tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14761271126279473562024-03-14T06:34:48.589-07:00Derek's FNED blogDerekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-87871541722820183142016-12-08T05:46:00.001-08:002016-12-08T05:46:50.712-08:00Ira Shor <div class="MsoNormal">
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this article by <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0T0ZxUlEwOUNJWlU/view">Ira Shor</a> to be harder to read than most of the past topics. Not
only because the text was just extremely hard to visually look at but also
because of the style of writing. With that said I found the article to be very
I opening. I really liked all the questions that it proposed throughout and
perhaps that was done on purpose because the whole time Shor’s point is to
questions the education you are receiving. For me I loved this; it provided a
way of looking at the education system that I truly like myself. I personally
like to be challenged in a classroom and forced to think outside the box, it’s
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The two
things that stood out to me the most while reading this was that this article
clear was a way to sum up the rest of the articles we had read throughout the
semester. Shor basically can be related to almost anyone we would like. The second
thing is that our class this semester feels like it is planned with <a href="http://mediaeducation.org.mt/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/What-is-Critical-Literacy.pdf">Ira Shor’smessages</a> in mind. By challenging us and getting us to speak opening, it
empowers everyone in the class to feel important, smart, and comfortable most
of all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While maybe
not the key point of the article there was a line that resonated with me more
than any other. “In class, as Apple suggested and as Giroux (1983) and Banks
(1991) have as argues, the choice of subject matter cannot be neutral.” (Shor
3) This too me started getting me thinking about the schooling system and how
it is extremely bias. I knew that SCWAAP and other things played a role in
schools and how the curriculum is set up but I did not think about it in depth.
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Our
schools are made up of people from so many cultures however, our schools only
teach from the perspectives of one culture. What I mean by that and possibly
the easier to understand is that we teach our history lessons from the point of
view of “our” ancestors. “Our” being the keep phase here. They are not my
ancestors my family was French then moved to Canada were they finally came into
the United States about four generations back. So even though the founding
fathers may have the same skin tone as me they are not my ancestors. This is
even more true for the people who were forced here as slaves or the Native Americans
who were here first. However, our history lessons do no teach the history of
early Africa and what it was like for them prior to being ripped from their
homes, they don’t teach about Native American culture prior to settling in the
Americas. Even the parts they do touch on its how the Europeans affected those
people not about the people themselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Never
the less I got a little off topic but the point is still valid. We do not allow
students to thing about the things that are outside the box. Maybe if we let
them find things that they want to learn about they would push the envelope and
want to learn more and more.</div>
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<o:p></o:p>Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-78890865455332979002016-12-07T19:59:00.002-08:002016-12-07T19:59:59.346-08:00Citizenship in SchoolKliewer's article about how students with disabilities, specifically down syndrome, are treated in schools today and how we should fix the issues that many schools take part in. For my this article was special because while I do not have any family members that are down syndrome, I do have a cousin who is autistic. While the two are not same by any means, I have witnessed first hand how differently he is treated. Kliewer argues that children with disabilities should be placed into rooms with non-disabled children. I could not agree more. My cousin was held back for many years by the school system until my aunt and uncle moved to change to a school system that would not isolate him with only other disabled child. When he was finally given a chance he started to shine. He was able to get some good grades and got into college. After GRADUATING he was offered a career opportunity and holds down that job today. This is an example of what Kliewer wants to happen with our schools. To make sure that everyone is on a level playing field while in school and receives the same education.<br />
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For me this article could not relate to anyone better then <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0RjNSSW1ueTNfRTA/view">Jennie Oakes</a>. It does not matter if you are talking about students who are extremely bright for their age, ones that are just falling behind a bit, or students with disabilities, Oakes would agree that they all deserve the same education and should be treated equally in our schools. "Colleen Madison agreed with Shayne that no child was inherently an intellectual burden to a classroom; in fact, she argues, each student contributes a unique and potentially valuable dimension to the web of relationships that form a school community." (Kleiwer p7) I really liked this because when I think back to my days in high school we did not have the students that were disabled in the classrooms with us but yet we all still knew their names. How did we know their names when they were never in any class with any of us? They still played a role in how the schools community was even when the school itself was trying to keep them separated. I think the thing to take away from this is that Oake and Kliewer would agree that putting students in the same room no matter what their abilities are can only help them.Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-14644825564035069102016-12-07T17:46:00.000-08:002016-12-20T19:25:39.456-08:00Promising Practice<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I attended the Promising Practice seminar in the
