my first day of teaching and i choked!!
i bombed it!!!! i did the things i said teachers shouldnt do... i turned mah bacc to the students to frequently.... i was confusing the students more than teachin them... students didnt learn anything they onlii learned that i am going to be a badd teacher... i cant believe myself!!! the teacher even gave me a bad no worse review!!! i am soo embarrassed!!! how can a teacher have bad public speaking skills??!?!??!
Talking Points #6
Author:
Tracking: Why Schools Need to Take Another Route
Author's Argument:
Jeanine Oakes argues that students should not be grouped together according to learning abilities or physical capabilities. If disadvantages students are placed separately from the advantaged students then when confronted by one another, awkwardness and ignorance will come into play...
Quote #1:
"...tracking leads to substantial differences in the day-today learning experiences students have at school."
One thing is for sure, if students are grouped according to abilities and disabilities then obviously the students whom are disabled will have a less "rich" schooling experience. This means that because I was in a wheelchair I would be placed with students that might be autistic or students with down syndrome just because my legs do not work... That means if my teacher could not handle all his or her students, I would miss out on my academics because she or he was busy disciplining the students.
Quote #2:
"In low- abilities classes, for example, teachers seem to be less encouraging and more punitive, placing more emphasis on discipline and behavior and less on academic learning."
I just finished saying how teachers in a "low-ability" classes focus more on disciplining their children rather than teaching them about let us say... math, proper English and so on and so forth. Teachers in a "high-ability" classroom will focus more on their students performance academic wise. How well their students are doing academically.
Quote #3:
"If students of all abilities are to benefit from being taught together, classrooms will probably need to be organized far differently, providing a diversity of tasks of interactions with few "public" comparisons of students' ability."
This is not entirely true. The only thing that might need to be altered is the pace that the teacher teaches. Math can still be taught regularly so can English and Science and what not.
Questions/Comments:
Tracking is ridiculous. I totally agree with Oakes on this. However, this is also like is the segregation does not stop the smart will continue to get smarter and the less educated will remain less educated... Good one!
Tracking: Why Schools Need to Take Another Route
Author's Argument:
Jeanine Oakes argues that students should not be grouped together according to learning abilities or physical capabilities. If disadvantages students are placed separately from the advantaged students then when confronted by one another, awkwardness and ignorance will come into play...
Quote #1:
"...tracking leads to substantial differences in the day-today learning experiences students have at school."
One thing is for sure, if students are grouped according to abilities and disabilities then obviously the students whom are disabled will have a less "rich" schooling experience. This means that because I was in a wheelchair I would be placed with students that might be autistic or students with down syndrome just because my legs do not work... That means if my teacher could not handle all his or her students, I would miss out on my academics because she or he was busy disciplining the students.
Quote #2:
"In low- abilities classes, for example, teachers seem to be less encouraging and more punitive, placing more emphasis on discipline and behavior and less on academic learning."
I just finished saying how teachers in a "low-ability" classes focus more on disciplining their children rather than teaching them about let us say... math, proper English and so on and so forth. Teachers in a "high-ability" classroom will focus more on their students performance academic wise. How well their students are doing academically.
Quote #3:
"If students of all abilities are to benefit from being taught together, classrooms will probably need to be organized far differently, providing a diversity of tasks of interactions with few "public" comparisons of students' ability."
This is not entirely true. The only thing that might need to be altered is the pace that the teacher teaches. Math can still be taught regularly so can English and Science and what not.
Questions/Comments:
Tracking is ridiculous. I totally agree with Oakes on this. However, this is also like is the segregation does not stop the smart will continue to get smarter and the less educated will remain less educated... Good one!
Talking Points #10
Author:
Allan G Johnson
Name of Text:
Privilege, Power, and Difference : What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution
Author's Argument:
Johnson argues that in order to fight oppressions, one must learn to "Acknowledge That the Trouble Exists", "Pay Attention", "Do Something"...
Quote #1:
"Large numbers of people have sat on the sidelines and seen themsselves as neither part of the problem nor the soultion. Beyond this shared trait however, ...people who know inequitues exist and want to be part of the
solution. Their silence and invisibility allow the trouble to continue. Removing what silences them and stands in their way can tap enormous potential of energy for change."
See! Some people might not want to come out because they don't feel like they need to whereas others are afraid for their lives therefore remain "in the closet". I totally know what Johnson is trying to say though. If at least one person can say it then it gives others assurance and they begin to come out one by one. Homosexuality is like let's say another race. We have Black, White, Asian, Latino, European [did i cover everything?] and... then there are Homosexuals. Being a Homo is ok. Some Heterosexual may think it is disgusting to fall in love with someone of the same sex, but have those people ever thought about it in the position of a homo? Homosexuals might think it is disgusting to like be in love with someone of the opposite sex, but they sure dont make a big deal out of it. Being gay is also like being left handed. A majority of the world are right handed so the handful that are left handed gets mistreated too for being "different" or "out of the ordinary"? Ridiculous i tell you RIDICULOUS! I think it is only America though. In most of the Asian countries and other countries i hear about gayness is ok.
Quote #2:
"The greatest barrier to change is that the dominat groups don't see the trouble as thier trouble, which means they don't feel obliged to do something about it."
I don't think this is true at all. I know plenty of straight people fighting for gay rights not only because they know gay people but also because everyone desrves equal rights regardless of age, ethnicity, sexuality and all of its relevance! Some of the straight people fight harder than those that are gay. it is almost like blacks or hispanics even asians trying to fight for equal rights. Im going to picc one and make up an example... let's say blaccs. OK. Blaccs are fighting to try to get equal education and treatment as would anyone else that isnt blacc. We have the blaccs that are quite serious about the fight and we have those that are in the fight because they feel obligated to or was forced into it. Then we have people of other races lets say for instance white... I know this one professor her husband is blacc and when i had to do like an orientation about racism after i was admitted into the school... i remember her lecture about how she was white and her husband is blacc and she always saw the mistreatment her husband recieved from the public and she would fight for equality more than some blacc people i know. Some people dont even like care. Like the n***** word... that is a rascist term and i seem to fight people about using that word more than i see blacc people do. Some blacc people are so ignorant when it comes to matters like fighting for equal rights and not just blacc every race. Like oh i could use the word n***** cuz im blacc... not true thats like promoting rascism...
Quote #3:
"If you don't make a point of studying history,...you find racial oppression has been a feature of human life for only a matter of centuries..."
I remember in history class how we focused on Athenians. There was one class lecture that i remember a little. She was telling the class how gayness was ok. And how even married men would go would get tired of women and look for pleasure from other men. And for some reason i somehow think one if not more of our presidents are gay...
Questions/Comments:
I don't understand why people can't accept it... "minorities": gay, blacc, asian, hispanic... why is it so difficult to be open minded about it all? Although i don't see racism, predjudice and wat not i know its all around me... butt i still feel ignorant about it because i am not confronted wit any of it so how do i kno how to act or respond when it does come slap on the face? I am not saying i want to get hated on because of mah ethnicity, sexual preferences or whatever im jus saying i don't even know anyone that has ever been a victim of hatred due to the person's baccground or preferences personally. Like I kno gay people, transgender or transexuals butt it was so open and accepted that when i come out to the real world i dont understand why it cant be accepted... Like look around... most of the people on the streets begging for m oney for survival... guaranteed they arent gay! so if gay people arent bringing down the reputation of the country then why not give em a chance huh? i jus dont get it
Allan G Johnson
Name of Text:
Privilege, Power, and Difference : What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution
Author's Argument:
Johnson argues that in order to fight oppressions, one must learn to "Acknowledge That the Trouble Exists", "Pay Attention", "Do Something"...
