Day # 6
When I went to Asa Messer Annex Elementary this morning, I found out that it was picture day. People were setting up in my room that I work in. I could not find anyone at this point to tell me what to do about it. My kindergartners went to take their pictures as soon as I had to take them. I had less than 10 minutes with them. This did not help them one bit because the other tutors haven't been showing up, and when they do, are not doing Reading Buddies appropriately. I went to my first grade room, only had one student out of three. I was able to work with him for about 5 minutes before he had to leave for pictures. I am feeling extremely overwhelmed because I feel the kids will be pushed behind because of all of this and that's not what I want. :-/
I really hope everyone else is having a good time in their placements.
I am also, its just getting hardwhen these kids need so much help and they can't get it.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Brown vs. Board of Education and Wise
ARGUMENT
Historical vs. Present Issues
The website we had to look at showed only a few ways in which blacks had to fight for their rights. It said how the Civil War was meant to pave way for rights for everyone, but in the early 1900s, many laws were put in place and old customs returned that caused segregation. There was a fight for civil rights for blacks, which shows that there was effort.
In the Wise videos, it was said that there is evidence of racism of people of color is still relevant. It also says that racism is sometimes defeated, which is a step up from what it has been, but it is not always defeated. There was also an interesting idea, that there are certain exceptions for certain people. That some people of color are accepted, but this is not really a help because there are still many other people. There aren't any certain white acceptable people, just based on their race. So why is it that way for the colored? There is no racial equity, and until that day, there will always be racism.
Another interesting idea from Wise was that all the movements for acceptance of blacks has taken time. We are moving forward, it is a good thing. An ironic thing was that this piece mentioned Brown vs. Board of Education and said that it was a big step forward.
What connects these two pieces is that they both say that it took time to make change. The website had a timeline so you could easily see the years that went by to change everything. The video explicitly says that it has taken time.
In class, I think there should be a discussion on what people can do to help the progression of change. If people work together, then it would probably be an easier thing to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R279NLNBfLI&feature=related. This video is a history of Brown vs. Board of Education and different facts about Blacks in American history.
Historical vs. Present Issues
The website we had to look at showed only a few ways in which blacks had to fight for their rights. It said how the Civil War was meant to pave way for rights for everyone, but in the early 1900s, many laws were put in place and old customs returned that caused segregation. There was a fight for civil rights for blacks, which shows that there was effort.
In the Wise videos, it was said that there is evidence of racism of people of color is still relevant. It also says that racism is sometimes defeated, which is a step up from what it has been, but it is not always defeated. There was also an interesting idea, that there are certain exceptions for certain people. That some people of color are accepted, but this is not really a help because there are still many other people. There aren't any certain white acceptable people, just based on their race. So why is it that way for the colored? There is no racial equity, and until that day, there will always be racism.
Another interesting idea from Wise was that all the movements for acceptance of blacks has taken time. We are moving forward, it is a good thing. An ironic thing was that this piece mentioned Brown vs. Board of Education and said that it was a big step forward.
What connects these two pieces is that they both say that it took time to make change. The website had a timeline so you could easily see the years that went by to change everything. The video explicitly says that it has taken time.
In class, I think there should be a discussion on what people can do to help the progression of change. If people work together, then it would probably be an easier thing to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R279NLNBfLI&feature=related. This video is a history of Brown vs. Board of Education and different facts about Blacks in American history.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Media Literacy Response
Media Literacy
I was very interested in our Media Literacy class, particularly on the media's role with beauty. I looked for more videos. Most you have probably seen or we did in class, but they are here to see...
I really enjoyed this video. It gives facts as it shows you pictures and other visual representations.
This is a CBS video that interviews Ellen.
This is froma student doig this for a health class. It was actually quite interesting with A LOT of facts.
This is how you can easily photoshop a larger woman into a smaller person. This is why parents need to talk to their kids to tell them that not all people in magazines are actually that thin.
