Taylor Dill's Blog

       One of the stories that I think is told to everyone in their schooling history is Christopher Columbus. You can ask pretty much everyone and they will say Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. This information is told all throughout school levels going into a deeper dive the older that a student gets in the school system. This story though also has parts that remain in the margins in the fact that in school we do not learn all the facts that happened with Columbus and what all he did in order for him to "discover the America's" This is one of the stories that came to mind because now that I am in college I am finding out things that happened that I should of learned when I was in middle school or even high school, but the education system that hold things back that they really do not want students to be learning. They are withholding the whole truth in order to make certain things look better then what they really are.       ...

       I think as teachers, it is important to speak on issues, such as hard topics that are happening in the world around us. With teaching younger students in the elementary level I think it is important for them to have good comprehension of these matters just maybe not as in depth as you would with the high school level. To start off, have a question on the board that is going to have the students really think hard and give them examples of certain things. I think this will get their brains thinking of what the topic is so that they are not just blurting out things before they speak. Show a video to your students that will give them more information about the topic that will help them understand the actual facts that are happening versus what they might just be hearing from their peers or even from their parents. I think it is most important that when teaching students and talking to students about issues that matter is that we give them the true facts and not ou...