Quote #1:
"Large numbers of people have sat on the sidelines and seen themsselves as neither part of the problem nor the soultion. Beyond this shared trait however, ...people who know inequitues exist and want to be part of the
solution. Their silence and invisibility allow the trouble to continue. Removing what silences them and stands in their way can tap enormous potential of energy for change."
See! Some people might not want to come out because they don't feel like they need to whereas others are afraid for their lives therefore remain "in the closet". I totally know what Johnson is trying to say though. If at least one person can say it then it gives others assurance and they begin to come out one by one. Homosexuality is like let's say another race. We have Black, White, Asian, Latino, European [did i cover everything?] and... then there are Homosexuals. Being a Homo is ok. Some Heterosexual may think it is disgusting to fall in love with someone of the same sex, but have those people ever thought about it in the position of a homo? Homosexuals might think it is disgusting to like be in love with someone of the opposite sex, but they sure dont make a big deal out of it. Being gay is also like being left handed. A majority of the world are right handed so the handful that are left handed gets mistreated too for being "different" or "out of the ordinary"? Ridiculous i tell you RIDICULOUS! I think it is only America though. In most of the Asian countries and other countries i hear about gayness is ok.
Quote #2:
"The greatest barrier to change is that the dominat groups don't see the trouble as thier trouble, which means they don't feel obliged to do something about it."
I don't think this is true at all. I know plenty of straight people fighting for gay rights not only because they know gay people but also because everyone desrves equal rights regardless of age, ethnicity, sexuality and all of its relevance! Some of the straight people fight harder than those that are gay. it is almost like blacks or hispanics even asians trying to fight for equal rights. Im going to picc one and make up an example... let's say blaccs. OK. Blaccs are fighting to try to get equal education and treatment as would anyone else that isnt blacc. We have the blaccs that are quite serious about the fight and we have those that are in the fight because they feel obligated to or was forced into it. Then we have people of other races lets say for instance white... I know this one professor her husband is blacc and when i had to do like an orientation about racism after i was admitted into the school... i remember her lecture about how she was white and her husband is blacc and she always saw the mistreatment her husband recieved from the public and she would fight for equality more than some blacc people i know. Some people dont even like care. Like the n***** word... that is a rascist term and i seem to fight people about using that word more than i see blacc people do. Some blacc people are so ignorant when it comes to matters like fighting for equal rights and not just blacc every race. Like oh i could use the word n***** cuz im blacc... not true thats like promoting rascism...
Quote #3:
"If you don't make a point of studying history,...you find racial oppression has been a feature of human life for only a matter of centuries..."
I remember in history class how we focused on Athenians. There was one class lecture that i remember a little. She was telling the class how gayness was ok. And how even married men would go would get tired of women and look for pleasure from other men. And for some reason i somehow think one if not more of our presidents are gay...
Questions/Comments:
I don't understand why people can't accept it... "minorities": gay, blacc, asian, hispanic... why is it so difficult to be open minded about it all? Although i don't see racism, predjudice and wat not i know its all around me... butt i still feel ignorant about it because i am not confronted wit any of it so how do i kno how to act or respond when it does come slap on the face? I am not saying i want to get hated on because of mah ethnicity, sexual preferences or whatever im jus saying i don't even know anyone that has ever been a victim of hatred due to the person's baccground or preferences personally. Like I kno gay people, transgender or transexuals butt it was so open and accepted that when i come out to the real world i dont understand why it cant be accepted... Like look around... most of the people on the streets begging for m oney for survival... guaranteed they arent gay! so if gay people arent bringing down the reputation of the country then why not give em a chance huh? i jus dont get it
Talking Points #8
Name of Author:
Christopher Kliewer
Name of Article:
“Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome”
Author’s Argument:
Honestly, I really don't know what the author's point is. I read it, I wrote about what I read, but I still don't know the author's point. I could be offered a million dollars, I still would not know it. I know that this will get points subtracted but... all I have to say is, I tried...
Quote #1:
Success in life requires an ability to form relationships with others who make up the web of the community. Though many of us have a certain level of control over who we meet and interact with, none of us can come close to claiming complete control. So we must learn to work with others, and this holds true... We have got to learn to get along as individuals and as citizens.
First things first, just because we live in America, that does not mean we are all citizens. =] Secondly, this quote is so right! Although we get to chose whom we want to speak with, but we cannot control whom we see. I just thought that it was cool that someone actually pointed this out, I never really took the time to realize this. I know alot of people, whom are like me: if the person(s) do not say hi to me first then I will not say hi either. In the end, no one says hi and we claim the other person needs and attitude adjustment. This happen to me on a daily basis. For me however, I have an excuse... I cannot see far. The other people do not. Author is right, we need to all grow up and not worry about feeling stupid about saying hi to the other person and worry about the other person response. Because then at least you can say, "Hey, I tried. So and so chose to ignore me so you know what I don't care!" People need to like grow up and stop caring about what people think of 'em.
Quote #2:
...the acceptance and respect accorded severely disabled and nondisabled people...these relationships include: (1) the attribution of thinking to one another; (2) the ability to see one another's individuality; (3) the ability to view the relationship as reciprocally valuable; and (4) the attribution of a valued social place for one another....critical to establishing a recognition of citizenship for students with Down syndrome in schools...
See, this quote here... alot is being said. I know for a fact that it is very important, but I like don't understand anything being stated here. "...the ability to see each other's individuality..." That is what I was saying earlier no? We need to start seeing beyond being Asian, beyond being Caucasian beyond being Black... wait nevermind that does not make sense lol... okaii let us start over... no... I think I am on the right track... people tend to intentionally or not, look at other people and judge. "Okaii, your Asian, automatically we know you know kung-fu." or "Hey! you are Hispanic you like rice and beans huh?!" and even "All black people can sing and dance." Like for real?! Don't let racial stereotypes get into the way of you growing up and maturing... becoming more aware of the rights and the wrongs. Just because someone has a disability, that does not and should not automatically mean that that person is incapable of other things. Like me, let us use me as an example. I think I have ADD, but look at me, I can eat, talk, sleep...well not realliii, walk like everyone else... the only thiing that makes me different from a majority of the world is that I get distracted easily and it is very VERY hard for me to focus on one thing. Like, when I was driving last weekend, I almost got into two accidents because I was distracted. That does not mean I am incapable of thinking, of writing, reading, of learning and anything related. I do it slower, but I can still do it...
Quote #3:
"Don't think," she told me, "that those special needs kids drain anything. That class would not be half of what it is if any one of those kids got segregated. We're all together in there."
Now correct me if I am wrong, but she is totally right! Without the the kids that are "disadvantaged" people would not really know what to say and what not to say... how to act when confronted by such matters and what not. Like, how would you know how to refer to a gay person if a gay person does not come out and tell you. How would you know that there are four categories regarding blacks: African-American, Black, Caribbean, and African. How would you know that Asian consists of more than just Chinese... How would you know that the right way of referring to a person with a disability is like for example... "The blind person," WRONG! The correct way of saying this sentence is, "The person is blind." Why you ask... because if you say the blind person is like using blind as like the only thing that the person is. Nothing else. That is not the case. Just because he or she is blind does not mean he or she is incapable of doing anything else. By using the second sentence, blind is only one adjective to describe the person... get me? So by sitting in the same class together and having these discussions, you learn things you did not know before and you become less ignorant on such matters... did I lose you lol... okaii moving on
Comments/Questions:
Professor, this was soo long!!! But I have to say that I did get much of this article. Unless I responded wrong then I take everything back lol. But for the most part, it was pretty easy to relate to and to talk about, hopefully I followed the assignment.
