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Me: A Cultural Autobiography

Me: A Cultural Autobiography. By Chris McGrath 16 JAN 2013. Agenda. About Me Why I Want to be a Teacher Cultural Influences Multicultural Teaching. About Me. 24-year-old Caucasian male with blond hair and green eyes

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Me: A Cultural Autobiography

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  1. Me: A Cultural Autobiography By Chris McGrath 16 JAN 2013

  2. Agenda • About Me • Why I Want to be a Teacher • Cultural Influences • Multicultural Teaching

  3. About Me • 24-year-old Caucasian male with blond hair and green eyes • BA: University of Wisconsin, History and Political Science (Class of ’08) • Ex-Army Officer, spent a year in Afghanistan • Formerly one of the best pizza delivery boys in Madison • Once met Drew Brees

  4. Why I want to be a teacher • I’ve always had a passion for History, which is probably what attracted me to the Army in the first place • However, the traveling, roguish life of an Army officer was not for me. I want to be fixed in one location for the next thirty years of my life. • Teaching offers me that opportunity. But, more important, teaching will allow me to help mold young minds, and get students as excited about history as I am. • George Santayana said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I’ve seen this firsthand, and I know it’s true. • I would like to change that.

  5. Cultural influences • I have lived a comfortable middle class existence for most of my life. My interactions with different cultures have occurred because I sought them out. • I have coached several basketball teams at the West YMCA, and dealt with all sorts of cultures, including kids whose parents did not care about them and kids whose parents were college professors and completely overinvolved in their child’s life. • Working as a pizza delivery boy also brought me into contact with people of many different cultural backgrounds. It was the first time in my life I had ever dealt with people who were not college-educated or college-bound.

  6. Cultural Influences (2) • The most significant cultural experiences I have had, though, have come from my time in the Army. • In the Army, race, creed, color, national origin, gender, and sexuality are entirely irrelevant (theoretically, at least). What matters is competency. • I served with men and women in what was literally a life-and-death situation, and the significance of that is that each of them brought something different to the table. Individually, we weren’t much, but together, we functioned as a team. • That, to me, is multiculturalism.

  7. Multicultural teaching • Everyone has a different life story. Students do not all fit neatly into a cookie-cutter plan. Some need to be taught differently then others, and sometimes this difference is on account of their cultural background. • If 24 students in a class of 25 are learning, then one student is being failed. As a teacher, I will strive to help everyone in my classes succeed, regardless of race, creed, color, gender, national origin, handicapped status, sexuality, or any other cultural background. • I Promise.

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