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In Community With Students As Changemakers, Robyn Orozco
In Community With Students As Changemakers, Robyn Orozco
Claremont Graduate University School of Education Teacher Education
The purpose of reflection is to analyze experiences in order to raise questions, decide what works best, and be in a constant state of learning and growing as a person. This ethnography is a written account of my journey as a first year teacher and social justice educator in which I share stories, artifacts, and ongoing reflection of myself and my teaching practice. Through this reflection, I explore my background and positionality, connections made with students, and sensemaking of various practices in my classroom. In addition, I describe our shared class experience of examining social issues and the power of …
Preparing Teachers & Teacher Education Professionals For Dimensions Of Diversity: A Study Of Pedagogical Responses To Diversity In Distance Learning And Traditional Instruction, Rocky Blessey-Bragg
Preparing Teachers & Teacher Education Professionals For Dimensions Of Diversity: A Study Of Pedagogical Responses To Diversity In Distance Learning And Traditional Instruction, Rocky Blessey-Bragg
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This qualitative study framed in Albert Bandura’s Self-Efficacy theory involved 6 teachers from Chaffey Joint Union high School District and 8 teacher education professionals from teacher education programs in southern and central California. It examined reported pedagogical strategies in responding to specific dimensions of classroom diversity: culture, readiness and economics. Participants took Bandura’s Self-Efficacy survey prior to the first of two semi-structured interviews. In the second of those interviews, each group had the opportunity to react to findings from the first round of interviews from their own group and the opposite, as to how their perceptions of diversity have evolved …