What lengths am I willing to go to in order to do right by every child?

    As a teacher, building trust in the classroom will be very important to me. I will let every student know that their lives are extremely important to me and they are able to reach out to me about anything they want to. I will assure them that they are in a safe and friendly environment in my classroom and any negative or scary situations they can talk to me about and I will give them the best advice or care. I will also make sure my classroom is like a family and teach them how to handle people of different backgrounds because that is something that will play a huge role in them being successful growing up.

    It is so important as educators that we are giving each student the opportunity to be heard and listen to in the classroom. This can involve looking through each curriculum and developing a plan to have the ones who connect with it share their experiences. This was seen in “The Culturally Responsive Teacher” when they had given an example of an immigrant student that would learn more and also inform her fellow classmates if in social studies she was able to tell her side of her immigration story or have her parents talk about their experiences. This will help connect the topic they are learning with real experiences that their classmates have gone through. As teachers this connection helps build a bridge between students home lives and their school lives helping them become comfortable in the classroom.