Refelction 14

I agree with Jim Cole to a point, when he states if I rather live in a world that discrimination is illegal, or would I rather live in a world where no one desires to discriminate. In my opinion I wouldn’t live in either one, part of it is if you don’t desire to discriminate than what other desires have you lost? I also believe that people need the chaos in their life to feel a common bound to when things go right once in a while. I don’t believe discrimination is right, but I do believe that once people stop discriminating than that means there will be eternal peace, and I don’t think people can live like that. I believe we all think how wonderful it would be to live in a world where everything is just that easy, everyone loves, and lives, and dies of natural causes. But in reality when everything is handed to you, what are you really living for? Coming back to the topic of discriminating I don’t believe everyone knows what they do, until they do it, and once they’ve done it their used to it. For example, take cell phones, once you have a cell phone and a couple of months go by, a new cell phone comes out, then you want another cell phone, and the many months go by, and the phones just replenish because that’s how our economy works, we don’t want what’s old we want everything knew, and up to date. I also believe that, that’s how it works with discrimination, but discrimination in the example of a cell phone, once the group who is being discriminated has lost of interest, then they discriminate someone else, and it continues. Of course the discriminating never stops, it’s who they discriminate that changes, and not everyone goes along with this change, because reality is most people who discriminate have been passed down with that hatred for generation to generation, and they don’t even know why they discriminate against that group, they just know to do so is to fit in, and no one wants to be left out. Another part of discrimination is what you believe in, and that is what the generation passed down from generation accounts for, but they only give you half the part, just because they believe it, doesn’t mean you half to. Believing to discriminate because they do, means that they have some facts that you believe in, there for you will discriminate as well. As for your vales, it’s passed on from what your parents taught you, into what you believe is right and wrong. For example having your son or daughter forbidden to date an African American, this is a side effect of your value; because you think sense you have such high expectations that if she date’s someone of an African American decent then it will cloud her judgment. Your attitude is where your values and beliefs are put into one and acted upon people.

Reflection 13

The passage talked about reinventing ourselves, this includes our self-esteem. I believe you have to have a major shift in order for you to really accept yourself as a person. At a young age we are taught to be careless, because we are still growing, but between our teen years until we are senior citizens we are judge, and criticized day in and day out. The self-esteem we manage can only hold on for so long until we manage to crack, but what about those people who don’t crack? What about the ones who know how to handle particular situations without having a mental breakdown? I believe those people have come to accept themselves as a human. The next question you ask is that aren’t we all human, yes, yes we are. But as Freud said to be a human we must be, a lot of people interpret things in different ways. Though I believe that in order to be a human you must accept yourself for who you are and what you’ve done, that to me is being, and to be is to live. Many people don’t accept the things that they’ve done because they have put it behind them, making whatever they’ve done become their past. But I believe you cannot live your future without understanding your past. People like to take you for what you are now, minus the bad and take in the good. But I’ve learned to truly accept someone you must take in the good, as well as the bad. How can you expect people to accept you, when you yourself can’t accept who you are? This is where reinventing ourselves come into place, we need to accept ourselves. We are the most self centered creatures on this planet, if we don’t think highly of ourselves, then who would? Your self-esteem can be managed by many factors whether it comes from within, or whether it comes from your environment and other people. Your surrounding has a huge influence on how your self-esteem will increase or decrease throughout the day. But that is if you let other people affect how you see yourself, the greatest power is to accept your self-esteem from within and you are the influence of your self-esteem. I believe to understand the self you have to listen to yourself, there are a lot of influences that can make you swing every which way, but deep down you are the one making the decision, and only you can decided. Also because you are making the decisions it’s you who will end up facing the consequences whether it is a good or bad outcome. When you learn that things shift, you’ll learn that they shift for your benefit, if you’re the one doing the shifting.

Refelction 12

Even though everyone doesn’t like what Freud’s theories might be, that doesn’t mean they are one hundred percent wrong. I believe every psychologist has a little truth in their theories. When Freud talks about his Ethos, and Thanatos theories he is talking about what people live for and how people have the power to kill people, with out even realizing it. I think the people who don’t believe in Freud’s theories, don’t understand what man kind is capable of, whether it is good or bad. The Ethos and Thanatos also blends in with the id, ego, and the superego. I think that people still consider it important is because that even though not many people reach all of these stages, it still holds truth to most. I think that Freud is constantly switching his theories, and in a way I believe that theories need to be switch because changes are made. I enjoy his Ethos and Thanatos theory because it stands true no matter what. We are human, we live and learn and make mistakes. But one thing life has taught us, is to thrive and seek for a companion, or to thrive and seek for love. Society is responsible for the way we view love, but we are responsible of constantly yearning for it. We spend our entire lives to find happiness, and most of us believe that happiness is found once we’ve found love. Though after a period of loving someone Thanatos comes and tares us apart over what, jealousy, envy, over thinking, and interpreting the situation in how you see it, not how it is seen. But that’s why I believe that Freud can change his theories, and why throughout his life he has. People think and believe what society has taught them to think and to believe. For example, now society believe that when getting married, there is a high chance you will get divorce because now things aren’t lasting as long as they used to, due to a variety of variables. Due to this we are looking for ethos our whole lives to be drawn to such a powerful thing, and once we have it within months we start thinking about Thanatos because our society believe that nothing last forever, so we find our own mistakes and make them so that things don’t last. Freud theories work on the human mind, because they hold true to some, because when you believe something and you feel strong enough about it, the chance it what ever you believe will happen.

