EDF2085-Reflection #11

Many of the topics discussed in Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes are very important when speaking of the concepts of teaching. For example, the same way we have authority in cultures to assure us that a belief or something is true, it is almost exactly the same thing teachers do. Many beliefs end up being determined by the culture through observations and day to day activities. This is how they determine certain beliefs. Values are something very important to us. It is something that we should carry with us everywhere throughout our lifetime. Each and every one of them represents the goals we have, our judgments, and pertain to all of our different beliefs. I learned that us as teachers will be able to observe a student’s values by seeing the way they are and act towards different things. These types of values are called conceived values. A person’s attitude is also a really important attribute because it relates to our beliefs, and this is where feelings are also involved. It is important to be able to judge a student’s attitude to determine if it is a negative or positive one and why. These are all different strategies that I learned about, and different things lead up or determine something else. Everything is like a chain reaction. It is all part of a cognitive component. It is important to know that beliefs, attitudes, and values can be changed or altered. If they wouldn’t be able to be changed then we wouldn’t be able to function with multicultural awareness. What was also very striking for me was all the different acts of prejudice that can come about. Because once you are a teacher, you also have to make sure not to avoid or discriminate any individual for any matter. This is another one of the things that I found most important because it is important to apply in a classroom with students. This will cause them not to learn to their full potential because they will feel a block in the relationship between the two of you. All these behaviors are the result of rejection and a student will feel this tension. You have to be aware to form a comfort zone for the student and make all of them feel superior equally, not one group more than another.