Christopher Kliewer
Name of Article:
“Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome”
Author’s Argument:
Honestly, I really don't know what the author's point is. I read it, I wrote about what I read, but I still don't know the author's point. I could be offered a million dollars, I still would not know it. I know that this will get points subtracted but... all I have to say is, I tried...
Quote #1:
Success in life requires an ability to form relationships with others who make up the web of the community. Though many of us have a certain level of control over who we meet and interact with, none of us can come close to claiming complete control. So we must learn to work with others, and this holds true... We have got to learn to get along as individuals and as citizens.
First things first, just because we live in America, that does not mean we are all citizens. =] Secondly, this quote is so right! Although we get to chose whom we want to speak with, but we cannot control whom we see. I just thought that it was cool that someone actually pointed this out, I never really took the time to realize this. I know alot of people, whom are like me: if the person(s) do not say hi to me first then I will not say hi either. In the end, no one says hi and we claim the other person needs and attitude adjustment. This happen to me on a daily basis. For me however, I have an excuse... I cannot see far. The other people do not. Author is right, we need to all grow up and not worry about feeling stupid about saying hi to the other person and worry about the other person response. Because then at least you can say, "Hey, I tried. So and so chose to ignore me so you know what I don't care!" People need to like grow up and stop caring about what people think of 'em.
Quote #2:
...the acceptance and respect accorded severely disabled and nondisabled people...these relationships include: (1) the attribution of thinking to one another; (2) the ability to see one another's individuality; (3) the ability to view the relationship as reciprocally valuable; and (4) the attribution of a valued social place for one another....critical to establishing a recognition of citizenship for students with Down syndrome in schools...
See, this quote here... alot is being said. I know for a fact that it is very important, but I like don't understand anything being stated here. "...the ability to see each other's individuality..." That is what I was saying earlier no? We need to start seeing beyond being Asian, beyond being Caucasian beyond being Black... wait nevermind that does not make sense lol... okaii let us start over... no... I think I am on the right track... people tend to intentionally or not, look at other people and judge. "Okaii, your Asian, automatically we know you know kung-fu." or "Hey! you are Hispanic you like rice and beans huh?!" and even "All black people can sing and dance." Like for real?! Don't let racial stereotypes get into the way of you growing up and maturing... becoming more aware of the rights and the wrongs. Just because someone has a disability, that does not and should not automatically mean that that person is incapable of other things. Like me, let us use me as an example. I think I have ADD, but look at me, I can eat, talk, sleep...well not realliii, walk like everyone else... the only thiing that makes me different from a majority of the world is that I get distracted easily and it is very VERY hard for me to focus on one thing. Like, when I was driving last weekend, I almost got into two accidents because I was distracted. That does not mean I am incapable of thinking, of writing, reading, of learning and anything related. I do it slower, but I can still do it...
Quote #3:
"Don't think," she told me, "that those special needs kids drain anything. That class would not be half of what it is if any one of those kids got segregated. We're all together in there."
Now correct me if I am wrong, but she is totally right! Without the the kids that are "disadvantaged" people would not really know what to say and what not to say... how to act when confronted by such matters and what not. Like, how would you know how to refer to a gay person if a gay person does not come out and tell you. How would you know that there are four categories regarding blacks: African-American, Black, Caribbean, and African. How would you know that Asian consists of more than just Chinese... How would you know that the right way of referring to a person with a disability is like for example... "The blind person," WRONG! The correct way of saying this sentence is, "The person is blind." Why you ask... because if you say the blind person is like using blind as like the only thing that the person is. Nothing else. That is not the case. Just because he or she is blind does not mean he or she is incapable of doing anything else. By using the second sentence, blind is only one adjective to describe the person... get me? So by sitting in the same class together and having these discussions, you learn things you did not know before and you become less ignorant on such matters... did I lose you lol... okaii moving on
Comments/Questions:
Professor, this was soo long!!! But I have to say that I did get much of this article. Unless I responded wrong then I take everything back lol. But for the most part, it was pretty easy to relate to and to talk about, hopefully I followed the assignment.
Talking Points #7
Author:
Charles Lawrence
Title:
“One More River to Cross” –
Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown: A Prerequisite to Shaping New Remedies
Author’s Argument:
I think Lawrence is trying to argue that if people understand segregation better then chances of finding a solution will increase.
Quote #1:
“It is time to evaluate the success of Brown v. Board of Education with the hindsight of a quarter of a century of history.”
Now the first thing I saw when I read the article minus the author and title and what not, I noticed, “Brown v. Board of Education”. This struck me as odd because I remember the professor and the class mentioning it, but I do not remember what was said. So I am like oh no! Therefore, I had to choices from there: continue reading and hope that the article will mention more about it than just the name or I could go look it up and see if I can become less ignorant on the issue. So I decided to research it and I saw that black children were denied by America to have equal education? Now, by this point I am like fuming upset. Which also left me wondering… who was the president during this time period? Not my idol T.J. right?
Quote #2:
“A second and related aspect of the court’s misunderstanding of the segregation is demonstrated… discriminatory actions of the state authorities.”
This quote reminded me of what was said in my INST class. The professor was telling the class just the other day how “teachers don’t break rules, they only bend them.” I do not know how this is related but as I was trying to understand this passage, her voice was the only thing that was like lighting sparks. I guess it is related in a sense that laws can be extremely bent to a certain point because laws are so general. Like she used the copyright as an example. Teachers are not allowed to make copies and hand out to students. Everyone is allowed only one copy; therefore, teachers play it smart and require the students to go make their own copies. See? No law was broken… just bent a little. Am I wrong to continue to think that these two stories are related?
Quote #3:
“Perhaps the most detrimental effect on the court’s refusal to acknowledge the true nature and scope of segregation has been the resulting failure of …the public at large…”
Now, I do not know if I am understanding this correctly…Lawrence wants to place blame on whom now? The public? I can actually agree with this. I highly doubt that laws are the reasons why people are so racist. People cause their own problems when it comes to racism. Before the Emancipation Proclamation, people chose whether or not they wanted slaves… that was their decision, not the state! On the bus before Rosa Parks, people of different race was separated… was it because they felt like they had to get up when a white person enters the bus and offer that person their seat? Or did somewhere in the book of laws state that a colored person has to get up and give up his or her seat when a white person enters the bus? I seem to not be able to grasp this concept. People choose to be racist. Some are unaware that they are being racist while others know it but chooses to continue to do so. Like the n word. People that are heard using the term are frequently corrected. Like in my high school. Kids would walk around using the term freely until a teacher hears them and asks them kindly not to use the word, a majority of the students replies back, “I am black, I am allowed to use the word N****.” For real? I do not like the term either so when I hear it, I ask politely that the person not use the word… and this person will snap at me saying that I should not get offended because I am Asian. Then we go off into a little debate about it and I ultimately lose the debate so I just ask them kindly to at least not use the word in my presence. That word I keep as a swear and so I tell everyone not to swear around me and most people respect that and apologize and tries.
Comments:
I do not think I will pass this course with the grade requirement. I feel like I am struggling with the reading comprehension and there is no way I can work around that. The most important part of class is reading the articles and talking about it. We have a month left I just hope that the other articles are easy read like the one with the princess movies and what not. Omgeesh! I am going to fail!
Charles Lawrence
Title:
“One More River to Cross” –
Recognizing the Real Injury in Brown: A Prerequisite to Shaping New Remedies
Author’s Argument:
I think Lawrence is trying to argue that if people understand segregation better then chances of finding a solution will increase.
Quote #1:
“It is time to evaluate the success of Brown v. Board of Education with the hindsight of a quarter of a century of history.”
