Mexican Teachers Research Paper

What do Mexicana Teachers that Suffer from Depression Believe They Need to be Effective Teachers?
Gabriela Gutierrez-Perez
Liberal Studies Department
College of Education
California State University Monterey Bay

Abstract
The paper reviews what Mexicana teachers that suffer from depression need to be effective teachers. The purpose of this was to understand and see what Mexicana teachers are doing in our communities to be effective in their classrooms. The researcher interviewed teachers in the community in a platica (community dialogue) style interview with questions. This was held in three platicas, one week apart. This helped the researcher listen, digest, and create new questions for the next interview. Findings

As a future educator, she wants to be able to learn everything she can to be equipped with how to help her future students. This will help her, as well as her students to succeed in the classroom. As a Liberal Studies major with an emphasis in History the author has learned how to teach both in a curriculum that integrates both subjects and how creating a lesson plan can help students understand what multiculturalism is. One thing that she feels was not taught during her time at CSUMB, is how to take on difficult situations in the classroom with different

You are not motivated to do anything. Getting out of bed seems like a very difficult task to complete. It is like you have fallen into a deep, dark hole and cannot get out. But you know you have household chores to complete. Depression does not discriminate and does not give anyone a warning of when it will occur. In the Merriam Webster Dictionary, it states that depression can be a feeling of sadness, anger, anxiety, psychotic disorder that can be followed by sadness, inactivity, difficulty thinking and concentrating, decrease or increase on appetite, sleeping all day or not sleeping, hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal