Walking Alongside Our Students: Renewing Our Teaching Commitments
Abstract
This essay is an exercise in renewing one’s teaching values and commitments using texts that promote anti-racism, teacher activism, and listening and learning to and from our students. Using the scholarship of William Ayers (2020), Bettina Love (2019), Crystal T. Laura (2014), Margaret Wheatley (2002), and others, the author narrates the process of re-affirming the values and commitments that govern her “teaching life” (Ayers, 2020). Through the sharing of a recent conversation with a novice teacher, the author recounts her own lessons learned through experience and literature. In turn, she encourages teacher and teacher educators to do the same.
Recommended Citation
Googins, Jody
(2020)
"Walking Alongside Our Students: Renewing Our Teaching Commitments,"
Ohio Journal of Teacher Education: Vol. 34:
No.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/ojte/vol34/iss2/6