Now the first thing I saw when I read the article minus the author and title and what not, I noticed, “Brown v. Board of Education”. This struck me as odd because I remember the professor and the class mentioning it, but I do not remember what was said. So I am like oh no! Therefore, I had to choices from there: continue reading and hope that the article will mention more about it than just the name or I could go look it up and see if I can become less ignorant on the issue. So I decided to research it and I saw that black children were denied by America to have equal education? Now, by this point I am like fuming upset. Which also left me wondering… who was the president during this time period? Not my idol T.J. right?
Quote #2:
“A second and related aspect of the court’s misunderstanding of the segregation is demonstrated… discriminatory actions of the state authorities.”
This quote reminded me of what was said in my INST class. The professor was telling the class just the other day how “teachers don’t break rules, they only bend them.” I do not know how this is related but as I was trying to understand this passage, her voice was the only thing that was like lighting sparks. I guess it is related in a sense that laws can be extremely bent to a certain point because laws are so general. Like she used the copyright as an example. Teachers are not allowed to make copies and hand out to students. Everyone is allowed only one copy; therefore, teachers play it smart and require the students to go make their own copies. See? No law was broken… just bent a little. Am I wrong to continue to think that these two stories are related?
Quote #3:
“Perhaps the most detrimental effect on the court’s refusal to acknowledge the true nature and scope of segregation has been the resulting failure of …the public at large…”
Now, I do not know if I am understanding this correctly…Lawrence wants to place blame on whom now? The public? I can actually agree with this. I highly doubt that laws are the reasons why people are so racist. People cause their own problems when it comes to racism. Before the Emancipation Proclamation, people chose whether or not they wanted slaves… that was their decision, not the state! On the bus before Rosa Parks, people of different race was separated… was it because they felt like they had to get up when a white person enters the bus and offer that person their seat? Or did somewhere in the book of laws state that a colored person has to get up and give up his or her seat when a white person enters the bus? I seem to not be able to grasp this concept. People choose to be racist. Some are unaware that they are being racist while others know it but chooses to continue to do so. Like the n word. People that are heard using the term are frequently corrected. Like in my high school. Kids would walk around using the term freely until a teacher hears them and asks them kindly not to use the word, a majority of the students replies back, “I am black, I am allowed to use the word N****.” For real? I do not like the term either so when I hear it, I ask politely that the person not use the word… and this person will snap at me saying that I should not get offended because I am Asian. Then we go off into a little debate about it and I ultimately lose the debate so I just ask them kindly to at least not use the word in my presence. That word I keep as a swear and so I tell everyone not to swear around me and most people respect that and apologize and tries.
Comments:
I do not think I will pass this course with the grade requirement. I feel like I am struggling with the reading comprehension and there is no way I can work around that. The most important part of class is reading the articles and talking about it. We have a month left I just hope that the other articles are easy read like the one with the princess movies and what not. Omgeesh! I am going to fail!
lmao!
tell me why i be gettin readii to post mah blogs then something alwaysz comesz up and wow your gonna laugh instead of posting it like a normal person i save it as a draft! no wonder none of mah blogsz show up im like am i doin something wrong? durr loser! ugh who does that...well apparently me butt minus me... geesh i really think imma fail the INST course wow so glad i chose to take the class and jump str8 to the exam... a call worth all the money from the state lol not funny anymore cuz i wont be gettn as much grantsz and scholarshipsz anymore huyy...life is soo hard oh wellsz so mah SL thiingy is tomorro...well technically todaii which i shoule be sleepn butt funny thing is im not... ionooo is this wat you call insane/insomnia lol cuz i am i think i am crayzee... guess that makesz up cuz you kno... imma how you sayy... BEAUTIFUL gurl so gyea cant have everything rite... guess i got looksz and not smartsz lotta pplsz into brainsz now and not looksz and itsz hard cuz im tryna look smart and be smart butt when i open mah mouth i alwaysz say something crayzee for some reason and ppl look at me like im crayzee... well there ya go ppl... now ya kno i am crayzee ahhahaha wow im so kewlsz...itsz funny how i strive to feel prettii as a gurl ... butt like im still a tomboii at heart... like i cant shake the feeling of peepn well not peepn wow pervert lmao nah like checcn out gurlsz and oh mah gosh i like shoppn for guysz clothesz more than gurlsz clothesz minus panties lmao i am a collector hahaha i collect pantiesz wow thatsz mah deepest darkest secret now you all kno lmao omgeesh i jus realized itsz halloween HAPPY HALLOWEEN pplsz!! nah im not drunk im sober jus exhausted butt cant sleep ionoo guess im worried bout mah gradesz and where imma go wit mah life... pplsz alwaysz think about the present butt i like try to map out mah life not like oh imma get married here and kidsz then nah like mah college career i map it out take these coursesz now and those coursesz l8r and if all goes well then imma graduate jus in time as i claim l8 butt heyy not by much... like im so busy right now wit everything that is goin on in mah life i have no time to study like this whole time i am witing this for nada i could be reading the next article and BAM next thiing ya kno im knocced out and i still get nada done wow i have such a blank blank life lol lost of wordsz dag mah bacc itchesz lol ouch scratched it too hard lmao so like yesterday the 30th was mah dad 52nd birthday so mah younger sis tried to make him feel better by sayn dad todaii you can be 25 okaii and he said wat im not 52 im onloii 27 lmao! i was like wow dad then mom gonna get thrown in jail lmao wow mom'sz onlii like 37 imagine... itsz funny how they found each other lmao everytime they talk about their love story we alwaysz laugh like the whole family... when we have a family dinner well used to... all of us everyone in the house during dinner time b/c that is the onlii time we actually are altogether in one place... like we would stop wat we are doing and jus go eat and chat away... and the gurlsz would go help mother cook cuz we are gurlsz ya kno we needa learn to cook while we still young ya kno gurlsz can be layzee and cant be dirty and gotta kno how to cook...anywaysz gyea w/e we are doin: playin game, readin, homework or hangn outside wit friendsz when mother come home from work we give her half an hour to shower and clean up then all the gurlsz would like walk in one by one wash up and liek try to negotiate with mother on wat we wanna eat then she end up like nope sorry hunsz i bought this lol then we be like itsz okaii we can learn to make that and then your birthday come we gonna make that for you too eat okaii then she be like oh okaii then in that case letsz see wat we can do lmao i love mah mother so much! when i think of gewd timesz like these like i think of grandpa... i miss grandpaa mucho tooo ugh! grandpa went away too earlii... he didnt get to see us grow up and mature into these fine young laydeesz not to mention beautiful we have become... watsz more messed up is that im the onlii one that remembersz him minus the fact that i was his favorite also lol wanna include im gramma'sz favorite too plus the one rite after me butt she doesnt really count lol butt gyea grandpa and i had some gewd timesz some were scary butt love him regardless... idc who mah real grandpa is this is the one that looked after me this is the one i like mah name to be known as... like i like to tell people that mah name derived from grandpa even tho is sorta has a bad like meaning behind it i guess thatsz why i use ras more... i alwaysz introduce mahself as ross-knee... cuz thatsz hisz name Ross... ya kno... he soo cute... hey i jus realize grandpa and gramma age is almost the same as mom and dad... grandpa probable be like in his eightiesz and gramma onlii in her earlii sixtiesz wow like mother like daughter i guess thatsz why i was alwaysz attracted to older pplsz lol except in some cases no well no i dont ever see mahself dating anyone younger that me even by a month... i think it is crayzee... ionoo i cant deal like the furthest i gone wit someone well a guy younger than me was dance hehe thatsz a record... considerin how im so called high