Attitudes
A situation from my experience in which attitudes were successfully challenged was when as teachers we behaved in an unhelpful way where students instead of feeling included feel excluded. For example when we as teachers tell students that they supposed to know and be able to do something but in reality they cannot. I believe that the words and how we approach to students can truly affect them emotionally. As an educator, I would state that I need to be more vigilant and observe carefully each and everyone of my students. I can also give them diagnostic tests to find out the level they are and find ways and plan interventions to help them out instead of telling them that they supposed to know such concepts already. As an educator, I should be a caring, helpful and understandable individual with all my students. I should encourage them, motivate them and enlighten them and should not bring them down I must uplift them.
I start by agreeing with Chan that attitude are very important and can deter learning or enhance it depending on how they are expressed. In my experience as a teacher educator there was this occasion where a visually impaired learner in my class politely told off his peers(visually enabled) who wanted to offer him unwarranted/too much help to just let him find his writing materials from his bag by himself -meaning he was not badly off rummaging through his bag with his hands to find what he needed! While this gesture did not put off his peers in a bad way, it challenged their attitude which bordered more on sympathy rather than empathy- from that day other learners realized that a disabled does not always sit back awaiting help from others but that they are most willing to do things for themselves where and when they can manage on their own! They neede to be given an opportunity to try.
As an educator, my role is to encourage participation of all learners in whichever school setting they may find themslves whether classwork or during co -curricual activities.Participation goes hand in hand with support and collaboration at school.
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