It’s hard to believe that Maymester is already over, and it is even harder to think about how much I have learned these past three weeks.   I can honestly say that I have learned more in these past three weeks of class than my four years in undergrad.  Although some of the material we discussed [...]

I absolutely loved going to Idlewood Elementary School today.   I knew that I wanted to be a teacher, but those feelings were 100% confirmed when we were in the classrooms working with the students.  I really enjoyed the activity when we were discussing how we can be good teachers – it was so funny to [...]

I still can not stop thinking about the article Melissa brought in today for the Daily News – and I actually just finished printing it out so I can read it myself.  Based on what Melissa said about the article, it seems to be another way that the system continues to feed children, in particular [...]

I think teaching is all of these things.  As we have discussed in class, and as the way the education system stands, teaching is definitely a political field.  The students who have been excelling in school have been the students who come from middle to upper middle class families.  Also, these students are not picked [...]

The birthday cake that Kay brought in today reminded me of an idea that I had for my future classes, and I wanted to share it with all of you.  I volunteer at an organization in Buckhead  called BCM (Buckhead Christian Ministry) and it serves the working poor of Atlanta.  A few volunteers started a program [...]

Our discussion in class on whether or not schools should teach what homosexuality is and to be accepting of it really made me think about how far I am willing to fight for something as a teacher.  I think that students should be taught to be accepting of all types of people, whether that is [...]

I thought that our discussion today about Ebonics being a language or a dialect of English was very interesting.  I have to admit that in the past I did view it as being “slang,” and I had no idea how many linguistic rules go into the way Ebonics is spoken.  I think that if more [...]

One of the exhibits that I liked the most at the King Center was the letters from the elementary schools students to Martin Luther King Jr.  The letters were sometimes funny and very touching and proved how even little kids care about major causes and making the world a better place.  Part of what I [...]

Today, after our discussion on stereotypes of the poor, I reflected on the list of all of the words that we created that either we associate with poor people, or society associates with them, and the one word that did not make the list was invisible.  It seems like the poor walk among us and [...]

There was a statement made in the Blue Eyed documentary that stuck with me far after the movie was over.  The comment was that Blacks in the U.S. are treated similarily to Jews in Nazi Germany.  During the retreat at Serenbe, I couldn’t help but think the same thing while we were watching the Eyes [...]