maintenance i dont think im that high maintenance...oh you kno wat i think imma call outta work tomorroo... i wont have the energy... nah they gonna think im horsing around cuz the holiday nvm imma jus have to succ it up and hope sunday i can sleep earlii well earlii to me is like one two... if i could sleep at twelve thatd be awesome butt seldom i can sleep before then... like there are daysz i be falling asleep at five then wake up at eight there was one time thisz semester i finally fell asleep at like seven and guess wat time i woke up...ya gott it eight wow... mah life is madd hectic rite now i reallyy cant fit in time to sleep butt everything im doin i think is worthwhile... except work... butt it comesz in handy sometimesz ugh hate work wit a passion ugh! like service learnin im scared to go because ionoo wat to expect butt once im there like omgeesh itsz two alreadii wow iighttsz peace lmao then i go home eat and guess wat... yuppsz work til like ten butt i dont get bacc to mah room til like twelve and freshn up and squeeze in some homework and next thing ya kno itsz like three or four and i try and try to sleep then when i finally sleep mah internal alarm wakesz me and say hunn... work callsz so i dont leave to work till eleven thirty butt i wouldbe readiii to go by like ten why dont i jus take that extra hour to sleep you wonder i cant i was raised not to sacrafice beauty for somethin as simple as laccc of sleep... wat i jus come to realize is that i need sleep in order to have energy to smile to look beautiful ya kno like recently like i swear i lost madd weight during the summer so i tried to gain it all bacc and itsz been a month i made gewd progress til now... losing it bacc again ugh! i aint doin anythin like im not exercising anymore or anythin like that i used to cuz i was tryna work mah bicepsz and tricepsz butt i realized that for strong armsz am i reallii willing to have callused handsz so i came to the conclusion that i rather have uncallused handsz than strong armsz... i mean cmon i went twenty yearsz w/o doin a single push up not to mention chin up why do i needa do it now rite... butt still the point i like struggle to fit into mah jeansz now and gosh that succsz to look at mahself and see this bony thing butt when i was bigger i used to be like dag im fat like esp mah love handlesz butt i look nicer fat than skinny like madd scrawny mah older sister would call me... like six outta seven of us are like naturally big and mah younger sister the one rite after me she is like the odd ball... she not that soft spoken butt compared to the six of us she is, she used to be the onlii one that doesnt have a booty not im included in that lmao she like prefer silver jewelry over gold so when like mom is tryna by jewelry she would have to go outta her way and get silver for her and hope that she fitsz it butt wit the gold if the person she bought it for doesnt fit it then mom gives it to someone that does fit it or she keepsz for herself... butt gyea there was one instant where we all had tmobile and she had at the time cingular and i like closed mah checcn wit citizen bank to have bank of america wit the family butt she kept citizen so gyea i guess she used to bein the oddball... her an i used to fight all the time cuz we both are how you say snakesz well she the snake on the ground and i am the air snake/ snake in the air (dragon) so we could never get along and now we like best friendsz we alwaysz help each other out and i sorta spoil her cuz im her older sister i feel like as her older sister i needa put her needsz in front of mine so i would say for instance she lives in weber i live in new hall i would walk her to weber then walk bacc to new hall at like one in the morn... itsz jus the smallest thiingsz that an older siblin do for the younger sibling that mattersz most... like we were alwaysz tight as a family butt when i be like oh i love you lil bro everyone in the house looksz at me like i jus swore so we more like show it thru our actionsz like as a kid we were raised like mom and dad alwaysz givin... constantly puttin other pplsz needsz in front of their own... like i remember one time at the airport in ny from cambodia we had to wait madd long and mother got cold so she went to buy a shirt...she sat bacc down got comfortable and everything and she fell asleep and i didnt haave a jaccet you see we came from cambodia and i thought you kno march would be kinda hott in america hot enough not to needa jacct so i decided to wear jus a tee shirt so at the airport i got cold lol and mother musta awoke and saw me all like wrapped in mah tee so she took hersz off and covered me wit it like it was big enough to be a blanket lol and when we were younger monksz alwaysz called dad to help out everywhere wit decor, performancesz, emcee, broken car taking them to shop w/e it was he was alwaysz there in a spilt second minus the fact that we used to live rite across the street from the temple butt gyea he was constantly giving up time wit his family to be of assistance to his community butt itsz not like he left his kidsz when we were not in school he would bring us along too and we would have nada to do so we would liek start walking around and cleanin up pickin up trash and wat not so our family was loved... when dad volunteered to teach the family to play the drumsz the monksz got together and put their moneysz together and ordered the drum set they paid for the drumsz the shipment the packagin and it came str8 from cambodia or thai one of them and they even paid for the uniform and the masks and true to his wordsz dad taught everyone of us to play it and durin ceremoniesz both big and small we would play and we became famous w/o realizin it lol liek we would squeeze by the crowd and they be like oh the drummersz are here the show bout to start lol recently wit mah hectic life i couldnt play wit them durin our ancestors ceremony butt when i squeezed by a crowd to give donationsz i was stoppped and asked if i was playn and im like nah i gotta work this year sadly... butt it was all gewd they managed w/o me... butt gyea itsz two... imma try to sleep ugh!so gyea nite... if you get to then end of this leave your name lol i wanna kno who actually didn get bored wit mah random thoughtsz and stopped followin after the second sentence lol... butt gyea if you did get this far all i can give you is a pat on the bacc lol nada else to offer butt thanksz for takn time outta your life to listen to me rant about mine... see thats the thiing wit charity and change... i think you donatin time outta your life to jus listen to me mattersz more than tellin me i needa learn to be more organized wit mah thoughtsz or i have too much goin on rite now i should drop a few thiingsz... these are thiingsz i wanna do thatsz why i decided to do them in the first place rite... change would be useless rite now butt the charity is very much appreciated b/c i feel like i talk alot butt noone is listening....
Talking Points #5
Title:
“In The Service Of What? The Politics of Service Learning”
Author:
Joesph Kahne and Joel Westheimer
Author’s Argument:
Kahne and Westheimer argues that
Quote#1:
"By finding and engaging in community service activities,... students would interact with those less fortunate than themselves and would experience the excitement and joy of learning while using the community as a classroom"
I find this quote not completely true. While we do get to work with those less fortunate and use the community as a classroom, service learning is more than that. Service learning provides us with an opportunity to search deep within ourselves and find our true values and beliefs: what we really enjoy and what we think we enjoy. In my own experience with service learning, I don't think the kids are less fortunate than I. We all have one thing in common and that is bilingualism. I personally think that no matter the class, the status, the sex anyone that speaks more that one language is awesome. Anyways back to the point, I not only help these kids, they help me improve my knowledge of working with students, how to explain something in an easy to understand way, what tone to use on which students and last but not least how to react in a given circumstance. Also, I don't think I get excited over learning alone, I think I get more excited just being in an environment where I have the power to make a difference.
Quote#2
"Educators who emphasize change would clearly also value the educational benefits of this approach. To tap into full power of service activities, however... This process can transform students' understandings of both disciplinary knowledge and the particular social issues with which they are engaged."
This sort of for some reason reminds me of the McCain and Obama project. Of course everyone wants change, but there are certain methods that needs to be approached in a certain manner, not by just saying we need change and in the end because of ignorance, everything becomes worse. I actually agree with this quote tho, for the first time ever I agree with a quote...anyways the point, service learning does transform students in an unexplainable way.
