Week of 7/6

This week I feel like I learned a lot that can help me as a future teacher, I was able to learn a little about fair versus equal and how to make our assessments fair, I also learned a lot about poverty and abuse and the affects that it can have on the children we teach and what we can do about it.
I really enjoyed learning about fair versus equal, I think that it is really important that we understand that and that everything is not going to be fair or equal. Our conversation in class about it reminded something that my dad taught me and my little sister, when ever we complained about something being unfair he asked us "what do we know about life" and we had been taught that the response to that question is "life's not fair" because of this I believe that I have a further understanding that everything isn't always going to be fair or equal. I also think that this is something important that we teach out children because they also need to understand that life isn't fair.
We also learned about poverty and abuse in class, which was something that was really eye-opening for me because I have never lived in an area where there was much poverty or really even understood it. The video we watched in class helped me to develop a little more of an understanding about poverty, and when we talked about it in class it helped me to even further understand. Because I have gained a little bit further of an understanding I think that I am more prepared to help my students. We also spent some time going over abuse reporting which is something that I had never really thought was going to be part of my job but I am starting to realize that it is a really important part of my job and that that is one way that I can help my students.
I think that both of the things while quite different are things that are really important to help my future students to be successful and be able to find happiness in their schooling.