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This weeks reading was Wide Awakeness and moral life, it discuss about how its important for teachers no matter what their specialty to be clear about how they ground their own values. It goes onto talk about that teachers need to be aware of whats goig on in thee classroom in the moment and understand whats going on in the classroom and bring outside information into the classroom and keep students more engaged with their learning. This can cause people who arent engaged and “woke” to drift away and do whats convenient for them.

I asked the question if anyone had a teacher that was woke? I got some yes and they said they enjoyed the teachers that were more engaging in the classroom and didnt go straight from the book or manual that theey had to teach from. It made me think of my goverment class from senior year of high school and made me think about how my teacher Mr. Lina would have open discussions about whats going on in the world and we could have a say on what we think is good or bad on that topic. We wouldnt get judge but sometimes he would rebuttal are answer to what he thinks. I think this is very good for students in the future it a good way of teaching because not everyone is going to have the same opinions as you. Dr. Shutkin asked me the question of what if Mr. Lina wasn’t woke as a teacher and i told him it would make the class boring it would be more of a lecture and im not a big lecture guy i think thats how you lose your classroom audience as a teacher. Dr. Shutkin also does a great job with keeping the class engaged and making his students feel like they are actually part of the class with allowing students to give there feedback and accepting everyones answers.

I found a article from Hindustin Times that talks about students and teachers not being engaged during covid duee to online zoom classes. In the article it says its not the same for students to be awaken and the teachers to give that fun classroom energy to the students. It goes on to talk about kids not being engage and teachers just lecturing them over zoom. It makes mee think of my junior year when covid just started and having to switch that classroom environment from always being engaged in the classroom to everyone with their cameras off on zoom not paying attention to the teacher. Having to be a teacher and student during covid really affe ted the students and teachers for being woke and engaged during a class. At some of the public schools in Buffalo New York they ended up passing everyone during covid because how could you fail a student during that time. But with covid happening it created bad habbits for students during return to the classroom with bad work habits and not caring as much with getting work done. On the teacher side during covid it was hard to create lesson plans for students online while keeping them engaged.

This week’s Reading made me think as a future teacher to always be engaged with the class and be yourself with the students and let them feel comfortable with the class and have the students feel the same way. Every student should have a comfortable feeling to speak up in the class and not be judge while being engaged. The best teachers are the ones who make the students want to learn and enjoy the class

Class Reflection

With uniforms I don’t think it’s a big deal that they are required at a school. I think students make a choice of if they want to wear a uniform or not. what I mean by this is, if a student knows that the school requires a uniform, and you don’t want to wear one then don’t pick that school.

School to Prison Pipeline

This week in my learning experience we talked and read as class about The school prison pipeline. We wanted the class to understand some objectives such as the school prison pipeline, the impacts of harsh punishemnt, the impact of education ineqaulity, and lastly we wanted the class to brainstorm ways to end the school to prison pipeline. We started off by asking the class if they agree or disagree with stuff that happens in schools such as should police officers only be allowed in schools for emergencies. Dr. Shutkin made a great point with police officers are trained to be violent so how can that make a students feel safe. I connected to the question we asked because some of them did happen to me and i felt like my fellow classmates really connected with the question we asked and really looked back at it and thought school did somewhat feel like a prison. What the pipeline was is best understood as a set of policies and practices in schools that make it more likely that students face criminal involvments with the juveinile courts that attain a quality education.

The zero tolerance policy is a policie to create a safe learning enviorment for students and teachers removing disrupted behaviors in the classroom and throughput the school. This leads to a strict response to violence. Students would be punished and eventually get kicked out of school. We discussed as a class if kids should get kicked out of school for extreme misbehaving. But people dont really understand the what would happen to students if they were kicked out especially from lower income schools. This can lead to students going down the wrong path.

Criminalization of education, is a problem in todays school with metal detectors and police officers and weapons that the police hold. This creates a prison like enviorment where students have negative feeling and fear inside of the school. School is supposed to feel like a second home after reading a the other reading in ED 253 and then reading this one you as a students should have fear of going to school you should want to go and be able to learn and meet friends. All students should get there full education rights.