Quote#3
Comments:
Who am I kidding? I do not know what is going on... I read and reread and reread and I still cannot comprehend. Hopefully all this confusion can be clarified in class. Maybe because my readings kept getting interrupted by my customers... but still. Like the whole meaning of the article is hidden behind all these complicated words that I don't know how to understand... huyy
“In The Service Of What? The Politics of Service Learning”
Author:
Joesph Kahne and Joel Westheimer
Author’s Argument:
Kahne and Westheimer argues that
Quote#1:
"By finding and engaging in community service activities,... students would interact with those less fortunate than themselves and would experience the excitement and joy of learning while using the community as a classroom"
I find this quote not completely true. While we do get to work with those less fortunate and use the community as a classroom, service learning is more than that. Service learning provides us with an opportunity to search deep within ourselves and find our true values and beliefs: what we really enjoy and what we think we enjoy. In my own experience with service learning, I don't think the kids are less fortunate than I. We all have one thing in common and that is bilingualism. I personally think that no matter the class, the status, the sex anyone that speaks more that one language is awesome. Anyways back to the point, I not only help these kids, they help me improve my knowledge of working with students, how to explain something in an easy to understand way, what tone to use on which students and last but not least how to react in a given circumstance. Also, I don't think I get excited over learning alone, I think I get more excited just being in an environment where I have the power to make a difference.
Quote#2
"Educators who emphasize change would clearly also value the educational benefits of this approach. To tap into full power of service activities, however... This process can transform students' understandings of both disciplinary knowledge and the particular social issues with which they are engaged."
This sort of for some reason reminds me of the McCain and Obama project. Of course everyone wants change, but there are certain methods that needs to be approached in a certain manner, not by just saying we need change and in the end because of ignorance, everything becomes worse. I actually agree with this quote tho, for the first time ever I agree with a quote...anyways the point, service learning does transform students in an unexplainable way.
Quote#3
Comments:
Who am I kidding? I do not know what is going on... I read and reread and reread and I still cannot comprehend. Hopefully all this confusion can be clarified in class. Maybe because my readings kept getting interrupted by my customers... but still. Like the whole meaning of the article is hidden behind all these complicated words that I don't know how to understand... huyy
SL Project Day3
Friday I actually went during teacher's lunch period. The front doors were closed but not locked. I walked in and knew where I was heading without getting lost. I saw when I walked in a Halloween dance poster and i thought it was awesome. A nice social event for the kids. Although I am sick and afraid I might contaminate the the young kids, I could not see myself calling in and saying I could not make it. Th students expected me and I did not want to put them down because of a little headache and sinus pressure... I was able to drive so I was good. I did not want to disappoint the kids nor the teachers. It was kind of funny how I was forcing myself to get out of bed, but as soon as I thought about the kids, I practically jumped out of bed. Not like the weekends... I always find it hard to get out of bed. Work is not enough to motivate me to get out of bed =P. I am so proud of myself! I focused on about two kids that Ms. Caron pointed out before the class started and the one that actually tried really understood! I kept remminding him not to forget to retake the test. The other one kept calling me "miss" and I am like Whoa... it felt kind of weird for someone two-three years younger than I am to call me miss. This same boy, as I was leaving has asked me to sign him out. He is so funny. I think he has potential to get so far, but because of his "I dont't care" attitude, he gets zeroes and... he does not care... it upsets me to see such potential with such attitude. Makes me want to find something I can say or do to motivate him to try harder, but I know there is not much I can do. At least he comes to school I guess. That is a good start. Although he does not try as hard, for some strange reason when I look at him I feel like he is going to walk when it comes time... with honors or not...I just feel it is going to happen. And I am going to do everything in my power to make sure no one tells him otherwise. Today kids get influenced by the put downs and I want to make sure all the students are kept motivated and encouraged to go further with their lives and reach their full potential.
Talking Points #4
Title:
“Unlearning the myths that binds us”
Author:
Christensen and Karp
Author’s Argument:
In this article, I think Christensen is arguing that the cartoons that kids grow- up with and learn to love is give false information and misleading to the young minds. Christen also believe that this type of influence is bad for the children and the start of expectations that are not met.
Quote#1
-“The "secret education," as Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman dubs it, delivered by children's books and movies, instructs young people to accept the world as it is portrayed in these social blueprints.”
This quote is saying that children are learning about life through “children’s books and movies”, however I think otherwise. Just like the movie It’s Elementary”, young minds do not think much of situations like adults think they do. Children jus watch on and follow the story line. If no one mentions it, then the kids would not have noticed that all the princesses happen to be white and all the poor people happens to be black. So I definitely disagree with this comment.
Quote#2
-“Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be achieved through consumption -in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle.”
Again, I feel like sometimes people try so hard to look beyond what is really there and just start to assume things. Yes, kids try to look for the happily ever after, but after a certain age,, they grow out of that and realizes that a cartoon is not realistic. And by Christensen saying that “happily ever after” does not exist, that is sort of depressing because she sort of just shut down all hopes for kids living the princess life. I just have to say that there is such a thing as “happily ever after” and just because she has not found it yet does not mean she should tell other people that it does not exist.
Quote#3
-“But more importantly, students saw themselves as actors in the world. They were fueled by the opportunity to convince some parents of the long-lasting effects cartoons impose on 'their children, or to enlighten their peers about the roots of some of their insecurities. Instead of leaving students full of bile, standing around with their hands on their hips, shaking their heads about how bad the world is, I provided them the opportunity to make a difference.”
She keeps going! Does she really think she is giving them an “opportunity to make a difference” by pointing out that in children’s most favorite shows, there is racism and prejudice? What I think she is doing as an adolescent is beyond, excuse my language, stupid! All she is doing is making the children aware of it all. And after that, they will start to look for all the bias in society. They will start the new generation of hate towards white people because she said that cartoons favor white people so of course these children are going to look at white people and say, “You stole all my opportunity in life!”
Comments:
I think what she is trying to prove is wrong. I think she did the opposite of her intentions. If she just left it as is then these kids would have still modeled after the cartoons until they realize on their own time that turtles that speak and fight are not realistic. They will see that being bitten by a spider will not turn him or her into Spiderman or Spiderwoman… I think she should just get a life. Take me for example, I did not know about racism until I came to RIC. True, I learned about slavery and what not, but that did not hit me as racism. I understood it was whites hating black people for some reason I still do not understand, but I did not see society today like that. Then when I came to RIC, professors and some students started to mention that racism is happening to them. Why do I not see it? Maybe just maybe these students are looking beyond what the professor is trying to say and due to bias, just make the professor look bad by saying he or she was being racist.
“Unlearning the myths that binds us”
Author:
Christensen and Karp
Author’s Argument:
In this article, I think Christensen is arguing that the cartoons that kids grow- up with and learn to love is give false information and misleading to the young minds. Christen also believe that this type of influence is bad for the children and the start of expectations that are not met.
Quote#1
-“The "secret education," as Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman dubs it, delivered by children's books and movies, instructs young people to accept the world as it is portrayed in these social blueprints.”
This quote is saying that children are learning about life through “children’s books and movies”, however I think otherwise. Just like the movie It’s Elementary”, young minds do not think much of situations like adults think they do. Children jus watch on and follow the story line. If no one mentions it, then the kids would not have noticed that all the princesses happen to be white and all the poor people happens to be black. So I definitely disagree with this comment.
Quote#2
-“Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be achieved through consumption -in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle.”
Again, I feel like sometimes people try so hard to look beyond what is really there and just start to assume things. Yes, kids try to look for the happily ever after, but after a certain age,, they grow out of that and realizes that a cartoon is not realistic. And by Christensen saying that “happily ever after” does not exist, that is sort of depressing because she sort of just shut down all hopes for kids living the princess life. I just have to say that there is such a thing as “happily ever after” and just because she has not found it yet does not mean she should tell other people that it does not exist.
Quote#3
-“But more importantly, students saw themselves as actors in the world. They were fueled by the opportunity to convince some parents of the long-lasting effects cartoons impose on 'their children, or to enlighten their peers about the roots of some of their insecurities. Instead of leaving students full of bile, standing around with their hands on their hips, shaking their heads about how bad the world is, I provided them the opportunity to make a difference.”
