1.) "He urged teachers to encourage students to question their experience in school: You must arouse children's curiosity and maker them think about school."
I chose this quote because I believe that this is the best way to make kids like being in school, and chances are that if they like being there they'll probably learn better. I find this a lot in the classroom where I volunteer. The students are all five or six years old and trying to teach them anything without entertaining them is like the impossible task. They don't learn anything from formal instruction, but as soon as you turn that same lesson into a game, or make it a question based lesson, where the students control the environment, you can see their little gears turning and you know they must be learning something.
2.)"Students are people whose voices are worth listening to, whose minds can carry the weight of serious intellectual work, whose thoughts and feelings can entertain transforming self and society."
I really liked this quote because I believe that our society as a whole doesn't place enough value in the minds of students. This article is all about having education derived from the minds and questions of students, and if no one is able to value the ideas of a student there is no way that this learning tactic can be used.
3.)“The teacher is the person who mediates the relationship between outside authorities, formal knowledge, and individual students in the classroom."
I LOVED this quote! as future teachers, I think that we all have this idea in our heads of what we'd like to be. I have never pictured myself to become the type of teacher who is holding the bucket of knowledge over my student's head and just dumping it in. Instead I see myself (hopefully) being able to be more like what this quote is describing.
Overall I thought that this was a good article, a little long, but still good. I was easily able to see why this article related to our class because this is what we have been doing all along! I now see why our classroom was run the way it was, because this is the future of learning.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Satirical Art Drawings by Pawel Kucynski
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4xQFDr/www.golberz.com/2011/03/satirical-art-drawings-by-pawel.html
If you copy and paste this link into your search bar you'll come across some drawings by P. Kucynski. Scroll down a bit to the 9th picture on the page. You will see a boy with his face forced into a book to "learn". I found this picture to relate perfectly to one of our last readings, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon. It just reminded me of the feeling described by some students as jamming information into your head before the test, and nothing else really mattered as long as you remembered it for the test.
If you copy and paste this link into your search bar you'll come across some drawings by P. Kucynski. Scroll down a bit to the 9th picture on the page. You will see a boy with his face forced into a book to "learn". I found this picture to relate perfectly to one of our last readings, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon. It just reminded me of the feeling described by some students as jamming information into your head before the test, and nothing else really mattered as long as you remembered it for the test.
Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome
Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome
Christopher Kliewe
1.)"I have Down syndrome, but I am not handicapped.”
I really loved this quote. Right now I am reading a book about a boy with down syndrome, and although it's a fake character, the feelings that he has are all too real. The connection works perfectly to see how real students would feel about being labeled as "special education". No one wants to be labeled and told that they can't do something.
2.)"Community acceptance requires opportunity for individual participation in the group , but the opportunity cannot exist outside of community acceptance."
I chose this quote because I believe that acceptance is the first step to giving people with differences opportunities, and in order to find that acceptance they need opportunities to be included. This quote reminded of a "which came first" type of situation.
3.)"Community requires a willingness to see people as they are-different perhaps in their minds and in their bodies, but not different in their spirits or in their willingness and ability to contribute to the mosaic of society."
I found this quote to be quite inspirational. I think that more people should think in the terms of this quote. We all need to learn hoe to see people for what they are able and willing to do, and see past disabilities.
I think that this was my favorite reading to date. I think that the issue of down syndrome and "special education" is going to end up affecting almost all of us in this class at one point or another no matter what or where we end up teaching.
Christopher Kliewe
1.)"I have Down syndrome, but I am not handicapped.”
I really loved this quote. Right now I am reading a book about a boy with down syndrome, and although it's a fake character, the feelings that he has are all too real. The connection works perfectly to see how real students would feel about being labeled as "special education". No one wants to be labeled and told that they can't do something.
2.)"Community acceptance requires opportunity for individual participation in the group , but the opportunity cannot exist outside of community acceptance."
I chose this quote because I believe that acceptance is the first step to giving people with differences opportunities, and in order to find that acceptance they need opportunities to be included. This quote reminded of a "which came first" type of situation.
3.)"Community requires a willingness to see people as they are-different perhaps in their minds and in their bodies, but not different in their spirits or in their willingness and ability to contribute to the mosaic of society."
I found this quote to be quite inspirational. I think that more people should think in the terms of this quote. We all need to learn hoe to see people for what they are able and willing to do, and see past disabilities.
