792My goal as a teacher and as a Touro student is to help students become better learners. If I can help all of my students, yes even my reluctant learners, then my goal matches a major goal of the Touro College of Education: promote social justice through education.
My hope is that by developing better questioners, my most reluctant learner group, my Hispanic boys, will gain their voice. By gaining their voice through questions, then maybe, they may become stronger learners who can change their own future and our community's future for the better. My fellow cohort members have already supported me through this process (and I hope that I have reciprocated well).
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Karly Miller
6/9/2017 12:39:02 pm
Hi Todd,
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Kelley S. Miller
6/10/2017 02:15:56 pm
You had me at reluctant learner. I think that if you throw that pair of words at any teacher, you'll get their attention at whiplash-speed. Don't we all wrestle with the conundrum that we can pour so much energy and creativity into engaging the reluctant learner, yet still yield so little progress? You're putting Touro's goals for social justice into specific teacher-speak. Find a way to light a spark in those kids, and you plant the seeds of change in family and community.
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6/11/2017 10:17:02 pm
I love your post! In 2 words on point. My favorite part is
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