She keeps going! Does she really think she is giving them an “opportunity to make a difference” by pointing out that in children’s most favorite shows, there is racism and prejudice? What I think she is doing as an adolescent is beyond, excuse my language, stupid! All she is doing is making the children aware of it all. And after that, they will start to look for all the bias in society. They will start the new generation of hate towards white people because she said that cartoons favor white people so of course these children are going to look at white people and say, “You stole all my opportunity in life!”
Comments:
I think what she is trying to prove is wrong. I think she did the opposite of her intentions. If she just left it as is then these kids would have still modeled after the cartoons until they realize on their own time that turtles that speak and fight are not realistic. They will see that being bitten by a spider will not turn him or her into Spiderman or Spiderwoman… I think she should just get a life. Take me for example, I did not know about racism until I came to RIC. True, I learned about slavery and what not, but that did not hit me as racism. I understood it was whites hating black people for some reason I still do not understand, but I did not see society today like that. Then when I came to RIC, professors and some students started to mention that racism is happening to them. Why do I not see it? Maybe just maybe these students are looking beyond what the professor is trying to say and due to bias, just make the professor look bad by saying he or she was being racist.
SL Project day2
I went kind of early. I arrived during Ms. Caron's free period and felt out of place just because she like did not have anything for me to do or like we were sort of talking, but not really conversing. However, I did get another classroom. I saw the room tag and was immediately interested and then Ms. Caron mentioned it then I was like sounds interesting so during her lunch, I went to talk to him and he immediately said that I could and that if ever I needed anything to not be afraid to ask. He gave me the class criteria and a rubric and a copy of the quiz he was giving his class. This second class is an Algebra I class. In this class, I felt more useful. I was able to help students out when they had questions whereas the geometry class rarely was I able to help. The geometry students are older and wiser I guess so there were very few students that needed help. In Mr. Elias class, there were several students that were pointed out as learners at a slow rate and these kids were not afraid to ask questions. My co-workers asked me why recently I have been very cheery and I just answered, "I found my motivation again!" I had lost it for a while so I was lost. It was much easier this time because I did not have to fly overseas to find the motivation I had first found when I was in Cambodia. I walked into the classrooms and looked at the students faces and I was like, “Wow! I did not make the wrong decision in choosing a career.” I know here will be bad days, but I am sure there are more good days than bad. As Mr. Elias (Algebra I teacher) was pointing out the students that needed help most, I looked at their faces and I just felt this feeling that cannot be described in words. Except for the few kids that kept whistling and making hand gestures telling me to call them and the constant looking at my body parts, I just love the school environment. School is where I belong. I always had a passion for school and these kids reminded me why I wanted to be a teacher in the first place. The vice principal that set me up in Ms. Caron’s class was busy meeting a parent so I did not see him. I did stop in to say hi and bye to the secretary ladies. I cannot wait to go back next week! I was there for two periods, which is a little less than two hours, but those two hours might have been the best two hours I spent in school this semester! It was funny how both classes had a quiz that day. In Ms. Caron’s class, the kids forgot that I was there like a second set of eyes and ears for Ms. Caron, they were whispering questions and answers, and I went to the table and cleared my throat and then the realized that I had some authority. Mr. Elias students were being helped by three adult figures. There was the teacher, a resource teacher and last but not least me… So we were walking and one girl raised her hand and Mr. Elias sort of waited for me to go to her and so I did and she asked me for the answer and I am looked at her and her answer to a prior question and I am like, “Hun, pay attention to the signs.” Then she put a negative sign in front of her wrong answer. It was so funny how she did not even notice her mistake. I did not blame her though because she was one of the students that were pointed out. So I asked her what a positive plus a negative comes out to. I told her to write it out which number, positive or negative is bigger. Then she finally got it. At that point, I did not realize he had made up different quizzes so when I went to help out another student I looked again I was like, “Oh snap! I just gave the girl the wrong answer!” So I went back to apologize and she just laughed and said that she does not mind. I felt so bad!
School Context paper
Rasni Hul
Dr. Lesley Bogad
FNED 346.05
October 05, 2008
Learning in a Diverse Community
The school that I am volunteering at is Hanley Vocational. However, the school is temporarily located in West Broadway Elementary while the Hanley building is still under construction. Upon arrival, the building door was open and I already knew where the main office was located so I walked right in and I did not see a secretary because she was busy making copies. Outside the main office about shoulder level, I noticed there was a few no smoking sign in Spanish. On the bulletin board adjacent to the office, right across the main doors is a “Welcome” sign and a space for students that made the honor roll. There are also motivational signs inspiring students to succeed and continue to higher education.
While interviewing the vice principal, we came to the conclusion that a majority of the population are Hispanic and Caucasian are the minority. There are approximately three hundred students and sixty percent are Hispanic, ten are Asian, twenty-five are black or African American or related (Haitian, Liberian, Nigeria, etc), and five percent are White. With the large Spanish population, however, there were little Spanish signs posted on the walls. There are notices that are sent home in other languages. “Important notices” such as testing dates, no school days and so on and so forth are sent home in Spanish if necessary and also Cambodian upon request. Although the diversity is great, the school only manages to be able to translate two languages.
The faculty consists of one black, and at least five are Hispanic and the rest are Caucasian. With only twenty staff and three hundred students, the school seems very handled and under control.
There are a handful of students that does not respect their teachers, but respect their principals so few problems are created. There are three levels of ESL classes: beginner, which is three hours a day, Intermediate that decreases to two hours a day, and lastly the advanced that, is only an hour a day. However, with the renovations, there are currently no ESL programs available and teachers speak strictly English. If interpreters are needed to speak with parents, the principal is Hispanic so he translates and the Cambodian teacher’s aide gets called in from Central. During my time there, I did not notice the students speaking any other language besides the English language, which surprised me. All the students speaks, writes, reads and understands the English language well.
The vice principal did mention segregation in the lunchroom. All the kids sat with other kids that were the same ethnicity. A student standing close by overheard and disagreed with the vice principal.
When Hanley gets finished next year, it will finally separate from Central and become it’s own school. About twelve hundred students are expected to occupy the school. New staff are going to be a must and interpreters as well.
Dr. Lesley Bogad
FNED 346.05
October 05, 2008
Learning in a Diverse Community
The school that I am volunteering at is Hanley Vocational. However, the school is temporarily located in West Broadway Elementary while the Hanley building is still under construction. Upon arrival, the building door was open and I already knew where the main office was located so I walked right in and I did not see a secretary because she was busy making copies. Outside the main office about shoulder level, I noticed there was a few no smoking sign in Spanish. On the bulletin board adjacent to the office, right across the main doors is a “Welcome” sign and a space for students that made the honor roll. There are also motivational signs inspiring students to succeed and continue to higher education.
While interviewing the vice principal, we came to the conclusion that a majority of the population are Hispanic and Caucasian are the minority. There are approximately three hundred students and sixty percent are Hispanic, ten are Asian, twenty-five are black or African American or related (Haitian, Liberian, Nigeria, etc), and five percent are White. With the large Spanish population, however, there were little Spanish signs posted on the walls. There are notices that are sent home in other languages. “Important notices” such as testing dates, no school days and so on and so forth are sent home in Spanish if necessary and also Cambodian upon request. Although the diversity is great, the school only manages to be able to translate two languages.
The faculty consists of one black, and at least five are Hispanic and the rest are Caucasian. With only twenty staff and three hundred students, the school seems very handled and under control.
There are a handful of students that does not respect their teachers, but respect their principals so few problems are created. There are three levels of ESL classes: beginner, which is three hours a day, Intermediate that decreases to two hours a day, and lastly the advanced that, is only an hour a day. However, with the renovations, there are currently no ESL programs available and teachers speak strictly English. If interpreters are needed to speak with parents, the principal is Hispanic so he translates and the Cambodian teacher’s aide gets called in from Central. During my time there, I did not notice the students speaking any other language besides the English language, which surprised me. All the students speaks, writes, reads and understands the English language well.
