1.
What is reverent listening and how
can it support culturally responsive teaching?
Reverent
listening is not just hearing someone talk. It is showing interest in what that
personal is saying and putting everything including your feelings and
experiences into that person. If a teacher is a reverent listening he or she is
defiantly a culturally responsive teacher. This can create a very positive and comfortable
classroom community as well as make the students feel comfortable when
expressing their thoughts and feelings.
2.
Give an example from your own schooling
experience of what this quote means:
Reverent listening is not to be confused with humiliation
and domination by others who force us to listen, and even less so, with the
kind of incompetence that wants to be told what to do.
After reading this quote and thinking
about my own experiences in school, I think about, as student, being told what
to talk about or having to listen to lectures or presentations where neither
the students or teacher were interested and actual feeling and thoughts were
not being expressed. For example, being given a subject to research or speak upon
instead being able to choose something your passionate about.
3. What is meant by a "laundry list of value ethics"?
Give an example from your own schooling experience. And then explain how this approach
to character education can be NON-culturally responsive.
I believe that a “laundry list of value ethics” are the
rules or values expected in the classroom are just written on the wall or on a
poster. These things need to be modeled by the students and teacher not just
listed on the wall. In my schooling experience it seemed this way most of the
time. There was not much equality between student and teacher, which made it
seem like the teachers were always above the students. This is non-culturally
responsive for many reasons. Students do not feel important and their opinions
are not valued causing them to not want to express interests or feelings.
4. Have you ever had a teacher that at one time or another
exhibited the traits of a reverent teacher? What did they do? How did they make
you feel?
In this class, I feel as if our teachers model wonderful
reverent listening in teaching. I feel as if my opinion will always be valued
and listed to in verbally speaking it or writing it. I receive positive
feedback on my work which makes me feel so great about myself. I also feel as
if I could come to each teacher if I had a personal problem that I needed some
advice on.
5. What factors contribute to a "toxic" school
culture?
Teacher who do not value their students opinion and listen
to what they have to say are contributing to the “toxic” school culture.
Teacher should realize that they can learn and become better teachers through
what their students tell them.
6. Find a quote in this article that
you would like to incorporate into your own philosophy of education and explain
how it fits or changes your philosophy of education.
“These
teachers also have deep respect for their students while seeking to deserve
their respect.”
This quote stood out to me because it is important to have
equal respect between teachers and students. I do not want to be a teacher who
thinks I have power over my students, but one who will model the respect that
needs to be given and talk to children instead of telling them what to do.
7.
Find a strategy/activity conveyed in
a video, blog posting, lesson plan, or online article that will help you become
a teacher who cultivates a reverence in their classroom and school community.
In this video the teacher explains a strategy she uses every
time she enters the classroom. “Expect Respect” and she challenges you to do
this in your classroom. “ The quickest way to earn respect is show respect!”
Rud, A.G. & Garrison, J. (2010). Reverence and Listening in Teaching and Leading.
Teacher College Record 112 (11) 2777-2792.
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