hopes that I would be able to learn something that could help me with my career
in education. I’m extremely sad to say that I found the workshops to be a waste
of my time. While the guest speaker at the event was great and extremely enlightening
the workshops that followed did not provide me with any kind of use. The two
workshops that I attended were “<i>How
mentoring relationships improve resiliency of our youth and our workforce” </i>and
<i>“Healthy Lifestyles: Your health, your
choice”. </i>I was excited going into
this because I felt like both of these topics could have a lot to offer me. I
was sad when this became a flop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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made me the most upset was that the guest speaker that came was fantastic. <a href="http://www.drrobertbrooks.com/">Dr Robert Brooks</a> was well prepared and well spoken and by far the best part of the day. He told us some great stories of his life
and how it affected him and his decisions in life. All of these things turned
out to be a precursor to a huge waste of my time. What makes it worse is I
spoke with some of my other classmates who took other workshops and they loved
theirs. I’m happy that they found something useful but upset that I just felt
like mine were not done right at all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first workshop “<i>How mentoring
relationships improve resiliency of our youth and our workforce</i>”<i> </i>sounded like it was going to be great I
was excited to go into the class. It sounded like they would be addressing things similar to the <a href="http://beabig.bbbsmb.org/?src=google_webppc_284574366_big%20brothers_content_e_g_%7Bquerystring%7D">Big Brother Program</a>. Instead the first thing we did in our 45 min workshop
was went around the room of about 20 people and talked about ourselves and why
we took the class. OK; I’m OK with this but then she asked us to talk with
another person in the group for a little bit about someone who is a mentor to
us. We didn’t share this with anyone they didn’t elaborate on this with their
own thoughts, nothing it just took up more time. Finally there was a PowerPoint
presentation to wrap up the workshop. The thing that was the worst in the class
is they had a younger girl in the room from a rough high school that they were
mentoring. Instead of letting her tell us her story or what the program did
from her they had her read two slides of a presentation that seemed extremely insincere.
She seemed like they asked her to come and read what they wrote on the
presentation. She was struggling with some of the works on the board the “she”
was supposed to have written. The whole thing seem staged and lost credibility to
me. The girl in the class however could be related to Kristof's story about his friend Rick. This girl was said to be smart and now back on track with their help however, before she entered the program she was just like Rick. The girl was always acting up and getting in trouble, but instead of suspending her now she gets help and i think Kristof would be pleased with the goals. I guess if I was to take what they were saying at face value and assume that the girl was just not into the presentation, which is why she would have came off insincere, I would say that Oakes would make a strong case of change here versus just charity. However if this program is what I saw and this girl might have been getting help but nothing is changing its just another case of charity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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left the first workshop and was talking to other people I knew that had taken
other ones. They seemed happy and excited still, so I got my hopes back up.
Maybe this second workshop would be better; maybe it would be like what the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It sure wasn’t. </span>It was worse than
the first one! The second workshop “<i>Healthy
Lifestyles: Your health, your choice” </i>was a much smaller class so I thought
maybe it would be more personalized. Maybe this would give tips on how to be more nutritious or physically active, even the <a href="http://www.eatright.org/resource/food/nutrition/nutrition-facts-and-food-labels/the-basics-of-the-nutrition-facts-panel">basics</a> would be nice but I had my hopes up for nothing. They had a few interesting facts to throw
at us but the entire time we were there they were pitching us. In other words,
I felt like they were trying to recruit us to work for their group. I could not believe that I was just sitting in
a room for 45 minutes again and listening to them talk about their company and how
if we wanted we could work with them too. Even though I felt that this was worse than the first experience however, looking back I cannot help but realize that Delpit would look at my actions and see the rules and codes of power. Even though nothing that came out of the presenters mouth was important to me and I felt like it was a waste of time I knew that I needed to stay in the class to finish my assignment and receive a better grade. This kept me from leaving the room even though if I has left no one would have said a word and there would have been no way anyone would have known. So the Code of power made me consciously stay in the room. </span></div>
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know, I could just be looking at this the wrong way but to me I was disappointed.
What I thought had such great potential turned out to be a waste of a Saturday morning.
