Creating Culturally Relevant Education

I actually enjoyed watching this video about Creating Culturally Relevant Education. I liked hearing the different cultures and how school was in different places. Teachers in Pakistan are more like your mothers, one of the students explained. They care about your actual learning instead of how your grades look and if you obey the rules. “It like you have a mom at school, and a mom at home”. These students get the point across that today teachers need to break the traditional roles. Breaking these roles will get teachers out of the just getting through the class and not really caring. In order to be successful in school you have to have a teacher that loves their job, and supports their students.

In the video it shows a quote:

As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration…”

When this quote came on the screen I thought it was extremely powerful. It is important teachers do not use their power as torture, but as inspiration. Inspiration is what students need to succeed. Another student mentions how her teacher in the past has helped her through a lot of things because she supported and pushed her. The teacher would always ask her how everyone was at home, and gave her that motivation she needed to come back to school everyday instead of giving up. They grew a bond with the student as a mentor, more then a teacher. I think today teachers need to combine being a teacher and being a mentor for their students. Teachers need to challenge themselves and challenge their students to get to know them with a deeper connection.