TE 448

In Te 448 this week I presented on the book titled The Heart of A Chief by Joseph Bruchac. Although I was quite nervous about presenting I thought it went very well. As I listened to my peers discuss my question I learned a lot about the schools they went to and the ideas that that had given them on how to celebrate diverse cultures in the classroom. It made me think if the author had ideas about how this sort of teaching strategy would look in the classroom or what would make it authentic celebration rather than just surface level. How do you get your students to want to learn & be interested in learning about their classmate's culture? When coming up with my question I was curious to see if I was taking the text in a different way then my classmates, discussing as group I saw that everyone had different interpretations and even on sentence was causing a group discussion about what it meant and how it was to be understood. It is on page 54 of the text, " Pizza has given up on being a Penacook. Be a Chief instead of being an Indian." Hearing everyone's interpretation made me realize the importance of not answering the question in my paper or my discussion. Just like when teachers are presenting to students, if you answer the question you are only giving them one way to think about the answer rather than seeing their ideas.
I enjoyed the discussion and thought it was an interesting way to share ideas about the book.