http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/pakistan.woman.first.grader/index.html?iref=allsearch
I found this article to be very interesting. It is about a 25 year old woman from Pakistan who is a mother of three and decided she wanted to go to school since she never got the opportunity to. She goes to school with two of her children, who are 4 and 5 years old. She says she really enjoys it, even though she is much older than her fellow classmates. Her husband is one of her biggest supporters since Pakistan is a country where women's education was never really possible, due to cultural limitations.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
January 20th, 2010
In class today we watched a video on YouTube called RSA Animate- Changing Education Paradigms and it talked about how we are going to educate our children to take their place in the economy in 21st century. It was a pretty interesting 12 minute video and it had good visuals to support it. We also watched half of a video about a dog and an elephant that were best friends, than it cut out. She showed the video because she was about to have us go in our groups for our group projects. The topic my group got was "Student Diversity." I am with Stefani and Tori and we are going to start our project on Tuesday the 25th.
Teachers...grading parents?
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/24/teachers-grading-parents/?iref=allsearch
This article was short, but it seemed very interesting. It basically is saying that teachers in Florida schools will not just give students report cards, but also their parents. The parents won't be receiving A's or F's, they will be receiving "satisfactory", "needs improvement", or "unsatisfactory". Parents of the students will be graded on the communication they have with the teachers/school, the attendance of their child, and their child's academic performance. To me I have mixed feelings about this. Yes I agree that parents of the the students should be involved in their child's academics, but the fact that teachers are grading adults seems a little different. This is just more work for the teachers, and how do you really grade the parents on the child's academic performance? I understand involvement in school and their attendance. Overall a pretty interesting article.
This article was short, but it seemed very interesting. It basically is saying that teachers in Florida schools will not just give students report cards, but also their parents. The parents won't be receiving A's or F's, they will be receiving "satisfactory", "needs improvement", or "unsatisfactory". Parents of the students will be graded on the communication they have with the teachers/school, the attendance of their child, and their child's academic performance. To me I have mixed feelings about this. Yes I agree that parents of the the students should be involved in their child's academics, but the fact that teachers are grading adults seems a little different. This is just more work for the teachers, and how do you really grade the parents on the child's academic performance? I understand involvement in school and their attendance. Overall a pretty interesting article.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Freedom Writers Journal Response
Erin Gruwell just got a job at Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach, California as the English professor for the "not so great students." At first in her interview with the principal she is saying how she is going to make a difference and gives off the sense that she is going to do the traditional, standard way of teaching. The kids in her classroom come off as: rough, rugged street kids that don't seem to care about class. After the first day she realizes that will be no easy feat, being that there are so many different types of people with all sorts of different backgrounds in the classroom. All the kids different backgrounds makes them not get along with one another.
Once class period she decides to play the "line game" in which she asked a series of questions like: have you ever had a friend killed due to gang violence? She wanted to learn about the class, but she also wanted to show the class that everyone is facing the same problems as one another, race not being included. That same class period she gives every student a journal for them to write whatever they may be feeling, and to express themselves. She tells the students she doesn't have to read them if they don't feel comfortable and that if they want her to read them just to place their journal in a cabinet for her to read. She doesn't know if any of the students will turn in their journals, and they all end up turning them. As the year goes on the class goes on many field trips and starts to befriend one another and start to really trust Erin.
Erin returns for her second year at teaching class 203 and they read the Diary of Anne Frank and it changes the lives of the students including Eva since she is supposed to testify and is planning on lying under oath. She decides not to lie and faces her former gang to possibly kill her, but they decide against it. Erin's marriage to her husband finally wears and tears and they end up getting a divorce and she faces not coming back to teach her in her third year at Wilson High. She fights to come back and eventually does, coming back for the kids junior and senior years.
Erin kept the kids out of jail, kept them safe on the streets, and gave them a reason to live. The kids in the story were all from harsh backgrounds and had to do bad things just to live another day. Erin gave them hope. I realized no matter how hard the obstacle may be, you can never give up on something, or someone.
Once class period she decides to play the "line game" in which she asked a series of questions like: have you ever had a friend killed due to gang violence? She wanted to learn about the class, but she also wanted to show the class that everyone is facing the same problems as one another, race not being included. That same class period she gives every student a journal for them to write whatever they may be feeling, and to express themselves. She tells the students she doesn't have to read them if they don't feel comfortable and that if they want her to read them just to place their journal in a cabinet for her to read. She doesn't know if any of the students will turn in their journals, and they all end up turning them. As the year goes on the class goes on many field trips and starts to befriend one another and start to really trust Erin.
Erin returns for her second year at teaching class 203 and they read the Diary of Anne Frank and it changes the lives of the students including Eva since she is supposed to testify and is planning on lying under oath. She decides not to lie and faces her former gang to possibly kill her, but they decide against it. Erin's marriage to her husband finally wears and tears and they end up getting a divorce and she faces not coming back to teach her in her third year at Wilson High. She fights to come back and eventually does, coming back for the kids junior and senior years.
Erin kept the kids out of jail, kept them safe on the streets, and gave them a reason to live. The kids in the story were all from harsh backgrounds and had to do bad things just to live another day. Erin gave them hope. I realized no matter how hard the obstacle may be, you can never give up on something, or someone.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Response to article
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=900178
This article doesn't give a lot of information about the "new ways" for people to become teachers but there are some things that cross my mind like: how easy will it for people to become licensed teachers in these "new ways"?, Is this an efficient enough way for people to become teachers, while other people are coming out of college with degrees in teaching? I guess there isn't enough information on this article for me to give a large enough response, but after reading this article I definately have a few questions that I would like to know the answers to.
This article doesn't give a lot of information about the "new ways" for people to become teachers but there are some things that cross my mind like: how easy will it for people to become licensed teachers in these "new ways"?, Is this an efficient enough way for people to become teachers, while other people are coming out of college with degrees in teaching? I guess there isn't enough information on this article for me to give a large enough response, but after reading this article I definately have a few questions that I would like to know the answers to.
Why do I want to become a teacher?
I want to become a special education teacher because ever since I was younger I have always had someone in my life who had special needs. Growing up my next door neighbor and close friend Marshall had autism, and I would play with him almost every day, I had to learn at a very young age about his condtition and how to communicate with him in ways that was easy for him to understand without his anger getting the best of him. In Junior High and throughout High School I developed a very good relationship with a boy named Eric. Eric has down syndrom and I had to understand that he has the developmental skills of someone much younger than he, so I had to talk to him in ways where he could understand. Ever since than I developed a interest in special education, and a few years ago I decided it is what I wanted to do when I'm older.
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