This week our FNED 246 class was able to read Troublemakers by author Carla Shalaby. Shalaby explores how prisons can compare to a school system. Teachers should get to know their students instead of making judgments and stereotypes about a student. In the school system, the children want to feel accepted not being pushed around. As a future teacher, I believe getting to know and learn about your students is very important. I don't want to be the kind of teacher who is careless about the students you teach. I work at a daycare so it's important to build a relationship with these kids and guide them through their day. If you walk in with a smile on your face going to work the students will have a smile on their face and be happy. They will mirror your energy and if they see you doing something they will also do it. You need to be mindful of your body language, facial expressions, and how you interact with others.
Quotes:
"I asked teachers to identify the children presenting the most challenging behaviors in their classrooms. Interested in freedom, I needed the children who sing the most loudly rather than those who follow orders for quiet. These are the children who do not always cooperate, who cannot or will not comply with the demands of their teachers. They are the children who make trouble at school--the troublemakers. They have been my teachers and, in these pages, they will become yours"(Shalaby, pg.5). When a teacher takes the time to build a relationship with the student it makes the student want to come to class. It can also create a positive and welcoming classroom for your students so they can succeed in school. By gaining their trust chances are the students won't act up in the classroom and they can grow from an education standpoint and for their well-being.
"These troublemakers-rejected and criminalized-are the children from whom we can learn the most about freedom. They make noise when others are silent. They stand up against every school effort to force conformity. They insist on their own way instead of the school's way. These young people demand their freedom even as they are simultaneously the most stringently controlled, surveilled, confined, and policed in our schools They exercise their power despite being treated as if they have none"(Shalaby, pg.6). These children are being treated like they are criminals and instead of regular human beings. This is a school, not a jail cell.
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Hey Taryn, I love how you emphasize the importance of building relationships with students. It’s so true that when teachers take the time to really get to know their students, it creates a more positive and welcoming environment. Kids definitely pick up on our vibes, and when we approach them with positivity, it can make all the difference in their day. I used one of the same quotes because it highlights a crucial point about understanding and valuing those "troublemakers." They have so much to teach us about freedom and individuality.
ReplyDeleteI love the quotes you used they were really important to the reading. I agree that taking the time to know and learn about your students is very important. I definitely agree with when you say how a teachers mood can effect the students mood. I know in many of the classes I have been in my mood can be heavily effected by my teachers mood. For example if I am excited for class, and my teacher is acting like they don't want to be there, it effects me and I lose interest in the class. However, it can work in the opposite way too, like if a teacher is super excited and happy it can rub off on me too.
ReplyDeleteThis was a very nice blog post! I agree with you that I want to be a teacher that supports everyone and doesn't give up on my students. I want to be a teacher that gets to know my students as people and not just who they are within a classroom. I think that the second quote that you chose from the article is extremely important and shows us that maybe we as teachers should not be so quick to shut down students when they are breaking school policy but instead support them to ask questions and be given reasoning for why they can't or have to do something.
ReplyDeleteBeing able to get to know your students is a earned privelege, as classroom diversity is so important to create a sense of belonging in an entire school. I agree with you and Ella as well, since it is so easy to tell when your teacher is in a bad mood or not, like if I went to that class after she had a bad time in her previous class, she could take it out on my class and make all of her students dislike her.
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