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My world view has influenced my practice and relationships as an educator. My personality tree will be used to explain what has influenced my world view. Mrs. Rousseau taught us that “our world view helps us locate our place and rank in the universe and influences our beliefs, values, attitudes, uses of time and other aspects of culture”ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "Leadership and Counseling Diverse Cultures in Education", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Rousseau", "given" : "Julie", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2015" ] ] }, "page" : "1-15", "publisher-place" : "Abbotsford, British Columbia.", "title" : "No Title", "type" : "report" }, "uris" : [ "" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Rousseau, 2015)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "" }(Rousseau, 2015). Exploring my world view will help me have cultural competence and responsiveness as I will better understand my biasesADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "Leadership and Counseling Diverse Cultures in Education", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Rousseau", "given" : "Julie", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2015" ] ] }, "page" : "1-15", "publisher-place" : "Abbotsford, British Columbia.", "title" : "No Title", "type" : "report" }, "uris" : [ "" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Rousseau, 2015)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "" }(Rousseau, 2015). My world view was influenced by my grandfather, my father and my mother. They are my roots. Joquim Figueiredo, my grand father, was born in Goa, India in 1907. At 17 he moved, by himself, to Nairobi, Kenya in search of work. He found a position as an accountant for the government and was the first coloured man to be promoted to a senior management level with the British Kenyan Government. He was very intelligent and was also good at fixing and building things. Members of his community would often come and ask him for advice or help. Later in life when he had servants, he would be seen working in his yard with his servants. My grandfather believed there was always a way to achieve a goal if you are willing to work hard. Whether leaving his family at 17 to working for a government who did not deem him equal, he worked hard and succeeded. My father and mother also both believed in honest hard work. They also believed in family and taught me that the value of a man is not the amount of money he earns or the amount of time he spends working, it is the level of love and devotion for his wife and children. These are values I work hard to realize. Losing my father when I was 12 and my mother when I was 35 has made me grateful for every day that I am alive. My mother was an educator and she taught me that the ability to learn is a gift and it is important for myself to be a lifelong learner. A lifelong learner is an important piece of an educator as a caring intellectualADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "Leadership and Counseling Diverse Cultures in Education", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Rousseau", "given" : "Julie", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2015" ] ] }, "page" : "1-15", "publisher-place" : "Abbotsford, British Columbia.", "title" : "No Title", "type" : "report" }, "uris" : [ "" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Rousseau, 2015)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "" }(Rousseau, 2015) She modeled this behavior. At the core of my trunk is that I believe that anyone can learn if they feel valued. My students do not remember much of what I have taught them but will remember how they felt in my class. I make a point to know all my students names and to make connections with them. The branches of my tree are my wife Jessica, my brother Darren, my Step father Tony and my step brothers Dave and Mike. Jessica embodies passion. She is passionate about her art and she is passionate about learning. With a learning disability, she has overcome all obstacles through hard work and she was recently accepted to the UFV TEP teaching program. She has dreamt about being a teacher since she was in primary school and her passion for learning ignites my with passion for learning and teaching. My brother Darren is a phamacutical executive and models hard work. He is so passionate about his job that he works 16 hour days, 5-6 days a week. He inspires me to put in the time to be the best husband and educator I can be. Tony was a high school principal and Dave is a high school principal and Mike is a middle school counselor. They are educators who are committed to life long learning and they have helped fuel my passion for learning. I attended public school in a middle class neighborhood in Chilliwack, B.C. I really wanted to attend St. Georges Cathoic School in Vancouver where my two best friends went to school but my mother did not want me living away from home. I felt as though the best option for me in public school would be in the French Immersion Program so I attended the late French Immersion program in Chilliwack when I was in grade 6. After graduating from high school I moved to Victoria and completed my undergraduate degree and teacher education program at UVic. I moved to Montreal, Quebec and taught there for three years before moving back to Chilliwack, B.C. My political and educational views were influenced by the liberal university I attended. Most of my education occurred outside the classroom. When I was a child my family travelled extensively and I have continued to travel often as an adult. My world view has been influenced by my travels. I have spent long periods of time in India and the extreme wealth and poverty altered my perception of the world. It also has made me extremely grateful for the chances I have had in life. My world view is empowered by the students, buds, I teach. What my students need as an education is not what I received as an education. The technological