I will always be open to giving something like this another shot but I might
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<o:p></o:p>Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-86017625080531054452016-11-26T10:42:00.000-08:002016-11-26T10:48:41.027-08:00Oakes Quotes<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
In Jeannie <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0RjNSSW1ueTNfRTA/view">Oakes article</a> on tracking
in our school systems, she talked about how we as a society place our children
into groups early in life that basically predetermines their futures. Oakes
discusses how children’s intelligence is determined early in their life and
when they appear to be above average intelligence they are put into classroom
with other students who are deemed to above average. The same goes for the
children who are deemed to have low abilities in the classroom. The issue that
is being made here is that by placing these children in groups you are helping definitely
helping the students in the above average levels however you are subsequently hurting
the majority of other students. There are three quotes that I would like to use
to help to convey this point in Oakes article.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“A number of studies have found
that top-track classes spend more class time on learning activities and less on
discipline, socializing, or class routines.”(Oakes p1)<o:p></o:p></div>
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This line to me truly stood out
because of how important focus and the ability to lock into material are to me.
I have been in both types of these rooms in high school myself. For my math
classes I was initially placed in a general education level class that was far beneath
my skill level. When I was in this class we were handed worksheets and the
teacher walked around the room trying to keep order and keep kids on task more
often than trying to teach new or harder material. As it became clear to the
teacher that I was doing the worksheets and other materials in minutes and then
was bored looking for things to do, she decided to talk to administration about
bumping me up into an honors math class. After a few weeks I was transferred into
this class and things changed drastically for me. Rather than worrying about
what the students were doing the teacher was doing problems on the board asking
for the us to get involved in the problems and how we might solve things that
might be just slightly ahead of what we are learning to see if we can think
logically using what we already have known.
The class became more challenging for sure however; I pushed me to
become better in math than I already was. This is a perfect example or what
Oakes was talking about when she talks about tracking. Sadly not all teachers
would have noticed that I was ahead of the rest of the class or even if they
did they might not have done anything about it. This would have caused me to
sit and be bored and more than likely not have learned as much in math as I did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“In low-ability classes, for
example, teachers seem to be less encouraging and more punitive, placing more
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Again just to relate this back to
my own personal life this sentence makes a strong impression on me. When I was
in high school we had 3 floors the lowest floor being called the “basement” The
only class’s that were held in “the basement”, were the heath classes for
everyone, and the low-ability classes for the kids who were extremely
disruptive. The example of tracking started from their early childhood when
most of the kids were placed into special programs they use to be taken out of
their classes for extra help and which would take away from their time with the
other students to interact. Once at the high school level these kids seemed to
have lost all desire to do anything school related and would just mess around.
Within the school they were known as a “basement kid”, which was a term that no
one used in a positive way. It meant that you were stupid. Other children would
be fighting about a problem in a class and use it in conversation saying “are
you stupid? What are you a basement kid?” and no one would think anything of
that. The classrooms were known for being loud and extremely out of control.
The students were curse out their teachers, throw things across the room as
other people, and just flat out refuse to do work in the classroom. Most of
their classes from what I saw when I would pass by for health, were the
teachers just trying to joke and reason with the kids to keep them calm. It’s
no wonder why a vast majority of those kids dropped out of high school or were
expelled. The sad thing is I lived next door to one of those kids for a few
years before his family moved to the other side of town and he was an extremely
intelligent person he was just placed into this class early on and became cynical
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-51220058780716157252016-11-13T15:44:00.003-08:002016-12-20T19:27:10.673-08:00Map the Authors<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MW7EeCo_EouMZXHvg0ERADAFkA7VdUJ8aBvwl4WEyY4/edit?usp=sharing">Map the Authors</a>Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-63422774861134330562016-10-31T18:07:00.002-07:002016-10-31T18:20:06.328-07:00The Problem We All Live With<div class="MsoNormal">
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and reading this weak the authors and narrators have a common theme of segregation
in the schools. While they point out time and time again that it has been
decades since Brown vs The Board of Education, they want to bring awareness to
the fact that schools across this country are still not as unsegregated as they
could be. Laws have made sure that a school system cannot tell a student of
different race or ethnicity that they cannot come to their school. What instead
happens is that due to demographics playing out to where minorities tend to
live in inner cities they end up getting segregated anyway. The concern here is
that these inner city schools have a bad track record with not being able to
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of all backgrounds and incomes receive the same education? Many different
options have been tried usually changes being made to the curriculum or
teachers being fired and new ones being hired. The issues with this are that it
doesn’t fix the problems at their core. For me, I see <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0Uk96Z2g3NDI2bkU/view">Joseph Kayne’s</a> argument of
charity versus change here. By making alterations to the faculty, the curriculum,
or anything else you are just putting band-aids on the real problems, which is
almost a form of charity. The real problem is that the poverty of the area out weights
anything else and has a chain reaction that affects the quality of supplies,
teachers, and curriculum. Unfortunately there are not many things currently in
