Do I have the full picture?

 Just like people say that there is always two sides to every story I also think that we dont ever have the full picture, there is always more to what we dont see or to what we dont know. We only see a portion or part of the picture or the moment that was being lived and this is the same thing with students.When I was reading through this weeks module there was a quote that caught my attention. It said “Teachers go into the field with limited understanding of the children…”(Bettina Love). It really stood out to me because it supports the idea that we dont have the full picture, specially when it comes to teachers and students. In college teachers learn the overall of student on how to understand their think and what curriuclum they should be teaching. A teacher never gets the opportunity to know their students at a 100%. Teachers are in charge of teaching a certain amount of curriculum to a certain amount students in one year, which is why teachers are first when it comes to wether or not they have the full picture. They go into the field knowing only what to teach to the students, they dont go in prepared for how the students will have their own disadvantages and advantages when learning and interacting. Each student will have their own different way of learning the curriculm and how open they are to interacting with the teacher and other students during class.These factors usually depend on the experiences they have lived as individuals. For example, many times students have a difficult time in school because feel different due to that they dont speak a certain language, they have different cultres or traditions or simply because they are a different color. Due to the obvious "differences" such as race, color and culture, a teacher doesnt ever know exactly what a students is going through or has gone through because they are considered different among each other. This makes it difficult for teacher to know in what way or how they should help the students.  A teacher, a person dont ever have the full picture, one doesnt know how the other person is feeling or what they have going on or what they have gone through. Which is why respect plays such an important role. We dont have the full picture, yet we should still respect what we dont see.

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  1. Andrea HernandezMarch 2, 2023 at 2:28 PM

    Hi Mariela, I like your post on this week’s compelling question! I agree with the idea that you are conveying how limited a teacher’s /professor’s knowledge is about their students. They are only taught what to teach and the possible methods to teach them. And, because a teacher is given at least a year to teach a certain group of children before the year ends and another year with a new fresh batch of students. That doesn’t leave much time for teachers to really connect or understand their students, especially their backgrounds. Though this doesn’t justify learning a bit about each child or a part of their identity, it is a different matter for students comprehending what they are taught. Every student is educated in the same skills, but their ‘differences’ and/or experiences cause certain students to struggle to absorb compared to others. This issue is acknowledged yet schools and teachers can only do very little such as one on one or extra help/time for those that need it. Therefore, most teachers or professors opt to respect their students when each understands the material all differently.

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