JAMILA LYISCOTT Rather than make assumptions about your students’ attitudes toward their own language practices, create critical, safe, and brave space to unpack what they already feel and know. If your racial, linguistic, or cultural identities differ from those of your students, be sure to regard this in how you…
I was going to choose the Bells Hooks quote, but I instead decided on this one. I am working in a school with a very diverse population of students and educators this semester. On the day of Freshman orientation my CT and I were inside the auditorium listening to the…
Quote: Adyemi Stembridge A brilliant teacher is never made effective through the use of any single strategy; rather, the brilliant teacher makes strategies effective in the context of broader goals and intentions. What does it mean to you connected to being a STEM teacher? To me this quote embraces the…
What does it mean to you connected to being a STEM teacher? JAMILA LYISCOTT As an educator, you probably have some pretty strong convictions about what constitutes excellence in your classroom. However, we do not often take the time to interrogate where our measures of excellence and standards are birthed.…
...the ability to teach the world to a child. Being a STEM teacher means creating and sprouting a child's curiosity in the world around them; pushing their limits and expanding their minds through complex and convoluted subjects. To be a science teacher, success doesn't stop with…
To me, being a STEM/Math teacher means an opportunity to change a broken system and help with my little piece of the puzzle to form something new and better. I have always been in love with school and the process of learning. I have also always been in love…
What does it mean to be a STEM teacher? To me, being a STEM teacher means sharing deeper understanding of the natural world with others. I want to teach stewardship and life skills and make connections to other disciplines and real life. Some of the things that particularly excite me…
What I value most about being a teacher is the ability to influence younger generations. I hope to be a positive influence on my students and to help them understand themselves, their bodies, and the world around them. I want to help them be comfortable in their own skin, to…
As I see it, being a math teacher is all about demystifying and humanizing math. Students can often feel alienated and confused by math because of its abstract, black-and-white nature, and I remember feeling that way about math myself. It doesn't have to be that way, though! Math…
What it means to be a STEM Teacher to me is giving students an opportunity to see what STEM is all about and have an understanding of what it is. The definition we are being told is, "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is a broad term used to group…