place that will help fix this situation except for what the narrators of the
audio link talk about, which is to integrate the school systems. This is the
change that Kayne tells us we need in order to really have what we are doing
make a difference. By integrating the school and making it so children in lower
income areas can go to a higher income school system they will be able to achieve
better things in life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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others. People misinterpreted why things are the way they are quite often. It’s
easier to categorize people than to help and want to change the way the world
is. What </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/opinion/22herbert.html?_r=4&src=tptw">Bob Herbert</a> of the New York Times tells us is “<span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Studies have shown that it is not the
race of the students that is significant, but rather the improved all-around
environment of schools with better teachers, fewer classroom disruptions,
pupils who are more engaged academically, parents who are more involved, and so
on</span>.”(Herbert p10) What he is saying and how it correlates to the audio
link is that with a more involved community in the academic area of children’s
lives, these young students all have the same potential to reach whatever goals
and dreams they might have.</span></div>
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go wrong with this plan however as well. Even though this method has proven to
be helpful to the children, two major issues come about. The first is that it
becomes hard to transport the students from one district to another, in the
sense that it just takes times. So when students would have to get up an extra
one to two hours earlier to go to this better school sometimes they won’t want
to deal with it. The other issue is that when integration takes place what will
sometimes happen are the affluent families in the area move away. This defeats
the whole purpose of integrating the school since if the families you are
trying to merge with are moving away the school just becomes a long commute to
the same school the students were already in. Going back to Kayne and charity
vs change; regardless of what we are trying to do unless we can implement this integration
strategy or something like it country wide there will never really be “Change”
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-62338249259578161142016-10-24T20:10:00.000-07:002016-10-24T20:10:36.719-07:00The Politics of Service Learning<div class="MsoNormal">
Joseph Kahne writes about how service learning is used in
our society to help better both the individuals taking part in the service
learning projects as well as the people or community they are trying to help. He also brings into light that while a wide
spread group of people from all affiliations and background agree that service
learning projects are helpful, they do sometimes disagree on how service
learning should be done. The two types in a nut shell are “charity” and “change”.
Charity is more about how you can give things to the less fortunate in order to
help them, whether it be your time, food, or something else it’s about helping
them out with something that will make their lives better. Change is more about
being hands on and interacting or putting more research into something. It’s
about makes a personal connection with what or who you are trying to help with
in society. While both of these sides have valid points and contribute to
helping everyone involved they have different outcomes on the students that are
taking part in the service learning projects. The students that are working more
along the lines of charity tend to get a warm and happy feeling that they did
something to help out and the people or groups that they helped receive the
support they needed. On the other side the students working to affect change in
the community have more of a person relationship with the group or people that
they are working with and have a better understanding of the individuals they
are helping. In turn these students are able to both look at a group in
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to service learning is that students get hands on experience in areas that
might interest them for later in life. These experiences could be volunteering in
areas like public service such as elementary schools or even areas like hospitals
where students can help do minor tasks but can see the ins and outs of the
fields and possibly gain a direction for themselves before heading off to
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-49906635570297049752016-10-24T16:02:00.000-07:002016-10-24T16:12:03.393-07:00Debate Issues Quotes<div class="MsoNormal">
In the two articles that I read this week by <a href="http://time.com/4527277/jill-soloway-donald-trump-locker-rooms-toxic-masculinity/?xid=homepage">Jill Soloway</a>
and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speeches-sexism.html?_r=0">Amy Chozick</a> they bother address how women are treated in today’s society in
particular politics. Soloway focuses on the recent “locker room” talk of Donald
Trump. She says that Trumps’ locker room talk is something that all men know
about and/or even take part in. She goes on to say that just because all men
know about it doesn’t mean that we should accept this something that just
happens. She compares it to people using racial slurs when talking about people
who are black. I remember how there was
absolutely a moment in American history where the civil rights movement powered
a hard left turn, where white people talking about black people in polite
company, where using the once tossed around N word in front of another white
person became cause for lawsuit, firing, social suicide, exclusion.(Soloway p8)
This example of how white Americans used to talk about black Americans when
they were behind closed doors has become a huge issue in today’s society even
though how men talk about women in the same type of context has not. Her point
is that if a white person was to talk to another white person behind closed
doors it could lead to punishments of all kinds. However, if a man talks to
another man behind closed doors it is considered “bro code” to just joke and
play along or not say anything. This issue is not being talked about which is
what Allen Johnson is talking about in his article “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0U3o3NW1ka0UzZTQ/view">Privilege, Power, and Difference.</a>” Johnson talks about how we aren’t
discussing the issue and how “you can’t deal with a problem if you don’t name
it;”(Johnson p11) Because men have the “bro code” and either don’t talk about
the “locker room” talk or if they do talk about it they are ostracized for it,
they don’t do anything to try to stop this. Sadly the other catch twenty-two is
that the people, who would speak out against it (woman), aren’t usually in the “locker
room” conversation so they don’t hear it as often. (Even though most know it
