66-Chelsey Farias: Building Cultural Opportunities While Being a New FCS Teacher

<p>•    I just graduated from Central Washington University. I am a new teacher, this will be my first year I did my student teaching, which was an awesome thing. I mean, it was mostly primarily online because of COVID and everything, so it was a little challenging, but fun. Everyone says that it was their hardest year of teaching, so I started off that way, so it can only get easier from here. Yeah, I just got hired and I cannot wait to go back and serve the community where I was served. I know the school is primarily Latino students, so I'm just super excited to go back and serve the students that you know, that come from the same upbringing for me. (2:11)</p><p>•   75% of the population are Latino students. So that's another connection. I came from the east side, that's another connection, so it's just kind of counting the connections that you make with the students and being more relatable and especially with family consumer science. I'd be teaching Food and Nutrition, how can we incorporate our culture to what we're cooking in a custom, just different ways like that. I think it means a lot just because there's more ways that I understand the students struggle and I'm able to empathize with them. (5:00)</p><p>•   That was really exciting, and it was also kind of a testament of going how deep and how far this project actually went because it was implemented in the classroom. It was executed at home where students actually talked to their family or friends about this. And then all of a sudden coming back to the classroom, not being afraid to kinda push the envelope a little bit when it comes to sending a project like that home. (9:43)</p><p>•    I learned, that there are so many ways to cater to the students that need a little bit more help in writing things down physically, and literally say, Start typing out the steps of what they need to do and go into detail and really reiterating what you said, so that was something that was a good thing that I learned that I didn't realize that I wasn't really catering to