Monday, May 13, 2013
Initial Bolg
1. What inspires and excites you most about your advocacy plan and being an advocate?
What inspires me most about my advocacy plan is that teacher's may see students differently. That they may not label children but see that they need to learn in a different style other than what they are teaching in.
2. What challenges and/or anxieties do you feel related to engaging in the advocacy efforts you have targeted?
The anxiety I fell related in my advocacy effort is speaking clearly in front of a group of teachers and convincing them to change their habits in teaching. I have been sitting in meetings and watching speakers' body language and taking notes on how they present their information.
3. What do you believe will be most effective in helping you overcome any challenging emotions you may be feeling with regard to presenting and implementing your Advocacy Action Plan?
Practicing on small groups before will help me to overcome my fear of public speaking. I will ask my 'practice' audience to give me suggestions on how to improve my presentation. I will take these suggestions into consideration to improve. I will be asking someone to prof read my reading material as well.
4. How can you encourage others in their advocacy efforts, and how can others encourage you?
My encouragement for others in this class is to do as I am doing in #3. If you do not speak well in front of a live audience then practice. But to everyone my advice is to have someone prof read your paper and find mistakes you have missed. A fresh set of eyes never hurt. I'll take any advice anyone can give me; please and thank you :)
A quote that I like is "it takes a village to raise a child", I like this because I am always asking my parents and grandmother for advice. I have a very close family structure and we all count on each other for one reason or another.
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Christina I think that practicing before a small group is a great idea. I am not comfortable with public speaking either and I am getting so nervous about this presentation. I also think that body language play a big part when presenting to a group of people, so being calm is important. Thank you for your advice. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. Talking to teacher to convince them to change what they are doing and have them look at me, and think, "What do you know about a working classroom". That scares me too. My other fear is that they are all opposed to me and my ideas and want to argue with me. That is a huge fear of mine that they ask questions to me that I can not answer.
ReplyDeleteMy advise to you about public speaking is to take deep breaths and know your material, in case you lose your spot on your note cards. Good Luck to you.
I agree that teachers definitely see that children learn differently. In my host classroom, there are 3 specific children that always get a little out of hand and impatient when I am there and integrating lessons for my other classes. I really enjoy seeing that the teacher knows just what to do for those children because she knows their background, and she knows how they learn and what level they are at. She never makes it a big deal, which is also a great thing for the students because it is not an attention-getter from the other students. I think that not all teachers will be willing to change the way that they teach, if it works for them. However, I do know that things often change in the teaching world and with extra training I think that teachers would be willing to improve themselves in the classroom. Great post!
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