Learner Diversity Blog #3 due by Sunday night September 15th at midnight
Learner Diversity, Identity, and Self-Reflection.
Having an accurate sense of self has a lot to do with being an inspiring professional. This week’s chapter has us reading about learner diversity. This is such an important topic anywhere, but here in the greater South Bay area we have so much diversity that this topic is an imperative!
I believe that good teaching/counseling begins in the transformed heart of the teacher/counselor.
One of my favorite authors, Parker J. Palmer, in his inspiring book “The Courage To Teach,” writes the following:
“The question we most commonly ask is the ‘what’ question - ‘What subjects shall we teach?’ When the conversation goes a bit deeper, we ask the ‘how’ question - ‘What methods and techniques are required to teach well?’ Occasionally, when it goes deeper still, we ask the ‘why’ question - ‘For what purpose and to what ends do we teach?’ But seldom, if ever, do we ask the ‘who’ question - ‘Who is the self that teaches? How does the quality of my selfhood form - or deform - the way I relate to my students, my subject, my colleagues, my world? How can educational institutions sustain and deepen the selfhood from which good teaching comes?’”
Blog - Read my article “How School Taught Me I Was Poor” and write a response.