Delpit- Question #1

As a second year student, I have still not decided on a major. I am exploring my options and have been enrolled in two TCE courses to see if education is the right choice for me. Before taking these courses, I was so naïve, just thinking about the chance to interact with and teach fun little kids. After reading Delpit’s article and others like it in my TCE classes, I have come to realize that there is so much more than just that. If I continue down the path toward education, my future students will not all come from the same economic or cultural backgrounds. I will have to learn how to address different issues, including those of language and power as discussed in Delpit’s article. I will have to decide how and what to teach children of different backgrounds. Learning from other people’s experiences, especially Delpit’s and the ones she includes in her article, will be helpful in my preparation for a position as an educator.