After our Symposium, our presentation at Wits, we were all asked to write a Changemaker Pledge that addressed the following questions:
Here is my Changemaker Pledge! I want to be more reflective within myself and who I am as a person and as an educator. I’ve learned how important it is to truly understand your background and who you are in order to understand how to reach your own students. In order to create that connection with students, parents and colleagues you have to understand where you're coming from so that you can understand the backgrounds of others and where others are coming from as well. In order to make sure my solutions are sustainable I think you have to try it. Try and see what works and keep on trying. If it isn't a right fit or if it doesn't work out as planned change it up. My main goal is to keep trying these solutions until one of them works for everyone and in the way that I hope. I think collaborating with parents, teachers, and students and working together as a team is also a great way to keep each other accountable and making solutions sustainable. In order to be the best Changemaker I can be, I plan on self reflecting on my own teaching and continuously learning what I should be doing or can do as a Changemaker. I loved being able to work with my group and really connected, but I defintiely would've loved more time togetehr to keep discussing the amazing ideas we all had. I also really enjoyed hearing what other groups had to say and wish we could've started smaller discussions based off of their work as well. Overall, I was able to leanr from so many didn't people in different positions and locations. Before it was hard for me to really reflect and think about who I was in order to learn fully from others , but with the help of my team we were able to pull it out of each other and really connect on an educational level. It was amazing to see how education really connected all of us and how passionate we all are. After this experience I realized just how important collaboration/good collaboration is for a school environment and in general. It was an incredible learning experience.
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Study AbroadThis June I have gotten the opportunity to travel to South Africa to observe policies and practices of the education systems. I will be working with students and educators from the U.S. and South Africa on a Changemaker Project. Our hope is to bring awareness to the different types of diverse learners in the U.S., South Africa and all over. Archives
August 2018
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