I believe that Erickson theory of psychosocial development is a great place to start talking about self-concept and identity. As he points out if the student did not gain trust over mistrust, autonomy over shame and doubt, initiative over guilt industry over inferiority or missed even one of more of the positive side of the developments they are going to have a much harder time with identity over confusion. I also believe that the early temperament plays a part in the student understanding of their self-concept and identity. If your self-concept is not good it is easy for your self-esteem to be very low. I think that your self-esteem and the way others make you feel is a big part of your self-concept. When a student is told over and over again that they are good in school by both teachers and parents, then the student will have a much better self-concept than one who is told you can’t do that, you are no good at this or that. As parents and teacher it is our responsibility to learn bout how we can help our child have good self-concepts and self-esteem. Both these concepts start from birth and continue to change as the child becomes older. I so agree with the text when it reads Positive reinforcement or praise is not enough when students are still failing in areas of importance to them pg 363. Teaching student how to improve their skills is one way we can help them with their self-esteem. I like Marcia’s theory of identity development in the fact that he hypothesized that when adolescents are searching for a viable identity, they 1 experience a process of exploration, and 2 commit to a comfortable and stable self If adolescents fail to explore or commit, they can experience identity problems. PP slide10
I so agree with this part of the power point Modern studies reflect little difference in white and African American children’s self perceptions when: They are succeeding in school and Are held in high regard by parents and peers, Adoption of a bicultural perspective is common. I think that adolescent’s is the hardest time in a person’s life. Trying to figure out, who I am, is very hard for all young people ages 10 to 18. When we talk about ethnic differences I feel that the white society culture is not included in the talk. In the text and every where we hear about African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, just to name a few, but what about students who have been here for many generations and do not even know their ethnic heritage. Do they not have problems with their identity and self-concept? I believe that I am one of the small group of people out there that believes that a child/student is a child/ student no matter what, their skin color, where there ancestors came from, their language is. As a teacher of pre-school students it is my job to teach all of them, promoting a good sense of self-concept and self-esteem in each one of these individual students.
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I like your take on the ethnic identity. I have actually struggled with this a little bit growing up. All the time in school whenever we would have a cultural diversity day or something, I would always feel a lack of identity. I am white. I am an American. That is pretty much all I know. I know my parents were born here and their parents were born here. So where is my ethnic identity? I always felt left out that some students had cool things that they brought in from India or Africa or even Germany, but I never knew what to bring? We were all Americans, and I didn’t feel that I had anything to offer that everyone already didn’t know. Cheeseburgers anyone? What else can I identify with being simply American? I really wish this would be recognized more in schools. I understand that it is great to help students with their culture, but we have to also help the students realize that we are all really just Americans. Maybe this is a little bit too much of a personal issue for me, but I am glad someone brought it up. Cultural and ethnic things really do make up our identities and build to our character and self-esteem. I just wish we all could be the same. We should all be Americans and not anything else. I think this would help our students relate more to each other and ultimately help our society relate to each other.
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ReplyDeleteI like how in the book, they talk about how schools play an important role in the development of childrens social and emotional competence. I think that it's important for teachers to realize that students who are emotionally competent have a better chance of succeding in school and in later life. I feel like sometimes teachers focus so much on academics that they forget to get to "know" their students emotional side of their identity and how it affects their motivation.
As a future teacher, I want to try to make my students as emotionally and socially competent as I can so that they will have a positive sense of self and plans for the future.