As the end of the semester inches nearer and volunteer projects wrap up, I have turned my attention to my Curriculum Action Project. Over the weekend, I finished my research on my topic: the power of urban youth culture in the classroom. While I initially thought this would be a good choice, I have since found out there was more information than I could possibly imagine on the topic. There are so many different outlets for urban youth in our schools today. Our preconceived notion is that there is often not a lot we can do to change the influence these students are wrought with. In reality, the best thing to do is embrace it. Rap can easily be the voice of a civil rights movement in beyond.
In addition to my research for this class, I also began working on a final project for my fundamentals of graduate studies course. In doing so, I was able to see the connection in which these different courses often overlap. Realizing there was a connection in all my course kind of made the major come full circle. While each course has different material, our endgame is all the same. We want to make the classroom a better place, in which students feel safe and can strive beyond anything imaginable.
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