I was very interested in our Media Literacy class, particularly on the media's role with beauty. I looked for more videos. Most you have probably seen or we did in class, but they are here to see...
I really enjoyed this video. It gives facts as it shows you pictures and other visual representations.
This is a CBS video that interviews Ellen.
This is froma student doig this for a health class. It was actually quite interesting with A LOT of facts.
This is how you can easily photoshop a larger woman into a smaller person. This is why parents need to talk to their kids to tell them that not all people in magazines are actually that thin.
Gender and Education in 2010
Hyperlinks
Key issues with equity for boys and girls in school
Wikipedia is not always a great site, but it did give some key ideas for what the ideas are today concerning gender in the classroom. It says that women are thought that they should sit at home and be house wives. It says they should choose careers that will allow them to do so. I think that this is incredibly ambiguous in today's society, but I know that it's still true. These sort of thoughts are still present today, when I thought that they were gone many years ago. I understand that there are traditionalist thoughts still, but I feel that this is extreme because it is the general thought of the public supposedly. Considering this FNED class is about 99% female, I think everyone in this class can say we do not fully agree with this idea of stay at home mothers.
This report says that in a coeducational school, boys attract attention more from teachers than girls. This is usually with inexperienced teachers, and that experienced teachers work to find a way to make it work with all the students. I think we need to keep this in mind as we all go into teaching because we are inexperienced, even though we will be student teaching. It isn't enough to notice subtle differences in the classroom of how you treat different genders.
This site is in response to a New York Times piece. It was very helpful.
http://www.education2.bham.ac.uk/documents/staff/skelton_c/Gender_and_ITE.pdf
This other website says that boys are far behind girls in grades, so that teachers now focus more on males. Boys are more likely to drop out of school than girls also. This site also says that there is a lack of male teachers also and that there are people trying to recruit more males to teach.
I think from the information I found, that women are not expected to have a real career and they should be a stay at home mother. That men are not as interested as being teachers as women. And also that boys are focused more on by inexperienced teachers than females.
In class, I think there should be a discussion on peoples thoughts of a stay at home mother. Obviously we are all in college now so it doesn't seem likely that the class would personally agree, but I know some people would still have positive thoughts on this idea.
Key issues with equity for boys and girls in school
Wikipedia is not always a great site, but it did give some key ideas for what the ideas are today concerning gender in the classroom. It says that women are thought that they should sit at home and be house wives. It says they should choose careers that will allow them to do so. I think that this is incredibly ambiguous in today's society, but I know that it's still true. These sort of thoughts are still present today, when I thought that they were gone many years ago. I understand that there are traditionalist thoughts still, but I feel that this is extreme because it is the general thought of the public supposedly. Considering this FNED class is about 99% female, I think everyone in this class can say we do not fully agree with this idea of stay at home mothers.
This report says that in a coeducational school, boys attract attention more from teachers than girls. This is usually with inexperienced teachers, and that experienced teachers work to find a way to make it work with all the students. I think we need to keep this in mind as we all go into teaching because we are inexperienced, even though we will be student teaching. It isn't enough to notice subtle differences in the classroom of how you treat different genders.
This site is in response to a New York Times piece. It was very helpful.
http://www.education2.bham.ac.uk/documents/staff/skelton_c/Gender_and_ITE.pdf
This other website says that boys are far behind girls in grades, so that teachers now focus more on males. Boys are more likely to drop out of school than girls also. This site also says that there is a lack of male teachers also and that there are people trying to recruit more males to teach.
I think from the information I found, that women are not expected to have a real career and they should be a stay at home mother. That men are not as interested as being teachers as women. And also that boys are focused more on by inexperienced teachers than females.
In class, I think there should be a discussion on peoples thoughts of a stay at home mother. Obviously we are all in college now so it doesn't seem likely that the class would personally agree, but I know some people would still have positive thoughts on this idea.
Collier Moments at Asa Messer Annex
So I was at my elementary school and the teacher had 4 computers set up for the students to use. The homepages were all in Spanish. Considering every child is an esl student, this made me feel that the teacher is trying to embrace the students' culture.