I think that this was my favorite reading to date. I think that the issue of down syndrome and "special education" is going to end up affecting almost all of us in this class at one point or another no matter what or where we end up teaching.
Monday, April 11, 2011
“Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
1.) “As one child said, what you do is "store facts up in your head like cold storage - until you need it later for a test or your job."”
I chose this quote because it reminded me very much of exactly what I did all through school; and I don' think that it was just me. Going through school we seem to store up just enough of the information just long enough to pass the examination of the material and then we tend to forget about it. This quote is saying that kids know that they will need the skills that they are learning, but that they don't see the value in them now; they only think that they are important for the future.
2.) “Schoolwork helps one to achieve, to excel, to prepare for life.”
I liked this quote because it could and could not necessarily be true. I think that a lot of the skills we use to achieve an outcome will be of some greater value in "the real world" but I also think that a lot of things that we learn in school, depending on our career choices, may never be used again.
3.) "In the middle class school, work is getting the right answer."
I think that this quote perfectly explains the mentality of most students, including my high school self. Kids almost never really realize what they should be getting out of an activity and instead focus on being able to yield an answer. I don't think that this is the way students should go about learning.
Overall this piece was not hard to read and it was kind of interesting. I liked how it got me thinking about what I want the mentality of my own students to be in the future.
1.) “As one child said, what you do is "store facts up in your head like cold storage - until you need it later for a test or your job."”
I chose this quote because it reminded me very much of exactly what I did all through school; and I don' think that it was just me. Going through school we seem to store up just enough of the information just long enough to pass the examination of the material and then we tend to forget about it. This quote is saying that kids know that they will need the skills that they are learning, but that they don't see the value in them now; they only think that they are important for the future.
2.) “Schoolwork helps one to achieve, to excel, to prepare for life.”
I liked this quote because it could and could not necessarily be true. I think that a lot of the skills we use to achieve an outcome will be of some greater value in "the real world" but I also think that a lot of things that we learn in school, depending on our career choices, may never be used again.
3.) "In the middle class school, work is getting the right answer."
I think that this quote perfectly explains the mentality of most students, including my high school self. Kids almost never really realize what they should be getting out of an activity and instead focus on being able to yield an answer. I don't think that this is the way students should go about learning.
Overall this piece was not hard to read and it was kind of interesting. I liked how it got me thinking about what I want the mentality of my own students to be in the future.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Race, Class, Gender; Why Students Fail
Race, Class, Gender; Why Students Fail
Peter McLaren
1.)"Specifically blacks and similar minorities believe that in order for a minority person to succeed in school academically, he or she must learn to think and act white."
I chose this quote because I found it sad but true. I don't think that people should have to not act like themselves in order to succeed but I think that it does happen often.
2.)"The girls in the Corridor often reject marriage as a desirable option for the future. At the same time, however, some felt that marriage would be preferable to working in meaningless job.”
I found this quote kind of offensive mostly because this is what my asperations are. I don't see anything wrong with wanting to get married, as long as you're not completely submissive and can still be an independant woman.
3.)“Just as male resistance in the schools often serves to more firmly cement the boys in their low-caste status, female resistance often means rejecting the culture of the classroom only to be positioned in a culture in which girls are viewed as sex objects.”
I posted this quote because I found it really awful! This is probably the worst thing I ever read, it's basicly saying that no matter what women do men will always only see them as sex objects.
I didn't like this reading at all! I thought it said terrible truths about women. It wasn't hard to read but I still didn't like it.
Peter McLaren
1.)"Specifically blacks and similar minorities believe that in order for a minority person to succeed in school academically, he or she must learn to think and act white."
I chose this quote because I found it sad but true. I don't think that people should have to not act like themselves in order to succeed but I think that it does happen often.
2.)"The girls in the Corridor often reject marriage as a desirable option for the future. At the same time, however, some felt that marriage would be preferable to working in meaningless job.”
I found this quote kind of offensive mostly because this is what my asperations are. I don't see anything wrong with wanting to get married, as long as you're not completely submissive and can still be an independant woman.
3.)“Just as male resistance in the schools often serves to more firmly cement the boys in their low-caste status, female resistance often means rejecting the culture of the classroom only to be positioned in a culture in which girls are viewed as sex objects.”
I posted this quote because I found it really awful! This is probably the worst thing I ever read, it's basicly saying that no matter what women do men will always only see them as sex objects.
I didn't like this reading at all! I thought it said terrible truths about women. It wasn't hard to read but I still didn't like it.
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