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Who Do I Think I Am

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我是亚洲人，我属于汉族，出生于中华人民共和国首都北京。我来自一个非常传统的家庭，我的父母深受中国传统儒家文化的影响，特别是中国儒家思想，学生应该学习努力，取得好成绩。他们希望将来我能通过努力工作得到一份好的工作和收入。我的父母对我的学习要求很严格，他们的父母总是鼓励我，要求我努力学习。因此，在我来到美国之前，我已经获得了相对较好的学业成绩，我完成了中国大学本科教育课程，我想成为未来的老师。获得学士学位后，我有机会继续在美国学习。美国的学习阶段让我有了新的学习和教育观。过去，我认为学生最重要的是要通过老师的帮助获得好成绩，以便今后做好工作和体面的社会地位。在美国学习一段时间之后，我的信仰和价值体系不自觉地改变了。我知道，除了帮助学生取得成绩外，教师还应该帮助孩子提高自己的团队协作能力;他们应该帮助孩子建立一个学习环境，让孩子的学习与社会实践相联系;也要培养孩子的良好的品格和社会责任感，今后更适应社会规范;教师必须善于发现孩子有兴趣引导孩子独立学习，而不仅仅是让孩子被动学习。值得注意的是，老师和家长不应该太有用，指导孩子接受教育，虽然未来要做好工作对孩子来说非常重要，但要了解孩子的个性，兴趣和特点，引导他们学习更重要否则会导致学生行为不一致，情绪疲劳，对儿童的成长会更加负面。
I am a person of Asian origin, I belong to the Han and was born in the capital of People's Republic of China: Beijing. I am from a very traditional family, my parents are deeply influenced by Chinese traditional Confucian culture, in particular the thought of Chinese Confucian that students should study hard and get good grades. They hope that in the future, I am able to get a good job and income by hard work. My parents are very strict with my study, their parents have always encouraged and asked me to study very hard. Therefore I have obtained a relatively good academic performance before I came to U.S. I took education as my major and finished undergraduate education in China, I want to be a teachers in future. After obtaining a bachelor's degree , I got the opportunity to continue my study in U.S.. The learning phase in U.S. allows me to have a new view for learning and education. In the past, I believed that the most important thing for a student is to get good grades with teachers’ help, so as to get a good job and decent social status in the future. After studying in U.S. for a period of time, my beliefs and value systems have been changed unconsciously. I come to know that in addition to helping students to get good grades, teachers should also help children to improve their teamwork skills; they should help children to build a learning context, allowing children’s learning to be linked with social practice; they should also cultivate children’s sound character and social responsibility, so that they are more adapted to social norms in future; teacher must be able to be good at discovering what children are interested in to guide children to study independently, rather than just let children learn passively. It is worth noting that teachers and parents should not be too utilitarian in guiding children in education, although to get a good job in future is very important for children, but to understand children’s personality, interests and according to the characteristics to guide them in learning is more important. Otherwise, it will result in inconsistent behavior, emotional weariness of children in learning, which will be more negative for children’s growth.

Final Reflection
In China, as there is relatively simple culture, schools, families and communities have a more consistent view of education, they generally believe that schools should dominate educational process. In U.S., due to the presence of cultural diversity, families and communities with different cultural backgrounds have very different view on education, a school must obtain the support of families and communities to enable students to succeed in the school (Barbour, Barbour and Scully, 2010). Therefore, as teachers, they should have good communication skills, through keeping active interaction with parents and communities to