Watson To The Wise

 Every child deserves equal opportunity to get a quality education. We go to college to learn how to be good educators and learn the content of what we should be teaching these kids, but what I've gathered from most classes I've taken here is that you learn more from the students themselves than anything that a  textbook could teach you. Every school year, every class, every student will be completely different and as a teacher, you will absolutely have to adapt to this, and figure out a way to accommodate everyone. It is possible to include everyone into a curriculum and get through to all of your students, It may not be the easiest to come by, but it is do-able, and it is worth the kids getting the education that they deserve.  The things that I am willing to do in order to see all students succeed is to make the classroom a safe space that makes them feel like they want to learn, and  a place they are okay with growing and succeeding in. Listening to what the kids...

 Gender Affects the teaching profession in more ways than one. Based off of our textbook alone, women were struggling majorly in the late 1800s over inequality in male and female teachers. Male teachers were given the advantage of being able to attend whatever colleges they pleased with freedom of study choice (As long as they were wealthy white males), while women had to settle for "normal teachers colleges" where they were given no freedom to study anything else alongside it. Male educators were paid substantially more than female educators, and women were constantly seeing these hundreds of dollars that they were losing out on, purely because they are female. Women also saw inequalities with promotions in the workplace, whereas they were given no opportunity to level up, men were getting handed those higher paying jobs in schools without question. To them, a woman should never have a higher status than a man, and there is no possible way she could have the authority to bos...