The Substitute

For my next outside event I decided to watch the movie the Substitute. I remembered watching this film with my dad a while back and thought it related to education quite well. The movie is about a substitute teacher who comes in and teaches in a low income area. This area is quite rough and some other issues soon arise involving gangs and so on. Looking at the movie at an educational standpoint I think it fits quite well. It has different backgrounds and heritage which is an important topic we discussed throughout the semester. In Education you will most likely be forced to become more culturally diverse and as a teacher we need to be able to incorporate everyone.

Freedom Writers

This movie is about a teacher who teaches in a low income community. Throughout the movie the teacher and the students seem to learn a lot from each other. The teacher has the students write in journals about anything they want her to know about them. The teacher was shocked to see how many students wrote about their lives and found a lot more about the individuals as a whole. I found this movie to be very interesting. This seemed like a different approach to get to know your students more. Overall, I think this was a very clever and neat technique to add to teaching.

Wrestling Nationals

The past two years I have been involved in wrestling here at Luther College. This year we ended fourth in the country along with two individual national champions. I did not wrestle at nationals this year but I did go and attend the event. I found this event to be somewhat of a learning experience. While I was there I was able to see how other students from other schools were behaving. Also, I was putting myself in a new situation while being surrounded by different backgrounds and so on. I found this experience to be very fun and enjoyable.

Guster

A while back I went to the Guster concert here at Luther College. I don't listen to Guster very much and at this time I never really heard of them. I decided to go with a few of my friends. While I was there, I noticed the different kinds of students that were there. I was putting myself in a different situation and learning what some of their interests might be. This relates to education because in education you have to deal with different surroundings and different backgrounds of students on a day to day basis.