I ask myself will the school to prison pipeline ever end or will it always be like this in schools. We need to figure out away how to end this system, maybe a new punishment instead of kicking students out of school. Students should feel locked up that’s the last thing we want students to feel like. At the end of the day i gained knowledge and gave the knowledge I learned to my classmates on the school pipeline and how this is affecting schooling.

Queer Theory

This week me and my group had the opportunity of reading But i’m not Gay: what straight teachers need to know about queer theory. The article talks about what queer theory is and how it was used inside of the classroom. Queer theory is a way of thinking that dismatles traditional assumptions about gender and sexual identities. Some people misunderstand this theory as a synonym for gay and lesbian studies. The article talks about students being bullied for their genders such as a boy having femine style or a girl with as they say town boy. The reading all talks about gender stereotypes, for example boys should wear blue and girls should wear pink.

I went into a article from edutopia.org and it basically talks about a student that comes out as gay and gets are hard time for it during school. I asked the question to the class if anyone experienced or witnessed this in their school environments. I got a lot of answers that they haven’t done going to such a big school they never really noticed. This article made me connect back to my senior year of highschool where a kid at my school came out as being gay and hes struggled with having people accepting this. My highschool was an all boys school so as boys some boys feel uncomfortable about this situation and don’t really know the best things to say to someone going through a change like that. The kid struggled with going to school everyday feeling depressed and not accepting him. He ended up doing classes online for the rest of the year where he missed out on his last year of highschool. After rethinking all this over it made me think schools should have clubs or classes to inform other students about accepting others for their gender beliefs. I think with clubs or classes it would have helped the girl in the article and the boy at my school to feel more welcomed and have people with the same backgrounds or understanding of what they feel like with what’s going on through their day.

After reading the article and the reading it gives me a better understanding of teaching in the classroom with accepting all with their gender beliefs. I think as a teacher you need to bring this information into the classroom and inform students on how it’s ok to be able to go through changes and accept others for going through something like that. A statistic from the article that i took out of this to prove my point said “nearly 2500 teachers and students across the country and found that teachers were less comfortable intervening bullying due to sexual orientation and gender identity than with bullying based on race, ability and region”(edutopia.org). This shows teachers don’t really want to have to talk to or have a say with students getting bullied with sexual orientation.

In conclusion, kids who are getting bullied for their gender beliefs need to stop. Schools need to inform students on gender beliefs such as queer theory. I would like to thank Dr. Shutkin for informing us on this article queer theory and giving us a better understand of what should be done in schools with queer theory

Service Essay

I’ve been having a great opportunity to be able to do service hours at the Boys Hope Girls Hope. The Boys Hope Girls Hope gives opportunity to students in need of a place to stay or just time to get away from where they live if homes are not safe. This program gives opportunity to families in need by giving them money for their children to come to the program and get after school help. Boys Hope Girls Hope doesn’t just help the families, it also helps the students with college skills, extracurricular opportunities, life skills, emotional and spiritual support, and mentor relationships. I am so glad that I am a part of giving these opportunities to students to make a change in their lives.

Being a part of Boys Hope Girls Hope I have been working with the tenth grade students on their grant on how to inform people on mental health. This is a group project for the students that they will present to the other students at Boys Hope Girls Hope. The kids have been working on this project since January and I can see that they have been getting more engaged together than the first time I was there in early march. I noticed that some of the students did complain to me about having to come to the program. I always asked myself, do the kids not enjoy the program because of having to do extracurricular work that doesn’t even have to do with their school work? But as I talked to more students I found out that a lot of them complained about how far the kids really live from the program. They explained to me that every Tuesday they go to school at seven then get out of school at two and have to wait for the bus to pick them up at three. The group that I was working with said they live about 45 minutes away from the program and don’t get home until nine at night. This really made me think about what else can Boys Hope Girls Hope do to make the program more exciting for Kids to want to get involved more with the program.

With this experience at Boys Hope Girls Hope it gave me a better understanding of teaching a purpose to be in the classroom with students. I noticed the differences from a student having fun with activities to being bored. It showed me that bringing humor and fun activities into the classroom makes it more fun for students to get a better understanding of learning. When i saw the kids doing their projects in their groups they were so off task and just didn’t show any effort to even wanting to touch the project. Bringing more hands- on learning activities will definitely spark up the classroom more especially that I’m going into early childhood education.