happens) The issue here is that we need to make a change with how women are
talked about and not just the ones that are close to use but all women. <o:p></o:p></div>
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other Article by Chozick talks about Hilary Clinton and how as a society we
have bias toward things. This can relate to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0ZXdvUDB5X3lDVDg/view">Delpit</a> in the sense that Clinton is
breaking the “codes or power” in this country by being female and running for President
of the country, which has been a “mans” job from the start of the country. Clinton
even went on record saying “she does not have the natural oratory skills of her
husband or President Obama, has been tailoring her voice and tone for years.”(Chozick
p3) This is a perfect example of the next potential President of the United
States, admitting to conforming to the “codes of power” to help her achieve a
goal that should be obtainable regardless of her gender. Sadly in this case her
way of speaking is criticized and critiqued by people in the country for the
first time ever just because she is under such scrutiny in the public eye. Again, this is a catch twenty-two which seems
to be the theme this week, since if she does not conform to the “codes of power”,
she might not be taken as seriously to begin with and if she does conform she
gets ridiculed for it. Chozicks point in her article goes slightly deeper into
this issue stating that if Hilary were a man this issue of her speaking
patterns would never even be brought up. In this case I personally think we
need to look at the bigger picture and not so much on how <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/hillary-clinton-9251306">Hilary Clinton</a> puts inflections
in her voice. </div>
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August’s <i>Safe Spaces</i> is an article on
LGBT and how we as a society do not include LGBT people in our ways of bring up
our youth. August talks about how we discuss many issues in our classrooms and
at home in regards to race and gender but when it comes to sexual orientation
the topic gets pushed aside more so than the others would. While August does address how people are
raised in different family environments and that will have an impact on how
they look at things in life, she really wanted us to focus on how educators in
the country affect students in especial regards to LGBT students. “Classrooms
lay the foundations for an inclusive and safe society: a just community where
common interests and individual differences coexist.”(August p3) This quote to
me was a great line to have toward the beginning of the article, noting that
classrooms are where all demographics of every type should feel welcome and
safe. The issue becomes that LGBT students do not feel safe in these environments
quite often. The issue is that as adults or teachers we do not send a message
to students that a student being LGBT is no different than a student being of a
different race, in the sense that it should not affect how you look or treat
that person. The other issue is what Delpit talks about when she discusses the “culture
of powe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">r”. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0ZXdvUDB5X3lDVDg/view">Delpit</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">talks about how the “norms” get pushed onto us in society, in
this case the “norm” being heterosexuality. The perfect example of this in the
August text is when Maria has an issue with her Spanish teacher. Her teacher
marked her answer wrong on a test when she used the female tense on the word “sweetheart”
rather than the male tense because the teacher wanted a heterosexual answer
even though the answer was correct both ways. Even though her teacher marked
this incorrect it is not necessarily coming from a place of hatred for LGBT
individuals. The professor marked the answer wrong and could have just thought
she messed up translation. However, instead of finding out if the student was
aware of what was on the test and if it was in fact done for the right reason,
the teacher just assumed that the answer was incorrect. Once again this is a
way that teachers or adults can have a negative impact on LGBT children or
students.</span></div>
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teach students at an early age that families come in all different forms. “The
oft-stated objective is for children to learn that families come in different
shapes and sized, live in different dwellings, observe different traditions,
and celebrate different holidays.” (August p5) She mentions the different
parenting types like single parents, foster parents, and the two parent households,
but what she also says is that we don’t embrace a same sex couple raising
children the same way we do the others. It is still a really big issue today
that with all the political correctness that we try to do, for some reason the
nation still has an extremely hard time accepting two people of the same sex
raising a family. It is not displayed on television, movies, or magazines, and
if it is, it becomes extremely <a href="http://www.highsnobiety.com/2015/11/09/queer-cartoons-history/">controversial</a>. And the ones that are displayed are not always the best representation of the LGBT community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">With everything that August
beings up being so accurate in how we look and treat LGBT individuals it’s no
wonder why people don’t feel comfortable identifying their sexual orientation especially
at younger ages where the concern of judgement from peers is highest. We need
to work on this a society to fix the injustices that are happening every day.</span></div>
Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-78864116221606218622016-10-04T21:24:00.003-07:002016-10-04T21:24:43.781-07:00Christensen Argument <div class="MsoNormal">
This author (Linda Christensen) argues that Disney and other
major corporations teach young impressionable children the “codes” of society
through there movie, advertisements, and shows. Her argument is that if really
examined the Disney shows, they are geared to teach children the things that
are valued in America, in reference to race, religion, sex, and more. Her
largest issue though is that people that do take a long into the Disney movie
mostly take away that all the main characters are white, rather than looking at
the big picture. Her claim is that the big picture is the fact that the movies depict
so many more issues than just race. Things like sexism come to play by always
having the main characters be male, and having the main female characters
always just are looking for love. “Her goal, like Cinderella’s is to get her
man. Both young women are transformed and made beautiful through new clothes,
new jewels, new hairstyles.”(Christensen 7) She wants young women to believe there is more
to life then make overs and getting the guy, otherwise life is just shallow.
