Initial Thoughts

It was pretty easy for me to think of a subject for this ethnography project. Since I'm nearing graduation, I wanted to do something that would benefit me in my future career as a high school English teacher. Instead of focusing on the type of students that I may teach like all of my education classes, I want to focus on myself a bit. As education major, we are taught the standards, about classroom management, lesson plans, and most of all, we're taught about all of the different types of students we will have. We are not told what our lives as teachers will be like. We are not told how to feel and how to deal with our environment. This is something that gets slammed in our faces the first day we have students of our own.

With this project, I want to research the type of teachers that I want to be: high school English teachers at an inner-city school. I want to know what happens to teachers once the last bell rings and how they go about their everyday lives. All but one of my education classes that I've had so far scare us away from inner-city schools. We are told that students will get violent, they do drugs, they have family problems, and the majority of them are minorities and will hate us because we are upper middle-class whites. I just want to know if this is true and I want to know how these teachers deal with it every day. 

I think that if I do my project about the teachers or something related to this idea, I will have an advantage over all of the other scared education majors.