Life Long Learner

     When it comes to my own personal experiences dealing with cultural experiences in the past as a student- there isn't much to say. I have learned that my time learning as a student versus learning to become an educator is vastly different. I have to say that in my opinion culturally responsive practices are somewhat new. I am sure that veteran teachers have to go to extra seminars and learn culturally responsive practices through before the year conferences with their peers and respected principals etc. However, growing up in the classroom I never witnessed a diversity primarily in the way materials were presented, nor the diversity that should exist in classroom books and resources. Although the climate of the classrooms I grew up in were not generally negative experiences, I believe diversity has really become a main topic to discuss and implement within the education system. Growing up, I didn't see often diversity in terms of classroom books and resources. The one...

   I'm excited to begin my blogger journey related to literacy education. This is my first blog that I've ever created so I'm a bit nervous and apprehensive about figuring out all the controls related to operating a blog. However, I am hoping to discover more throughout my education courses and link information I've newly found to make sense of what I've learned. I've always wanted to have a blog growing up and never took the leap and created one for myself. I believe this new beginning will be eye opening in the end, to see how far I've come and learned along a short amount of time.   I hope to learn about more methods to incorporate in my classroom to differentiate for my students. I've taken a course prior to prepare me for the ESL certification I will obtain- but teachers are always life long learners. I love to approach every single day with the confidence that I can learn at least one new source of information in any area of my life, especially for...