Her point is that she believes that the way the Disney movies are set up they
are basically brainwashing the children in the country to learn and follow the
codes of power. She refers to this as “the secret education”. (Christensen 1) For
Christensen, Disney should work on re-evaluating what is being portrayed to the
children of our country and what kind of message they are trying to send. Are
they going to really “improve” their movies to make better idols for young
children or just keep perpetuating the same <a href="https://mic.com/articles/88167/9-harmful-stereotypes-we-never-realized-our-favorite-disney-movies-taught-us#.9vHNqb1ND">stereotypes</a>? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-58759390545323106522016-09-25T20:53:00.000-07:002016-09-25T20:53:53.941-07:00Teaching Multilingual Children (Extended Comments)<div class="MsoNormal">
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Collier has written an article on “Teaching Multilingual Children”. The article
was based around how we look at multilingual children in the country and how we
handle teaching English as a second language. A fellow classmate of mine <a href="http://hayleyfned346.blogspot.com/">Hayley Dias</a> has recently wrote a small piece reviewing the article by Collier and putting
in her own personal experiences as well as additional information given by
Collier. Hayley first addresses upcoming events for our class, where we will be
attending a local school they more than likely will have a few ESL students and
how it relates to Collier’s article. She also references how coming from a Portuguese
heritage and speaking a second language herself she has a way to relate to the
young children who also speak two languages. What was terrific about how she began her
article was how being bilingual has helped her and how she is extremely happy
to be able to speak a second language. It was also really nice to see how she
wanted to use her own life experiences with two languages to encourage the
students to learn to really love their own. I think this will be a huge benefit
to both her and the kids that she will get to work with in the classrooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hayley gets more into what Collier was talking about in her article she
mentions a few quotes that she personally liked. She quotes on that I also
really thought was interesting which was “Children acquiring a second language will
self-correct their own utterances over time as they progress though the various
stages of life.” (128)(Collier 224) I thought this was a huge quote that not
lot of teachers or people think about when they are seeing children trying to
learn a second language. As children we grow up making mistakes in how we speak
all the team and as we get older we start to realize that we are saying things improperly
and correct ourselves. I do not think that people give that luxury to people
that are learning a second language, if the second language they are learning
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other point that Hayley brought up that I really liked was her last one on
Language recognition in the classroom. I
agree with Hayley and how working to teach students in standard form of English,
and the student’s home language can help them to feel more comfortable with
themselves and the material. Collier says “The student, because of conscious or
unconscious emotional or social factors that keep him or her from taking in
maximum input at that time, may miss other input.”(Collier 225) Meaning, that
if children are self-conscious and are embarrassed or afraid of looking silly
in front of the others around them it will cause them to not grasp the things
that they are being taught. Because of this struggle, they will then fall
behind even more because the things they have failed to learn the first time
around may be vital to learning the next stages in what is being taught. Now,
instead of being one step behind from the start they are two. This will eventually
lead to failing further and further behind till it is at a point where the
child is being looked at as having a problem in the particular area. This is particularly true with ESL students that
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thing that Hayley did not talk about that I wanted to just add in was that there
are some people who think that we should (as Collier put it) “Eradicate”
dialects that are not the “standard”. This method as Collier note is actually
one of the worst in not the worst things that we could do for young children
growing up. It has been proven that by nurturing the child and all language or
dialects the second language will come to be much stronger much faster. Sadly <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/Indicator_CGF/COE_CGF_2013_05.pdf">studies</a>
have shown that ESL or ELL students are still behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-63024180135246397312016-09-18T20:51:00.003-07:002016-09-18T20:51:44.283-07:00White Privilege Hyperlinks<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Peggy McIntosh wrote an article
"White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" that dove into how
our country has a way to overlooking privileges that might not be directly thrown
in our faces. Her article while have a terrific point in my opinion was
extremely repetitive during the paragraphs that she was setting up to list her
privileges. She basically just kept repeating that white privilege is something
that we do not see if we are white, and that we take for granted the things
that others might not. Her examples and her point however are none the less
great, I just wished she would take out some of the filler and just cut to it.
