Some reflect and collects about our day at the African Heritage Dancing and Drumming and SEED school!
Colleen Burger:
So often, as teachers, we introduce ourselves by our content area; "I'm an English major"----"I"m a biology major." We learned today, though, that before we can even consider our content area or subject matter, we must first create people of our students. We must first become people teachers. Urban or rural, money or not, we all come from places and have experiences that tell us we are unworthy --people who make us believe we cannot succeed or even be helped. Everyone in this room, though, in one way or another, has moved beyond and succeeded in spite of that negativity. Now, then, it's our job --not to teach Hamlet or mitosis -- but to believe in and love our students so that they can go forth as whole beings with an internal conviction to achieve nothing less than greatness. As we learned today, we must recreate the personhood and self esteem in all of our students and peers -- black or white, young or old-- because, in the end, isn't that what it's all about? How could we ever go forth without it?
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