Also in my first grade room, the teacher, who seems very white and has no accent, was speaking fluent Spanish with a student in her room. It seemed like he didn't want to do his work, but when she spoke to him in Spanish, he responded to her and did her work.
I thought that this was very relative to the class so I thought I'd share!
Also in my first grade room, the teacher, who seems very white and has no accent, was speaking fluent Spanish with a student in her room. It seemed like he didn't want to do his work, but when she spoke to him in Spanish, he responded to her and did her work.
I thought that this was very relative to the class so I thought I'd share!
Friday, October 15, 2010
In the Service of What? by Kahne and Westheimer
ARGUMENT
Kahne and Westheimer argue about the reasons behind service learning.
They say that "service learning can improve the community and invigorate the classroom, providing rich educational experiences for students at all levels of schooling." If this is true, then why is there such controversy on the subject?
There seem to be two main subjects to the argument, service learning for charity, or service learning to identify and respond (change).
The most popular theme these authors write is charity work, not change. In FNED, we do charity for our service learning according to Kahne and Westheimer. We tutor students and have "the joy of reaching out to others".
With change, you work to identify the problem and respond. You learn "moral acuity, and the social sensitivity they would develop as the learned to assess critically and respond collectively to authentic problems." You attempt to "apprehend the reality of the other". You try to experience someone else's life. When you do this, you have an understanding of another person and how they live.
There was a table that looked like this in the article:
Moral Political Intellectual
Charity giving civic duty additive experience
Change caring social reconstruction transformative experience
It is pretty self explanatory, but it clearly shows what is what kind of service and think it was very helpful in my understanding of the article.
This article argues that there is a difference between charity and change. That with charity, sometimes there is a lack of actually really helping someone. "many current service activities emphasize altruism and charity and fail to call into question current notions of individualism or to encourage the type of political participation that furthers democracy."
Anothe argument is that there is now charity work that raises self-esteem and creates new experiences. But those who believe in the transformative exprience, believe it is a combination of service and critical analysis. It is there to promost interest and insight into social issues.
There are many other details concerning the different reasons that cause people to do services.
In class, I think we should talk about what people think we are doing in class. If we are doing it because we have to (charity) or that we are learning about how to live like other people and becoming more aware of social issues (change).
I found this youtube video. It is sort of annoying and dorky, but it still explains everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs1kF_kO1c
Kahne and Westheimer argue about the reasons behind service learning.
They say that "service learning can improve the community and invigorate the classroom, providing rich educational experiences for students at all levels of schooling." If this is true, then why is there such controversy on the subject?
There seem to be two main subjects to the argument, service learning for charity, or service learning to identify and respond (change).
The most popular theme these authors write is charity work, not change. In FNED, we do charity for our service learning according to Kahne and Westheimer. We tutor students and have "the joy of reaching out to others".
With change, you work to identify the problem and respond. You learn "moral acuity, and the social sensitivity they would develop as the learned to assess critically and respond collectively to authentic problems." You attempt to "apprehend the reality of the other". You try to experience someone else's life. When you do this, you have an understanding of another person and how they live.
There was a table that looked like this in the article:
Moral Political Intellectual
Charity giving civic duty additive experience
Change caring social reconstruction transformative experience
It is pretty self explanatory, but it clearly shows what is what kind of service and think it was very helpful in my understanding of the article.
This article argues that there is a difference between charity and change. That with charity, sometimes there is a lack of actually really helping someone. "many current service activities emphasize altruism and charity and fail to call into question current notions of individualism or to encourage the type of political participation that furthers democracy."
Anothe argument is that there is now charity work that raises self-esteem and creates new experiences. But those who believe in the transformative exprience, believe it is a combination of service and critical analysis. It is there to promost interest and insight into social issues.
There are many other details concerning the different reasons that cause people to do services.
In class, I think we should talk about what people think we are doing in class. If we are doing it because we have to (charity) or that we are learning about how to live like other people and becoming more aware of social issues (change).
