Priscilla Cerrato

       It’s no secret that students in great economic circumstances are the ones with more advantages, unlike the students in high-poverty areas, they get the least advantages. It’s up to the educators to pursue equity within the schools so all students get an equal education. In “The Secret to High-Achieving Schools: ‘I’ve Never Felt Unsupported’”, it says “well supported teachers make a difference”, this means that schools that provide more resources to the teachers are able to give a better quality education to the students. On social media, we hear complaints from teachers how they’re not given a lot of support, especially economically. Since they work in low-income areas, the school budgets are low, and they have to work with the little resources the school gives them. Teachers have a lot of expenses for their classroom supplies, and since the school doesn’t give them much money for those expenses, most of the time they have to purchase the supplies out of their...

       It’s important to have a teaching/ learning relationship within a teacher and student. There will be times when a student refuses to learn specific skills or when they fail to do so, but our jobs as teachers is to keep pushing and encouraging them to learn rather than giving in to them not learning. As discussed in the article “I won’t learn from you”, we read how the teacher tricks her student into learning to read by reading the sentence and having him repeat it. So you can do similar tricks to help a student learn a specific skill. It will take time and practice, but it is possible.       It’s important that the school and classroom is an environment where students can embrace their culture without fear of being judged or belittled. Especially with teachers, a student will believe what their teacher tells them, so if the teacher belittles them, the students will feel that they are less. This is also explained in the article “I won’t...

       In the teaching profession, it’s no secret that women teachers and the majority. In the  module introduction, it says “early in American history, most school teachers were white men”. This is true because women weren’t allowed to get an education, therefore, there weren't any female teachers. However, once women were able to get an education, women started occupying teaching roles, especially since there weren't many job options for women back then. Teaching quickly became a “feminine” role. Nowadays, most people believe teaching roles are better suited for women. Additionally, men who are educators, especially educators for young children, aren’t seen as real men, or get their masculinity questioned.   This results in men being discouraged to become educators.      Although there are more women in the education profession, both male and female teachers make an impact in schools and their students. We should persuade more men to b...

       For the most part, schooling is equal but not equitable. Although both terms might seem similar, they’re not. Equality is equal resources for all students and is more group-focused, while equity is fair for all students and is more individual-focused. Equity is about offering individualized support to each student to support whatever needs or barriers they have, like poverty or limited transportation or food needs. Equity provides students with resources that fit their circumstances. Equity is different and unique for each student, equality gives students equal resources, which might or might not fit all their needs, it might be good for one student but not beneficial to another student. An example of equality would be the teacher teaching the whole class visual learning only, it’s equal but not suitable for every student if they have different learning styles. Equity would be the teacher matching the students learning capabilities and providing the teaching s...

  The theme that has had the greatest impact on me as an educator has been the big question “Whose are told and whose remain in the margins?” I feel that this big question has impacted me the most because I have personally felt marginalized growing up. So not only do I understand those that remain in the margins, but I have also felt what they feel. I have firsthand experience on what it’s like to not be privileged and to not have the resources that most other students do. I grew up learning other people's realities instead of my own, my culture and ethnicity was seen as less compared to white people. In Segregated by Experience the first sentence starts with “ many young children of color are forced to walk in prisonlike lines with silent “bubbles in their mouths'' and hands behind their backs.” This statement shocked me because something I grew up learning in elementary school was actually a controlling mechanism implemented by white supremacy to control the behavior of ...

 It's no surprise that those of lower socieconimic status and minorities are the ones whose stories remain in the margins. Being marginalized means that people or groups are seen as less and often overlooked. As a result of this, they have less access to resources and opportunities compared to those who are privileged. Marginalized people are categorized into a lower level, and oftentimes they're the ones with many strengths. Their important strenghts are overlooked and hidden, when we should be aknowledging them and helping them build on those strengths so they can have a higher chance of succeeding in life. We can also learn a lot from their strenghts, those who are less experienced than them can also benefit from this.  We've seen how we mainly learn about events/ historic figures that the state claims important for us to learn, and don't learn about the ones that are seen as unimportant. When I become a teacher, I not only want to educate my students on the curricul...