Thanks for your presentation, Brie! Like so many others said, the football analogy really helped me to understand capital more.
I thought our group’s discussion was really great. One of the things we focused on was obviously capital… we spoke about our own capital growing up and our capital as educators and how it may lead us to have different viewpoints from our students. For example, in my classroom this past year, my students wrote an “About the Author” page for their first published books, and it included as sentence on what the students want to be when they grow up. One of my girls wrote that she wants to work in Dunkin Donuts. When I read this, it bothered me – why is this her ultimate goal? Why does she not want to go to college or get a “better” job? Now, after discussion, I feel torn. Who am I to tell a student that her dream to work at DD isn’t good enough? How can I make that judgment when that could be all she knows? But at the same time, can I really impose my own beliefs about the importance of higher education on a student? My job as a teacher is not to tell students what to do, but assist in making students critical thinkers so that they can make their own informed decisions. This brings me back to my “I Am Poem” – I said that John Cawthorne helped me to get where I am without ever telling me what to do. I hope I can incorporate this teaching into my own career!
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