I sat down with a student at the program and she told me about why she came to Boys Hope Girls Hope. She goes on to talk about how her dad is an alcoholic and her mom and dad always fight. She says the program helps her get away from all the chaos at home. She also said she feels grateful that the Boys Hope Girls Hope pays for her private schooling. I compare my experience to Lori Pompa article Reflections on immersion, context, power, and transformation. She has experiences with students who struggle in situations just like Boys Hope Girls Hope.

I would like to thank Boys Hope Girls Hope for giving me the opportunity to help out and get a better understanding with what I can do to bring to a classroom also a student’s life. It gives me a better understanding of how important it is to have a connection with your students. I’m very excited to finish out my weeks with the program and only grow on what students need in a classroom.

Thats Just Good Teaching

This past week I was involved with giving a learning Experience of the reading That’s Just Good Teaching. me and my group wanted to give some objective that the class could take away from our learning experience. The first objective we wanted the class to understand was understanding culturally relevant pedagogy, the other main objective was discerning the three criteria for culturally relevant pedagogy. Lastly, to know the importance of culturally relevant pedagogy. We started our lesson out by having my classmates think of their favorite memory of a teacher. As we had them think of their favorite teacher, we wanted to think of some questions such as what the situation was, why did I like this interaction/reaction, do I want to be like this when I’m a teacher? As they all thought about this question about their favorite teachers, we wanted to ask them the same sort of question but the opposite. We had them think of their least favorite teacher. My classmates’ feedback all seemed sort of the same with why they enjoyed the teacher compared to why they didn’t enjoy the teacher.

Academic success, students need to develop academic traits/skill inorder to succeed and have great academic success. Ann Lewis said there are five important skills to having academic success. Those skills are literacy, numeracy, technological, social, and political skills. You see all the academic skills Ann Lewis talks about and you see people using each one of these skills everyday to gain academic success, I find this so fascinating. Ann lewis tells us a story, she notices that African American boys possessed great social power in the classroom. Lewis one day decided that she would ask the boys to demonstrate academic power by drawing on issues they found meaningful to them

Culturally Relevant is a pedagogy of opposition that is not unlike critical pedagogy but specifically committed to collective, not merely individual but empowerments. Empowerments students intellectually while socially, emotionally and politically just like what they need for academic success. By using these cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills and attitudes. There are three criterias or propositions of culturally relevant. Students must succeed and experience academic success inside the classroom,students must develop while maintaining cultural competence, and lastly students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order. A culturally relevant teacher wants each student to be able to relate course content to their cultural context.

Cultural competence is to gain knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews. Every student should be able to have cultural competence in the classroom, it’s a “vehicle for learning” as Ann Lewis would call it. For example learning about parents and ethnic backgrounds and being able to adapt around different languages and cultures. This is allowing students to critique norms and encourage questions and discussions about stuff they might not be as familiar with.

We finished up our learning experience with a game on what makes a good teacher. We went around the class and asked our classmates this question and got some very good responses. A Lot of students enjoyed a teacher who was caring and showed that their students mattered.

Through this learning experience I’ve now had another perspective on teaching that I took away from Ann Lewis. With reaching the three main objectives we wanted to tell the class about. I’ve learned that as a teacher it is important to bring all different cultural backgrounds into a classroom and inform them on where they come from. I would like to thank my group for giving a great presentation and Dr. Shutkin for the opportunity to give this experience to the class.

current connection/ Test Prep

In this weeks current connection we read about test prep. It made me ask several questions about Should test prep techniques that produce fraudulent gains be considered cheating? Also Why do you think teachers feel pressured to teach test tricks and bad test prep? We see test prep being taught in every school for ways to do better on test, but does it really help students do better on test. The meaning of test are for what the student is struggling on and what do they need to prove on. It also helps the teacher with what do they need to help the students work on what did they struggle the most on.

Some test taking strategies are remembering symbols, creating a song or sentence to rember things even a word. You can also do easier problems first then do the harder ones later, this helps by taking your time and managing it. Tips and tricks can surely help you with test but my question is what are test good for besides telling teachers what you struggle with, why cant you just tell the teacher your struggling with a topic instead of taking a test to tell them?

