GLSEN
(Connections)
Before this assignment, I never knew this site existed like
this online. Yes I was surprised about it but I feel it is completely necessary
for new or becoming educators such as myself to be aware of these issues and to
always have a backup plan just in case a problem dealing with gay, lesbian, or
straight issues comes up in our own classrooms.
I took a look at “The Educators Guide to LGBT Pride” part of
this website. Here it talks about celebrating LHBT pride month one day in June
before the end of the school year. This is so no matter what you are you are
able to show it off and be proud of it. I feel that this is a great idea
because there seems to be a holiday for a great deal of things in this country.
I like the fact that this will give everyone a chance to celebrate themselves
and others all together.
While I do agree with this method, I do think it would be a
little challenging in an elementary classroom where I plan on starting my
education process. At that age you’re still in the “confused” stage of what you
are and where you think you belong. So I think if this was to be done, it
should be at least with the other middle school kids if not start on the high
school level.
While reading this, I thought about “Aria” by Rodriguez. In
that article he talks about losing himself and his culture when going to school
because he felt that he wasn’t able to be himself. Even though he wasn’t
dealing with being gay, lesbian, or straight, he was still dealing with
something that made him feel as though he was an outsider to everyone else in
the classroom. This could always be related to “Teaching Multilingual Children”
by Collier. She talks about the features teachers “should” use when dealing
with students who don’t speak English as a first language at home. Here she
makes it seems that those who don’t know English are the outsiders compared to
everyone else in the room, and that shouldn’t be the case. Yes they are
different, but the one thing that all of the kids in the desks have in common
is that they are all my students. And because of that, no matter what language
they speak, color they are, or sex they want to be with, they are still my
students and should be treated as such.
Along with this site, I also found another site that coincides with this. It has another article that talks about teachers accepting homosexual students, and i felt it was very informational.
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