I found this youtube video. It is sort of annoying and dorky, but it still explains everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs1kF_kO1c
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Third Day, and Delpit's Disappointment
Deplit in the Classroom
On my third day at Asa Messer Annex, if Deplit was in the classroom, she would of been very disappointed in my kindergarten teacher. She would always say to the children "Is it time to be talking?" "Is that the right way to stand in line?"
We learned from Deplit that teachers should be direct. "Do not talk" "Stand quietly and still"
I was surprised that my teacher made this mistake so many times. I know that you can slip up every once in a while, but to have this be a teaching habit seems inefficient to me.
On my third day at Asa Messer Annex, if Deplit was in the classroom, she would of been very disappointed in my kindergarten teacher. She would always say to the children "Is it time to be talking?" "Is that the right way to stand in line?"
We learned from Deplit that teachers should be direct. "Do not talk" "Stand quietly and still"
I was surprised that my teacher made this mistake so many times. I know that you can slip up every once in a while, but to have this be a teaching habit seems inefficient to me.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us by Linda Christensen
ARGUMENT
Christensen argues that Disney movies and cartoons shape our lives and has manipulated people to believe in stereotypes. She uses many different examples of what she taught in her classrooms. One quote that she used by another author was "The secondhand information we receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete..." The author is saying that in our lives, we are never introduced to many other people that are not part of our family and that we learn about others from movies at a young age, and that the movies teach us a bad lesson.
Christensen is a teacher and constructed her class around watching and investigating old cartoons and Disney movies. At the end of this class, many students said they were never to watch these movies again, or ever let their children watch them. It makes one wonder how much these students found when they investigated these movies.
She says how there are many patterns as you watch the movies. There is racism and other stereotypes concerning the people that are the servants, the buffoon, the lead role, the race, ethnicity, and how people are perceived.
She also argues that "There should be more women of color who play the leads in these white-on-white wedding cake tales." There are very few Disney movies that have none white characters, and there's only one movie that is new with an African American Princess.
I found two links that help support Christensen's case against cartoons and Disney movies.
This first link is of old Disney quotes, pictures, and videos that seem either racist or stereotypical. I was surprised at the length of the list that was given.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html
This second website gives detailed information of stereotypes in cartoons and advertisments.
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01443/gs_media.html
In class, I think it would be a good idea to come up with several different examples of stereotypes in the areas discussed in this article. I think it will help some people realise the fact that Christensen raises. We were all manipulated at a young age to believe in such stereotypes that we still don't even know it.
Christensen argues that Disney movies and cartoons shape our lives and has manipulated people to believe in stereotypes. She uses many different examples of what she taught in her classrooms. One quote that she used by another author was "The secondhand information we receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete..." The author is saying that in our lives, we are never introduced to many other people that are not part of our family and that we learn about others from movies at a young age, and that the movies teach us a bad lesson.
Christensen is a teacher and constructed her class around watching and investigating old cartoons and Disney movies. At the end of this class, many students said they were never to watch these movies again, or ever let their children watch them. It makes one wonder how much these students found when they investigated these movies.
She says how there are many patterns as you watch the movies. There is racism and other stereotypes concerning the people that are the servants, the buffoon, the lead role, the race, ethnicity, and how people are perceived.
She also argues that "There should be more women of color who play the leads in these white-on-white wedding cake tales." There are very few Disney movies that have none white characters, and there's only one movie that is new with an African American Princess.
I found two links that help support Christensen's case against cartoons and Disney movies.
This first link is of old Disney quotes, pictures, and videos that seem either racist or stereotypical. I was surprised at the length of the list that was given.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html
This second website gives detailed information of stereotypes in cartoons and advertisments.
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01443/gs_media.html
In class, I think it would be a good idea to come up with several different examples of stereotypes in the areas discussed in this article. I think it will help some people realise the fact that Christensen raises. We were all manipulated at a young age to believe in such stereotypes that we still don't even know it.
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