has respect. By this i mean respect for the teacher teaching the topic, respect for classmates who engage in the topic, and respect that others are entitled to their own thoughts. Teaching is tough because history involves talking about controversial topics and so does the present. By having respect facts can be taught and children ...

 Due to the media, film makers, and stereotypes the population of people that are not teachers have a picture of what teaching is that is false. Movies provide a false image of teaching such as in "Bad Teacher" the beginning of the movie starts out with a woman who would not care less about her job and was waiting to marry a rich man to then retire from teaching.  This movie at least in the beginning showed viewers that teachers do not care and are just trying to survive the days of teaching. "Bad Teacher" portrayed teachers as people who are crazy and have an easy job. This could not be further than the truth but because tons of people watched it may have influenced their opinion on teachers. Then we have movies that portray teachers as super heroes. In a movie i watched recently called "Stand and Deliver" the teacher in this movie was portrayed as a super hero. The teacher took seniors in high school who could only do second grade math and turned them in...