Blog post #2

 "The Silenced Dialogue" by Lisa Delpit - Quotes

My plan in the future is to be an elementary school teacher. As a teacher your goal is to be able to educate your students and make them feel like they are cable of learning and they belong. Teachers are left with a lot of responsibility and power, when teaching students it is important to not just teach with methods that work for you but for the students and see their strengths. After reading "The Silenced Dialogue", one quote I found was "It's not that they disagree with the former aim, it's just that they wanted something more. They want to ensure that the school provides their children with discourse patterns, interactional styles, and spoken and written language codes that will allow them success in the larger society." It is important to remember that these kids are being taught not just to learn in school but to be able to learn and be prepared for the real world. The students should be able to interact and learn from others. More, the students should have a voice and feel comfortable enough to share to the class what they know and learned but also know classroom rules and know when the right time to share is. "In other words, the attempt by the teacher to reduce an exhibition of power by expressing herself in indirect terms may remove the very explicitness that the child needs to understand the rules of the new classroom culture." Kids react differently and some listen better than others, however, if you speak to them in a certain way they will obey and respect you. For example, "Is this where the scissors belong?", "You want to do your best work today." or "Put those scissors on that shelf.", "Put your name on the papers and make sure to get the right answer for each question." These are two examples of separate teachers teaching, one is asking the students questions which makes them more likely to not obey, rather than the other teacher depending what to do which leads them to obey. When teaching it is important that you know how to teach all kinds of students and adapt to their learning styles that benefit to them.