like this one and I remember one of the
speakers saying that the roof of the
word education to reduce means to draw
like to draw information from an
individual and I thought that this is
really interesting courses sounds very
next philosophically but being the
skeptical person that I am I decided to
look it up and I found that there isn’t
one but two routes to the word education
and they’re both very different the
first in new cherry does meat drop but
the second a new car a means to train or
mold so these two ideas like I said are
very different perhaps even the
antithesis of each other and they have
the potential to play very different
roles and how we go forth with our
education policy here in the US I think
that our current education system
reflects the training molding method and
this is shown you our reliance on common
core and standardized tests all done and
with the goal of testing and training
students and very specific knowledge
bases however we also know that our
schools here in the US are very flawed
and a lot of ways as a result of these
very narrow refuelings our teachers have
lost the ability to cater to students
needs as individuals and we know that
this can helps contribute to a larger
group at risk youth especially in areas
I pulled up here where resources are
very slim between public schools in fact
we just had a whole social justice we
carry our cadia talking about the school
to Prison Pipeline and this is just one
aspect of this issue so what do we do
about this I think that we need to shift
our focus from the training and molding
to the drawing out method
education and while it was very
difficult for educators to do this given
current education policy which is harder
to change I think we can accomplish this
through mentors and mentorship programs
in public schools mentors are wonderful
sources because of their relatability
and their understanding in the classroom
so what do you think of I popped icons
like Hamilton or Monty Python they’re so
great because they’re able to take these
really complicated topics and channel
them figure local narratives that people
can still understand similarly mentors
our multiple resources for crossing the
divide between student and teacher were
readily resulting in a much more
interpersonal relationship I say this
for two reasons first mentors have three
space to help students as they need
we’re not educators bound by curricula
me or my standards even though we have
certain topics which were meant to cover
our only real goal in a classroom is to
help that student however we can do you
are neighbors alumni leaders in our
community and we have the experience to
help these students which is the second
point because we are so close
generationally to our students as
mentors coming
by the years of course we are able to
help them with issues that arise in
current society so we can help because
we’ve been there put it simply whether
it’s learning how to cope with your high
school experience they’re getting ready
for college or going through the job
market we have that label experience
that is useful to our students and of
course this goes both ways because then
as mentors we learn about our future
co-workers our future fellow citizens
which is also very helpful for building
a society so then the first off of
Mentor i think is to build self
confidence within the student which in
turn encourages confidence between the
student and the academic system so when
i think of this Technic of examples you
may have seen in social media teachers
using personal information a part of
their daily routine they do these really
large high five teams on the way to the
classroom gets big amped up or the hot
students stand and do local
confidence-building exercises and I
think these practices are nothing short
of amazing to make students whose
experiences that education system are
usually less than positive suddenly
excited to learn and excited we working
towards their future and I had the
privilege of being the start of heart
would want such an organization on the
breakthrough collaborative Greater
Philadelphia Philadelphia I was a
student teacher there for a class of
middle school students on saturday
morning at school so as you can imagine
it’s very different and difficult to
teach you in middle school students on a
Saturday morning without inspiring a
sense of positivity and
so every morning we had about 50
students in a room we haven’t stand and
they would say our mission statement but
we would say the mucin inspiring
community and we would say it while
moving around and dancing and doing all
these great things that just really
encourage your positivity and so then
what I learned from this experience is
that our goal as teachers is to build
this confidence within students so that
they let us hear their opinions and
ideas and then as mentors we take those
opinions and ideas and we listen the
goal is to actively listen to what
they’re saying not just for the right
answer and then so their ideas they
don’t feel is that they’re cast aside or
misinterpreted and then finally as peers
we take this understanding and we
validate them and we validate their
viewpoint in the world while also
challenging them to enlarge that scope
and to think of others of their
experiences and other possibilities and
we do all this and hopes their students
become successful citizens which after
all is the ball status goal of Education
not just a number on the page so as
students who have been there and who are
still there who better than us through the hope and find a way