With that said white privilege is something that most white Americans do not
like to talk about and if they do they tend not to admit too much which
perpetuates the cycle of nothing being changed to stop it. </span></div>
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In our society it is easy for white Americans growing up to not realize
the struggles of others in our country. Everything that we see around us as
McIntosh points out reflex what we thing is the “norm”. Every magazine we pick
up, every add on television or even the shows themselves, all have white people
as the majority cast members or front cover headlines. I do not think McIntosh
or anyone else for that matter would make the claim that every single show or
magazine is this way however, the vast majority of them are.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from 2001-2010 called “Scrubs”. The show would air multiple times a day and
would primarily feature this core group of actors and actresses. “I think
whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, just as males are
taught not to recognize male privilege.”(McIntosh 4) What McIntosh is trying to
say in her article, that relates here is that while we grow up watching shows
like this, it never crosses the minds of young white Americans that there are
only two main character that are not white. So to the white views this is just
the “norm”, but in this case to young African American or Hispanic views, they
have the one person in the show that looks like them. This is a perfect example
of how Americans experience the “Invisible white privilege”.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The in this case you can also take a look into the fact that shows will throw
in the “token” black character. In fact one of the most ruthless shows on
television even tries to show us this through a comical point of view. This is
South Park, one of the most popular animated shows ever created. They make a
living off of ripping into cultural issues of all kinds. In this case they
literally name the one black child in the town Token.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Another issue that McIntosh brings up in her list is how white privilege
also affects things in the justice system. While many do not wish this to be
the case our justice system is flawed in major ways. "If a traffic cop
pulls me over or the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven't been
singled out because of my face."(McIntosh example 25) Every day we have
police pull people over simply for looking different in areas that they
personally think those people have no reason to be in. They do not stop to
think that maybe they just moved in, or maybe they are visiting friends, or
maybe they are just cutting through. They do it because they think it is
helping others when really it’s just white privilege kicking in again. They
aren't getting pulled over for any other reason than the color of their skin
not fitting the "norm" of the area. In 2011 a <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=702"><span style="color: blue;">study</span></a> was
done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that showed black drivers where pulled
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Finally in one recent event a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/us/brock-turner-release/"><span style="color: blue;">Brock Turner</span></a> a student attending Stanford
University raped a young woman behind a dumpster in an alley while she was
unconscious. He was caught in the act by two other men walking by and when
approached by the men Brock fled. After being caught and brought to trial Brock
basically got off completely for his actions. The issue this brought and why it
relates to McIntosh's article is that Brock received a lesser sentence then
most convicted rapists. Most rapists receive years of jail time instead Brock
received <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/06/what-makes-the-stanford-sex-offenders-six-month-jail-sentence-so-unusual/"><span style="color: blue;">months</span></a>. I'm not trying to say that the same judge
would have rendered a different verdict if Brock were not white for sure, but <a href="http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOO.PDF"><span style="color: blue;">statistically</span></a> with
eye witness testimony there should have been a higher conviction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With everything that McIntosh is telling us we really need to make a
better effort to acknowledge white privilege in order to top if from continuing
in the future. Then as generations go by with no changes that just more and
more of a barrier to overcome. We need to change the way we advertise, the
things that are presented on all channels of television, the way we run our
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-65934362582957070642016-09-12T20:58:00.002-07:002016-09-12T21:11:24.636-07:00Nicholas Kristof's "Land of Limitations?"<div>
<span style="background-color: #073763;"><span style="background-color: #073763; color: lime;"> </span><span style="background-color: #073763; color: lime;"><span style="background-color: #073763;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Nicholas </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kristof</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #073763;"> brings an insight and perspective
to how poverty in America has become a vicious part of our society. Though his
article he addressed how huge numbers of Americans are unable to grow and
become successful in today's society, not because they are lazy or dumb, but
because they were born into a lower economic class that is unable to provide
them with the resources to excel. He centralizes his thoughts around how the
country has diverged from what I was founded on which was the dream of being
able to make your own path and has turned into the very thing that our fore
fathers where trying to escape, which was having huge gaps between classes that
were nearly impossible to break out of. His point was that the way our economy
is set up today, it is designed to keep the rich</span><span style="background-color: #073763;"> </span><span style="background-color: #073763;">people at the top and the poor
people at the bottom no matter what their person intelligence or strengths. Now
