Who are you as a teacher now? Let us embark on this journey together!
This course supports you as you continue to grow into powerful educators! You will build community and solidarity with your colleagues to grow your unique and empowering professional stances, through independent and collaborative reflection on your goals and instruction.You will begin a teaching portfolio which will be added to in each course you embark on in your CU journey in which you will demonstrate, and reflect on your growth across the semester, always centering the work and your growth through the question: “Who am I as a teacher now?”
This course allows space for our community of educators to understand equitable values and beliefs as student-centered educators. You’ll study the vital concepts of dialogical education and the idea of love as a critical stance by carefully reading and analyzing Paulo Friere’s work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. You will then apply these tenets to working with families, and to interpreting the world through the lenses of race, gender, and social class.
You will also use the critical stances of dialogue and love to study your own instruction and the instruction of your fellow residents, as well as how to study students through classroom and behavioral assessment and how to respond with intent and justice.
- Teacher: Soljane Martinez