The blog posting by Todd Felton titled: "Moving from Conflict to Peace" was interesting. I am wanting to teach Social Studies, and my job will be to show the relevance of history and events to my students. In order for my students to understand the significance of injustice of the past, by looking at the present maybe we will be able to help change the future; even if it's in their own family, school, or community.
The teacher in the article used three basic questions for the students in "Peace Circles" to approach conflicts What was the harm? Who is responsible? How can we fix it? What was exciting to me was the fact that students began taking responsibility of their own actions, in one of their own conflicts with other students. This is a good example of culturally responsive teaching because, the teacher allowed the students to work in groups to work out problems, and listen to one another. In my opinion this is a life long lesson.
No comments:
Post a Comment