I think this shows that children
are at an age when they see anyone do any act they want to try it
themselves. The students look highly up
to teachers because they are the head of the classroom so if a teacher does
something and a student sees them do that they will want to try it. Teachers are not the only models in a
classroom. Students are also a model in
more ways because they play with each other and will follow each other and be
friends. Also if anyone that comes into
the classroom that is an adult can also be a model for good or bad.
Cultural factors will definitely
affect the students that I teach because at this age because all the boys will
look up to males and girls will look up to females. Luckily culture is changing especially in the
gender gap role. Women have jobs that
were thought to only be for men and vise-versa, but culture has still not
completely changed so it will also affect the classroom depending on what
language the students speak at home.
The rules I will have in my
classroom is that you are not allowed to speak while I am talking. I will model this by not talking while
someone I called on is talking. Also
students have to try even if they do not want to. I will be a model for this by working with
the students and helping them to be motivated in the subject matter that we are
going over at that time.
I don't think students will want to model teachers ALL the time. Do high school students want to model everything their 78 year old english instructor does/says? (Probably not) Why not? Do you all want to model me? (as a different scenario) Maybe, maybe not....
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's always true that males look to males and females look to females--that's a bit strong. Gender may play a small role but it's only one factor.
Will not interrupting be THE distinguishing factor of what it means to be a member of your classroom? (Will that determine whether they're in the culture?)