Help me give my students choices of novels to read for their next project, centered around independent reading and people with disabilities.
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My Students
I've learned that teaching is a political job. Many policies (immigration, gentrification, healthcare, gun control, climate change, etc.) affect a student, a family, or a school in some form. It is a teacher's job not only to inform these students of these policies and mitigate their effects on out learning environment, but also teach the skills necessary for students to become critical thinkers and leaders in this ever changing society.
I believe that empathy is built in education.
It is built in our class discussions. It is built in developing social skills. It is built with reading about characters in novels who we can identify with. It is built in relationships that we have. It is built in the struggle of making mistakes and then trying again.
My students in Chicago have walked through many different paths of life to be where they are. Many continually suffer through poverty and trauma, and they see school as a safe place to grow into their identities. My aim is to provide students with access to books with characters they can identify with in order to validate their experiences. Thank you for helping my students grow.
My Project
In the next unit I will be teaching my class, students will be required to read books centered around characters with disabilities. Students will have the option to choose which books they would like to read, as this project is filled with novels of a variety of levels and characters for students to choose from.
I truly believe that empathy starts in education, and books are a gateway into learning about different worlds, pathways, and challenges that we do not get to always see in our daily lives.
I hope that students not only learn new reading and writing skills from this unit, but that they also become kinder people as well.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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