During the video, Victor
Rios defends the idea that students define themselves by what they contribute,
not by what they lack. He has studied those young people that have been pushed out
of school and at the same time, he names his personal experience.
His main objective is to change the
way we label young people from ‘’at-risk’’ to ‘’at-promise’’. Thanks to a teacher
that he had, he has once again had hope and confidence in education. In fact,
based on that teacher that he admires, he proposes three strategies that each
teacher should follow to help their students and that none of them be excluded
or on the way. The first one, teachers must get rid of the deficit perspective
in education. Besides, they need to value the stories that young people bring
to the school-house. It is essential that we help them to be proud of whom they
are, so we should be there for listened to them. The last one, we have to
provide them adequate resources.
To sum up, mentoring, job training and
counseling are three techniques that could be useful for teachers and could
make them learn from their mistakes instead of dragging them out of their
classes.
Miriam Orón.
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