Poetry

One of my favorite poems is Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Although I really enjoy this particular Shel Silverstein poem i think that many children would enjoy his poems. I think that i would use his works as a whole in my classroom. An activity that I could use is to allow the children to pick one of his poems that they like. Then they could choose a way to represent the poem in a creative way. I think this would be a fun way to get students excited about poetry.

Freedom Writers

This is one of my favorite movies. It is truly inspirational. When we think about teaching we hope for the perfect little class, but this shows that is not always the reality. Also, that not so perfect classes can be just as rewarding. I love that Hilary Swanks character is not afraid to have an open discussion with these children. I am taking ed. psych right now and this clip definitely relates to the guidelines for teaching a multicultural classroom. These guidelines say that a teacher needs to get to know her students, their families, and their communities in order to be able to teach them. Also, because I have seen this movie I know that her character spends time with her students outside of the classroom which is yet another guideline for teaching multicultural classrooms. It is great to be able to see things that we are learning in our classroom in action.