Prompt #3- Kliewer

As we go to school to learn and understand the concept of learning and how to teach others so in the future we can give back to the people that helped us one day and give back to the people that need it the most. For the students that are learning to be teachers we are going to be able to give back to them as well. No matter where you teach or what you teach we will have some students that aren't as fortunate as others are or who have less then other students. We being the teachers later down the road need to understand that not every child has the family background or family life as another child. One might be living poor then another or one might be wealthier then another. but as teachers we cant look at that. We have to treat each and every child the same as one another and give them the attention and help they need. Most classrooms you see today all have different students in them such as students who want attention, students who don't want attention, students who have disabilities, students who have behavioral issues. With all the different diverse learning that we see its when a culturally competent teacher should be able to teach using a variety of techniques that can help each and every one of her students in a way that they need it. Each teacher can work to help all of there students in the class room as a whole. They have to be able to insure that every child is learning and that no one child is left out because of a learning disability or because they just don't understand it. As Kliewer stated in his Critical Democratic teaching the location of disability article.
Being in the kindergarten class room i see that my teacher does interact with all of the students by including them in everything. Even though my class does have the behavioral issues and the learning disabilities you see my teacher working with them and the whole class as a whole not trying to exclude and=y one of them. for example there was one little girl in the class as they were all sitting on the rug she was not sitting when the teacher said to and once the teacher had to talk to her 3 times she made her get up and sit on a chair that was near the rug. Not to exclude her but to show her that everyone else is listening and she wasn't so she had to not be punished but that she needs to learn to follow directions when the teacher tells the students to do something. In this class room there are a variety of students that have different characteristics. When i first go in to the class they are all playing while the teacher is getting there folders and things for the day. After about 5 minuets of playing the principle come on the intercom and they do the pledge of allegiance and then they go over the rules and how everyone should act. he makes them repeat them as he says them. While being in this classroom for such a short period of time i began to catch on with the rules of the classroom. In the back of the classroom they have a chart with each child's name on it and they have 3 color behind there names, Green, orange and red, these colored cards are for there behavior. At the beginning of the day each child's card is on green for good behavior. If they don't behave and the teacher has to talk to them and they don't listen she makes them change there chard to orange after that if they still don't listen to her she makes them change there card again to red and that means they are in trouble and cant have recess. As the students are being told to change there card the teacher makes sure that the child understands why she had them change there color card.