How do you experience privilege and marginalization?I experience privilege because I am a White, Middle Class person. I don't have to worry about where my next meal is coming from or how my mortgage is going to be paid next month. However, with that being said I also have worked for all this and to get myself to this point in my life. I know not everyone has the same resources or support system that I had growing up so I try to encourage my students and volunteer in areas where I can help individuals the way I was helped by my family and friends growing up. I feel as though I have been marginalized in the past due to my appearance. I have struggled with my weight much of my life and I feel that in some cases interviewing for jobs in the past that it had something to do with why I did not get some positions. Nothing specific was every said to indicate that but it is a feeling I had when the interviews were occurring and the path that the interviews went it.
Who sees themselves and their own lives reflected in our curriculum and our classroom materials?In my curriculum of Mathematics you see that most if not all of them are white males. So it was the white male population back in the very early years that developed all the theorems and rules that we now see in Mathematics.
How might you use your own privilege to make your classroom and school more equitable?My classroom is a safe place where I hope students feel comfortable enough to come to when they need a place to take a break from reality. Being a teenager is extremely hard so the more safe places we can give our students the better.
Who sees themselves and their own lives reflected in our curriculum and our classroom materials?In my curriculum of Mathematics you see that most if not all of them are white males. So it was the white male population back in the very early years that developed all the theorems and rules that we now see in Mathematics.
How might you use your own privilege to make your classroom and school more equitable?My classroom is a safe place where I hope students feel comfortable enough to come to when they need a place to take a break from reality. Being a teenager is extremely hard so the more safe places we can give our students the better.