Play-Doh Sculpture Activity

For class, we discussed the three different teaching styles. They include cooperative discipline, assesterive discipline, and beyond discipline. We were told to evaluate our on teaching styles and make a play-doh model representing what we want our classroom to look like and represent. We were asked to consider what impact we would want to leave on students with our teaching styles as well. Unfortunately, I lost the image of my sculpture and my peers reactions to it but I do remember what they had written about it.

For my clay model, I created an tangerine colored taco. In the taco, it had many different ingredients and all were different from each other. I chose this unique concept because I wanted for it to be a challenge for my peers to understand what I was trying to display. Many of my peers blatantly described what they saw which as a taco but many guessed things that had to do with diversity in the classroom. A lot of my peers did not understand what I was trying to convey, and I understand hy since I created a taco. Many people would not ssee the connection that a taco has with teaching. Essentially, the taco was just an alternative to the idea is a tossed salad that most people think of when they try and dipict the idea of different types of people coming together. This idea stems from the former idea that America is a melting pot; this is actually incorrect since every remains who they are even though they are all together. The taco represents the concept of the salad since all the ingredients don't blend in with other ingredients but maintain their identity to create something awesome... like a taco!

In my classroom, I want to celebrate the differences that all my students contribute to the classroom community. I want them to understand that they are valued as individuals and also contribute to the team. This concept applies to my teaching practice now in the classroom because I strive to understand what makes every student in my classroom an individual and to view them as the potential they can become in the future.