I read a article from Arizon daily sun and the article talks about how Arizona changes up there standarizing testing every 5 years to different topics. This change takes teachers two to three years to grasp the whole material to actually understand what there teaching the students. This isnt fair to the teachers or students at all because having to be taught a different material every five years is hard. I asked a question to the class if they were required to take standardized test, and i noticed that all the kids that lived in ohio said yes that it was required for them to take them while the new york kids said they didnt take them after middle school ended. As a kid my mother made me take the neww york state exam every year until highschool as a way to learn test prep strategies she said it would be good for me to take test now so im use to it by college. I agree with my mom but i think its up to a certain extent that kids should be taking these test. I think once you get to highschool you should be focusing more on outside problems and connecting them to the topic your learning in class. Instead kids are basically getting taught what the state wants you to learn, students should have a say in there education.

At the end of the day i gained knowledge and a different aspect on what I think about standardized testing and how it should be used. We see a problem with standardized testing in America and how can we fix it?

Learning Experience 2/8/22

This past week I was involved with giving a learning experience to my class about John Dewey 1897, My pedagogic creed. He discusses three things about schooling and how students should be teached. John Dewey’s way of teaching was hands-on learning so me and my group wanted to bring that into the classroom. We decided to have the class split up into groups where they would have to make a lesson plan for third and second graders on how a plant grows. We got a lot of similar answers where people thought of the idea of just letting the students grow the plant and watch it over time and see how a plant really grows just like how John Dewey wanted learning to be like. We decided to do another activity where we would have the groups go around and write on the whiteboards about the three main topics in the articles. The three topics were what is education, what the school is, and the subject matter of education. `we discussed these topics with the class and what surprised me the most was that for the answers to what are schools for everyone said a second home. This was exactly what John Dewey wanted people to look at a school as a home where you can learn but feel comfortable.

What is education, John Dewey’s way of looking at education was a hands-on learning experience. John Dewey wanted kids to be able to live the learning not to be sitting in a classroom and having the teacher give a lecture. I think this way of learning is way better than the way we are being taught in most classrooms. I talked to Dr. Shutkin on zoom about if testing is good for a school and will they ever go away. I told him that I think tests will always be in a schooling system and that it’s a way for teachers to tell where a student’s learning ability is at the time. I wasn’t always a big fan of tests. I would’ve rather written an essay. I think John Dewey’s ways of education are perfect for a student to learn by giving them the opportunities to be able to learn life lessonings skills.

What the school is, John Dewy wanted schools to be looked at as a second home. “ I believe that the moral education centers upon this conception of the school as a mode of social life, that the best and deepest moral training is precisely that which one gets through having to enter into proper relations with others in a unity of work and thought”(John Dewey). John Dewey looked at schooling as social life with everyone communicating to another and making them feel comfortable as if it was a home. As I said earlier the students in my classroom looked at. Schools want to extend and deepen the value of each child and show them what they are capable of and how they are unique.

The subject matter of education, John Dewey discusses how students should be the one creating the curriculum. I totally agree with this, I think we should be able to be taught on stuff that’s happening in our daily lives and that’s exactly what John Dewey wanted us to be able to do. By this we give the children freedom in the classroom and make them feel more comfortable and open to learning. I’ve noticed in some of my classes we get off topic and related topics that are happening in today’s world. I think this is a great learning experience because we get to see and discuss the problems that are happening in today’s life right now.

John Dewey wanted to create a new way of learning and informed us on what schools should truly be used for. After reading the article it made me change my views of what a classroom learning environment should be like. I would like to thank my group for giving a great effort to teaching the class.

Comic Strip 3

For my third comic strip I based it on a regular day in my observation classroom. I am at Laurel Elementary. The teacher I was observing just finished the lesson. I noticed how she had many different techniques to keep the students engaged and noticed how she stopped when they started to not pay attention. So, I asked her what she recommends doing in that situation. The teacher responded with, I like to use visual learning and give the students an opportunity to speak in class. In the book it mentions how a teacher should find different ways to keep the students engaged. Visual learning was a big section of the lesson. I always enjoyed visual learning as a student. So I think that visual learning is something that I would like to bring into my classroom. When I was making my comic i made the background a classroom to show the scenario of me being in the classroom and asking for tips with the teacher.

Author: adugan25

Segregation in School Timeline

Wide Awakens and moral life