Saturday, November 26, 2016
Understanding Identity
For educators, it is absolutely paramount to understand students' backgrounds and their self-identity. Their background is rooted in who they are, and their self-identity is the greatest aspect of who they are. Self-identity can stay the same over time, but for adolescents, it is often ever changing or in the process of being found. As a future educator, I will only be able to reach and engage students if I have the ability to understand where they individually are in their self-identity. Attached is a Venn Diagram comparing some similarities and differences between my identity and my ELL partner's identity.
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Hello Christian! This comparison was very well done. While you and your ELL student clearly have different cultural experiences, you have found many ways in which you are actually quite similar. I hope that as you continue to get to know your student better, you continue to find more ways in which Nepali culture differs from American culture.
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