Week 1, January 8th 2020

Hello! As I was reading over the PESB standards, I noticed something interesting that was not prevalent in my high school career. The standard of incorporating more culturally diverse literary works is a hard one to tackle in todays society. In a middle or high school setting, I believe students are ready to, and should learn about more difficult topics, but it is difficult to navigate doing so without stepping on peoples toes. I think we have to think more about what parents want their kids to learn more than what we as educators think that kids should learn. It is a little discouraging to have to worry about teaching sensitive topics and the possible repercussions of offending someone unknowingly and without meaning to. There is a fine line between making students unccomfortable in a good way and in a bad one. How do you think we should tackle this issue as educators?

The common core standards are to me, very confusing. I work with the City of Cheney for an after school program where I frequently get asked to help kids with their homework. Math is especially hard to relearn (I suppose that’s partly why I didn’t want to be a math teacher), but I have noticed that it has become much more visual than from when I learned it. This change makes it harder for us who learned it one way to help these students, but I have seen that it makes the information easier to grasp and assists with other problem-solving tactics that can be used throughout life. I have also seen that this new way of teaching helps students learn harder topics at an earlier age. At what point I think it still has a few bumps that need to be tackled, but I think it has helped the next generation of learners.

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