Becoming a Social Justice Teacher

Being a social justice teacher means caring for the well-being of your students and doing what it takes to direct those students who are at risk toward success.
To be a social justice teacher, one article (Rethinking Schools) suggests a number of steps:
-Work together with teachers, parents and students. Don't be a follower, but don't isolate your ideas from others either
-Get to know your students and what does and does not work for them. It is important to be grounded in how to teach them before trying to get too creative
-Try to incorporate multiple methods of teaching. There is no real right or wrong way of teaching something though some ways can be more efficient than others...figure out what those are
-Get involved in the community and encourage students to do the same

Teachers for Social Justice wish to empower their students to think critically and to make well thought-out decisions on their own. They encourage their students to be aware of what is going on in the world around them to to have an opinion on that world.
Not only that, they are also working toward providing recognition for those teachers and schools who perform well, while trying to increase the success level of lower-rated schools. To do this, they encourage debates in school and giving the students a voice in decisions about their education.

I believe that this form of teaching keeps the class interested because much of it will be intereactive. It also helps prepare them for the future and to make them more well rounded. Also, it is proven that when students are involved in their community, they are less likely to get mixed up with drugs or alcohol.