Reflection 11

I believe being a teacher, is two jobs in one. Not only do you have to teach a child the subject matter, but you have to care for one as well. Have you ever heard the saying it’s not what you say, but it’s how you say it. Well throughout only months, I’ve learned that, that is the key thing to being a teacher. It might sound crazy, but it’s true. Students aren’t ready to have you take them by the horns and run with it. They want things dumb down, and they want things to come easy. Of course this isn’t always the case, you can’t expect to meet everyone’s needs, and everyone has needs. In this situation, you are teaching the student through the eyes of the many beholders. You are put in the perspective that you can’t only teach the material, but you have to relate it to them, because as humans it’s always about the, me factor, and you have to meet that me factor in order to get some sort of learning accomplished. Even though this might seem like variety of importance, the main key is depending on how you say something, is what they interpret and what they learn. Another thing that is important to me for becoming a teacher in reading about beliefs, values, and attitudes, is that you have to explain all the factors. Everyone has their comfortable way of living and how they like to run their life, and for everyone else it’s a little different from the person before. That’s why you can’t only have one person’s opinion when teaching something for the benefit of someone learning from it. You have to teach it through variety of opinions because just because you see something one way, doesn’t mean another person can see it from that same way, and you have to be ready to understand where your students are coming from, and help them have a better understanding of where not you just are coming from, but the world. Beliefs, values, and attitudes are things that you are brought up with, what you do with them, and how you use them are up to you. Still your beliefs, values, and attitudes change when you’re span of knowledge increases. Everyday you learn something knew, whether you apply it in life situations, or think about it as a useless math problem, your learning, and things can be alter just by an event or even a phrase that will affect you. The thing is teachers teach you what they already know, their not doing anything different with you, then the next person who comes along. It’s really you, who is starting to understand, and cope with what is being taught.

Human Diversity reflection 10

I agree with most of the things from Teaching from inclusion. I believe that it takes time to change for the better, because old habits never seem to quite die. Also, not everything is changeable. You know the difference between right and wrong, but in a culture, there might not be such a thing as right or wrong. Just because the student doesn’t follow things the way you see them, doesn’t mean it is wrong, their beliefs might be different, and instead of changing them, we might have to adapt to how they think, even if it’s not what we believe. Students are very sensitive, their going through the hormones and the teenage life, things are not as always as easy as we believe them to be. They always think the world is out to get them, and so are you. You have to watch what you say around students, and most importantly, it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Your tone of voice can affect the words that you speak and how the student interprets what you are saying. Another case is that, you should stop blaming yourself for every time a student cries, or gets upset. Half the time a kid has a sudden outburst in your class from something you say, might not always have to deal with you. Like I said before, they are teenagers, and their all about fitting in and trying to survive their high school years. Now all these examples are for later on in the school year. Getting to know your kids is usually done the first day of school. The first day of school is the most important part because, everything is about first impressions. What you say, how they act, what they wear, how your classroom is organized, all depends on how conferrable the student will be in your classroom. The most important thing on the first day of school is to get them out of their comfort zone, not only with you, but with the people around them. The individual sees themselves as an I the first day they walk into class, eventually during the school year, you should have them see themselves as a, we, instead of an I. This involves social interactions from, discussing something about them the first day of class to working on a group project. The first day of school is also important because, often you make an ass out of you and the other person by making assumptions. Yes assumptions, we do it every day whether we are inside the classroom or outside in the real world. We stereotype, we don’t know we do it because it’s out of habit. In the classroom environment we single out who we want to sit next to, and who we want to talk to by stereotyping. That’s why some teachers change their seating charts each semester. Your classroom atmosphere is also important it will depend on how your students react towards one another. In the classroom we are still learning, we are not only learning the material that is given to us by the teachers, but day to day reactions and how to handle different situations. In a classroom as teachers we can manage these situations by showing the students that not everything they say or do is right, and stop their behavior. If you continue to let students continue their misinformation that they have learned, they will not accept the reality of the situation and learn responsibility from not repeating things that might damaged them socially. Being a teacher isn’t only about learning how to teach the subject, but also how to teach kids the golden rule, and how to survive out there in the real world. School isn’t just a learning environment, but it’s also a social event.

Reflection 9

How aware you are, depends on what you’ve experienced, and of your understanding of that experience. Your awareness is not just about what you see, but it’s how you see it. We all know that not every individual is the same, so not everyone sees things the way you may see them. Awareness allows people to see things the way they want to see them, whether it’s through their morals, beliefs, or just how they feel about the situation. When you look at awareness through your morals, you’re also looking at things through your beliefs because they coincide with one another. When you’re awareness triggers something as familiar as the difference between a Christian, and a Catholic it’s from your past experience from being brought up in a religious setting, and what morals you choose to live by. Where as the experience you have what you feel about your awareness, is that the situation has come up before, have you ever had a gut feeling? This is exactly what a awareness feeling is, the part where you don’t know why what your about to do is good or bad, you’ve never done it before, and you haven’t experienced it, you just know that it shouldn’t be done. This awareness can also be influenced and changed by your perception, because as you get older your perception might change from what its original though about the problem was. Instead of creating a problem, you now have an understanding of a situation, but it’s not necessarily a problem. Awareness is more of a thinking process were the consciousness is your reaction, and control of your awareness. For example, remember your gut feeling? When your consciousness comes into control it allows you to act on your gut feeling. Your awareness allows you to feel what’s right and what’s wrong, were your consciousness allows you to respond to these feelings. They also stated that your consciousness keeps things in for safe keeping. I believe that this is true. I believe that it doesn’t only keep things for safe keeping, but it also hides things to protect you. As humans we are entitled to our own mistakes, and sometimes we say things without thinking. I believe that our awareness and conscious works together and helps us keep things in, so we don’t end up damaging ourselves. For example our awareness allows you to feel this gut feeling and the consciousness stops you from acting, and the end result, might be that some things are better left unsaid.