Lindzie Page’s Blog

  My game plan to do right by every child is to make sure they are offered equal opportunities, educate myself on all my students and their families, and make sure my teaching is culturally responsive. My students will be offered equal opportunities by giving them the freedom to express themselves in their school work, they will be encouraged to express themselves with their culture and their beliefs, and will have the same expectations when given an assignment. I will go out of my way to become familiar with my students backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences. This will encourage your students and their families to feel safe, respected, and understood by you as their teacher.     According to, “3 tips to make any lesson more culturally responsive” the biggest things are to Gamify it, Make it social, and Storify it. Truly I believe the first and most important step would be to truly understand the definition of culturally responsive teaching which is knowing how to teach to...

  I believe there are many stereotypes about gender that affect teachers/students     within the teaching profession such as; only women being teachers, boys have more behavioral problems/score lower, girls typically are better behaved and score higher. These are just a few that I have heard other teachers talk about or have witnessed while being in a classroom. It’s our job as teachers to not teach our children based off of who they are or where they come from, but to teach them based on what they need to learn to be successful in our classrooms and for years to come.   As stated in, “The Gender Spectrum” Gender exists between your ears—it’s how you feel about yourself. Kids develop a sense of gender identity by age two or three.” You may have students that their “sex” is male, but their gender and how they identify is as a female, or vise versus. It’s important to be educated on these topics, so we can appropriately communicate, teach, and learn from our trans...

I do not think we will ever have the full picture; with any circumstance we are faced in life. I feel as if I have had to go out of my way, more times than I can remember to research additional information on topics in order to find out the entire picture. It’s our job as future teachers to make sure we are providing and learning the full picture ourselves and then teaching that knowledge to our students. Students have the right to be fully educated on all topics . In this week's module, I watched Victoria's video on Integration and Ruby Bridges. She explained how in school she only learned a small portion about Integration in school, and how she was never informed about Ruby Bridges and the unfortunate events she had to encounter. I can relate to this because in my Kinder-12th grade education, I was not informed about this either, it was n’t until my sophomore year history class here at Texas State University that I learned about this. This also ties back into last week...