he also made it very clear that this is not to say no one has ever been able to
get rich growing up in low economic areas or that someone who is rich could
become poor one day. He is simply stating that the likelihood of that happen
has become smaller and smaller as years have passed. </span></span><span style="background-color: #073763; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Kristof</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #073763;"> used </span><span style="background-color: #073763;">a home town friend to
illustrate this point that he was making. He uses his friend to really bring a
few key problems to our attention.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #073763; color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #073763;"> The three things really stuck out to me able <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kristof's</span> friend Ricks story. The first
was that Rick was a smart young man whose parents left him early on forced to
basically grow up with little help from family. This lack of parenting and
guidance can cause long term effects on children. I personally have a few close
friends whose parents did not play a role in their lives. I can see on many
occasions that they are smart and hardworking individuals but for some reason
lack the social skills to get ahead in life. For some reason they always seem
to fall short even though in many areas of life they are smarter than a lot of
friends that have graduated from College. This is a perfect example of what was
being talked about when </span><span style="background-color: #073763;">Kristof</span><span style="background-color: #073763;"> was
mentioning things that some people have access to that others do not. "77
percent of adults in the top 25 percent of incomes earn a B.A. by age 24. Only
9 percent of those in the bottom 25 percent do so."</span></span><span style="background-color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 13pt;">(Nicholas </span><span style="background-color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 13pt;">Kristof</span><span style="background-color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 13pt;">, U.S.A., Land of Limitations" 16)</span><span style="background-color: #073763; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Even though the will to learn and work
hard is there the fact that College was not on the radar for these friends
meant that they more than likely will not succeed as well as the friends that
did go to College.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #073763; color: lime; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> The Second thing that really stood out when <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kristof</span> made it clear, "Remember
that disadvantage is less about income than environment."(<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kristof</span>, 21) This is huge because most people
are thinking about how wealthy someone is rather than what their upbringing
might be like. Having a happy, healthy, nurturing upbringing will help to
increase the likelihood that a person will succeed. Also this touches on the
type of home or neighborhood that a child grows up in. How children from better
neighborhoods are able to attain more because they are provided with more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #073763; color: lime; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: #073763;"> Finally bringing me to the point that I felt is most
important for us heading into a teaching profession. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kristof</span> mentioned an event that happened
with Rick; "IN the eighth grade, the principle punished Rick for skipping
school, by suspending him for six months."(<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kristof</span>,
11) He has previously said that Rick also struggled with an attention disorder.
This issue is all too common in schools today. Students with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">un</span>-diagnosed or misdiagnosed disorders
not being given the attention that they need in order to succeed in the
classrooms so the act out and just get punished rather than helped. When
children act out there is usually a reason behind it. In this case Rick did not
want to be in school, possibly because he did not have the correct guidance at
home to keep him there. His way of acting out was skipping school and rather
than finding a way to help Rick and keep him in school the principle did
possible the worst possible thing by suspending him for a HUGE period of time.
We need to work hard as future educators to not only teach other classes but
help students like Rick who could have had a better future with a little more
attention.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Derekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395470958826167292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476127112627947356.post-10942513552736770492016-09-12T19:52:00.000-07:002016-09-12T19:52:22.113-07:00A little about meI'll start my blog by telling everyone a little bit about who I am. I was born and raised in Rhode Island and would not want to live anywhere else. While Rhode Island is a great place to live, I love to travel the world and explore new things to make sure I am able to see and experience as much as possible in the time I have here. This was from my past summer when my friends and I went out to Lake Powell UT and stayed four days under the stars before heading to Las Vegas.<br />
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I also live for sports especially snowboarding football and soccer. Snowboarding is was a live to do. Winter time is by far my favorite time of the year with the snow, colder weather, and just fun that comes with it. This trip was up at Okemo Mountain in VT by far one of the greatest mountains in New England for riding.<br />
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All in all I feel like I'm just a regular guy who has had the fortune of being able to travel and pick up some hobbies that have really made life great. looking forward to traveling more this upcoming year and possibly flying out to snowboard in Colorado finally.</div>
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