EP172 Some things a teacher shouldn't be "neutral" about...
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 1 September 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Your worldview shapes your classroom management and curriculum choices, whether consciously or not. Let's examine and question the belief that "neutral" is the only ethical position for us to take, and interrogate whether being neutral is even possible in certain contexts.
To be true advocates for our students and have strong, authentic relationships with them, we have to fully embrace and support their identities, and be willing to take a stand when they are discriminated against, bullied, or marginalized.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 172 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:11.0 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to share a different perspective on teachers being |
| 0:19.0 | quote neutral about their beliefs in the classroom. |
| 0:22.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the about their beliefs in the classroom. |
| 0:23.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, |
| 0:26.0 | or find our new Truth for Teachers podcast community on Facebook. |
| 0:29.0 | You can show your thoughts on the show there |
| 0:31.0 | and reflect with other listeners in our private group. |
| 0:35.0 | A big thanks to Advancement Courses for sponsoring today's show. |
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| 1:03.0 | So a story came through my Twitter feed a few weeks ago that I just haven't been able to stop |
| 1:10.4 | thinking about. |
| 1:11.1 | It was about a Delhi owner who was giving a free able to |
| 1:15.0 | stop thinking about a deli owner who was giving a free side dish to any customer who |
| 1:17.1 | yelled send them back when they got their order. |
| 1:21.0 | Now if you miss this reference it is referring to a July speech that Trump gave, and |
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