revolution has changed the world for good and my students have taught me that their education needs to change with the world. They don’t need to know simply how to solve a problem. They need to know how to figure out what the problem is. They need inquiry based personalized learning. Teaching at an online school has given me the opportunity to heavily incorporate technology into my students education and to provide a format for learning that works for them. My students range from children of Canadian diplomats to students who are too anxious to leave their house. Each student has different needs and different values and I provide a personalized education for each of them according to their needs. The freedom I have in the manner I educate my students is inspiring to me. My achievements, fruits, have impacted my world view. My greatest achievement is a wife who feels loved, heard and supported. I own my home which is a peaceful and pleasant place to live. I have a career that I am passionate about and I am respected amongst my peers. I am a life long learner and will continue to be for the rest of my life. I am also a good, honest and loyal friend. My flowers are the things that make me special and my strengths. My ability to be a loyal, honest and good husband and friend is my most special attribute. I am a passionate educator who makes connections with his students. When I have taught provincial exam courses, my students have always ranked higher than the provincial average. I am inquisitive and like to build things. If I do not know how to build something, I will ask someone who does if they can teach me or watch a tutorial on youtube. This is an example of how I am a life long learner. I am also a humble man. I have and have had many thorns, or challenges, in my life. For most of my teens and twenties I suffered with alcoholism. When learning how to not drink, I learned to fail forward. It took me many years and many stumbles to get sober and I have now been sober for many years. Another challenge I have is extreme anxiety that came on shortly after I was sober and is a constant challenge for myself. I use cognitive behavioral therapy to overcome my anxiety. My world view influences my practice by making me a cultural responsive teacher. My world view helps me to build on what students already know, help students understand there is more than one way of knowing, encourage students to embrace their culture and develop a love of learning, highlight students’ strengths, and give them confidence to confront their weaknessesADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "abstract" : "Leadership and Counseling Diverse Cultures in Education", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Rousseau", "given" : "Julie", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2015" ] ] }, "page" : "1-15", "publisher-place" : "Abbotsford, British Columbia.", "title" : "No Title", "type" : "report" }, "uris" : [ "" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Rousseau, 2015)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "" }(Rousseau, 2015). In my Social Studies 8 and 9 class I use the culture and experiences of minority groups as a scaffold to learning. This has been influenced by my extensive travels throughout the world. My grand-father and my parents belief that there is always a way to achieve a goal if you are wiling to work hard enough has influenced my practice by teaching me that failure of any child is not an option. My time in French Immersion and teaching in Montreal has influenced me to be an educator who creates an environment that reflects cultural and linguistic diversity and my wife’s learning disability has influenced me to teach through different learning styles. I don’t want to be the teacher who lets an amazing student feel like a failure because they learn differently. Trunk- what do I firmly believe about learning?Branches – if I look at the branch of a tree, those are all the relationships I have had, or lack of, or breech of relationship have shaped who I am, places I have goneLeaves- what is my education? What type of knowledge or course or person influenced or changed the way I saw the world. Did losing my father change the way I see the world and who I am and life in general. Could be a really bad situation that happened to me that I thought would take me down but I grew from it.Buds – the ideas and hope for the future for myself and my students. How is my worldview empowered by the students I teach. Fuits – what have I achieved that has impacted my world view. Flowers – what makes me special and what are my strengthsThorns – what have been my challengesDiversStrengths and weakness of self regulationLook at brain researchBeliefs and attitudes: are they the difficult ones? What are the attitudes towards students with self regulation.What are their norms and values regarding family structureAre there any religious or political views that apply to their regulationAre there situational (low income, demographics, High ELL area? , kids of immigrant families, DO confliufDiverse cultures in Education 8:00-:820 Explanation of course8;30-9 Activity: What is respect9:00-9:20 Diversity Vocabulary9:15-10:15 What is culture and diversity10:15 -10:30 Coffee Break10:30-12:00 World View and Perceptions12:00-12:45 Lunch12:45 – 2:30 Cultural perceptions2:30-4 work on paperReflections 10% 1 pageCultural Exploration Paper 20% - no research 4-6 pages Due next classCulture research paper and presentation 30%Leadership Development Paper 25%Attendace and Particippation 15%What is respectDoes the golden rule always work?Crucial ingredient when discussing often controversial multicultural issuesPoint is to learn from our differences and understand each other’s understandingsEmpathyRespect is something we generally value:What is the difference between:Aspirational ValuesWhat we strive for, hope and feelPractical ValuesWhat we actually do, say and practice.How did it feel like when…Resistance TheoryDiscriminationCulture of Poverty ................
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