The vice principal did mention segregation in the lunchroom. All the kids sat with other kids that were the same ethnicity. A student standing close by overheard and disagreed with the vice principal.
When Hanley gets finished next year, it will finally separate from Central and become it’s own school. About twelve hundred students are expected to occupy the school. New staff are going to be a must and interpreters as well.
Service Learning Project day1
Omgeesh! I was there it was so awesome! Although I did keep getting hit on, whistled at, and winked at which startled and scared me a bit, but other than that omgeesh I can't wait to go bacc hopefully Wednesday... The kids were doing geometry bisecting angles and segments and what nots. It was so funny because there was one incident when a kid asked me how to bisect an angle and I'm like, "Ummm... gimme a sec." So, I went to checc out how to do it then as I left to find an answer to his question the teacher walked by and he asked her who I was and she told him that I am a college student and he gave a look like really then how come I don't know how to bisect an angle lmao! The teacher had warned me about one kid how he always acts up, but that whole time I was there he was quiet doing his work not lifting his head up unless he had a question... There was a girl that was the typical teenager. She had her phone out and I guess she was fidgeting with it so the teacher got upset and asked her to put it away so the girl got upset and rebelled by folding her arms and repeatedly rolling her eyes until the teacher finally asked me to escort her to the Principal's office. I met both the vice principal and the principal. The school I went to though was still under construction so a lot was going on at once, but the vice principal was able to tell me estimates of the diversity in the school between the faculty and staff and students. Got to say though... I miss the high school environment where everyone knows everyone and especially the student/teacher/principal relationship/connection... when students get upset they just go to their Principal's office and rant and the principal actually listens to them and act like a psychologist... and since teachers are with their students for like six seven months at a time, a bond gets created and a security/trusting feeling develops and sometimes a student could really use that secure/trust feeling, especially when the root of their problems are at home...wow LOOOOVVVEEEE IIIITTTTT!!!!
Talking Points #2
Name of author and text:
“Aria” by Richard Rodriguez
“Teaching Multilingual Children” by Virginia Collier
Author’s Argument:
Collier argues that when a teacher is faced with a student or students that English is not the primary language, then there are certain guidelines to follow so that the experience will be “enriching.”
Quotes:
-->> Guideline #5: “Do not forbid young students from code- switching in the classroom. Understand the functions that code- switching serves.”
I find this weirdly funny. My family and I do this like all the time. In Khmer, there is no present tense –ing. However, we would speak and out of nowhere we would make up a word like riding for example, would be said jees, but my family would say it jees-ing. Or sometimes as I mentioned in my earlier blogs how I tend not to know a word in English so I would try to say it in Khmer and have someone else try to translate. I would always get yelled by my peers for not having a more broad vocabulary especially when English is my first language. My teachers however, would not yell at me though when I start to stutter or start to try to charade my way and hope that the word would come to me even though it never does…
-->> Guideline #3: “Don’t teach a second language in any way that challenges or seeks to eliminate the first language.”
I find this quote contradictory to “Aria.” The nun went to tell Richard’s parents to start speaking English at home so the kids would become more proficient in it and ultimately losing the first language. I didn’t really understand what was going on in the article, but from what I understood, Richard and his family stopped speaking Spanish to each other altogether after English came to their family. I don’t want to blame anyone or anything for families falling apart, but I think it is safe for me to say that his family did lose family connection they once shared when they all had something in common: their language. I think it is true, when a family has nothing in common except for the language they speak, that can still be useful in starting a dinner conversation.
-->> “The key is the true appreciation of the different linguistic and cultural values that students bring into the classroom.”
We are always taught to speak English when we are in a classroom or when we are in public. When culture and language is truly appreciated in a classroom or anywhere for this matter, then one can finally feel special for being his or her true self. No one would be left out and everyone would be equal in a sense that no one person is more dominant in a classroom than the other.
All these quotes represent the article in a way that shows language is power. Just because the culture of power is being “S.W.A.A.M.P.,” there are things that are more powerful sometimes. Like on a resume being bilingual is a skill all employers look for so someone that is bilingual would most likely get a job compared to someone that isn’t bilingual…right?
Questions/Comments/Points to Share
I think it is very important to practice and know your culture and language. For instance, my younger sister barely practices her Khmer and my brother in lay doesn’t speak English so when they try to communicate it’s hard because they would argue and find people to translate and everyone would get upset because we know she can speak it she is just afraid of saying something incorrectly. We yell scold her all the time, if she doesn’t say it out loud then how will she know if she is saying it wrong. By speaking out loud, it gives her the opportunity to be corrected for future use. I think language is very important; maybe that is why I never felt like a minority. It want because I was “white-washed” it’s because I held my head up high and said, “I got something they don’t and that’s language!” I don't know that’s just me…
“Aria” by Richard Rodriguez
“Teaching Multilingual Children” by Virginia Collier
Author’s Argument:
Collier argues that when a teacher is faced with a student or students that English is not the primary language, then there are certain guidelines to follow so that the experience will be “enriching.”
Quotes:
-->> Guideline #5: “Do not forbid young students from code- switching in the classroom. Understand the functions that code- switching serves.”
I find this weirdly funny. My family and I do this like all the time. In Khmer, there is no present tense –ing. However, we would speak and out of nowhere we would make up a word like riding for example, would be said jees, but my family would say it jees-ing. Or sometimes as I mentioned in my earlier blogs how I tend not to know a word in English so I would try to say it in Khmer and have someone else try to translate. I would always get yelled by my peers for not having a more broad vocabulary especially when English is my first language. My teachers however, would not yell at me though when I start to stutter or start to try to charade my way and hope that the word would come to me even though it never does…
-->> Guideline #3: “Don’t teach a second language in any way that challenges or seeks to eliminate the first language.”
I find this quote contradictory to “Aria.” The nun went to tell Richard’s parents to start speaking English at home so the kids would become more proficient in it and ultimately losing the first language. I didn’t really understand what was going on in the article, but from what I understood, Richard and his family stopped speaking Spanish to each other altogether after English came to their family. I don’t want to blame anyone or anything for families falling apart, but I think it is safe for me to say that his family did lose family connection they once shared when they all had something in common: their language. I think it is true, when a family has nothing in common except for the language they speak, that can still be useful in starting a dinner conversation.
-->> “The key is the true appreciation of the different linguistic and cultural values that students bring into the classroom.”
We are always taught to speak English when we are in a classroom or when we are in public. When culture and language is truly appreciated in a classroom or anywhere for this matter, then one can finally feel special for being his or her true self. No one would be left out and everyone would be equal in a sense that no one person is more dominant in a classroom than the other.
All these quotes represent the article in a way that shows language is power. Just because the culture of power is being “S.W.A.A.M.P.,” there are things that are more powerful sometimes. Like on a resume being bilingual is a skill all employers look for so someone that is bilingual would most likely get a job compared to someone that isn’t bilingual…right?
Questions/Comments/Points to Share
I think it is very important to practice and know your culture and language. For instance, my younger sister barely practices her Khmer and my brother in lay doesn’t speak English so when they try to communicate it’s hard because they would argue and find people to translate and everyone would get upset because we know she can speak it she is just afraid of saying something incorrectly. We yell scold her all the time, if she doesn’t say it out loud then how will she know if she is saying it wrong. By speaking out loud, it gives her the opportunity to be corrected for future use. I think language is very important; maybe that is why I never felt like a minority. It want because I was “white-washed” it’s because I held my head up high and said, “I got something they don’t and that’s language!” I don't know that’s just me…
sometimesz...
sometimes, the smallest things make a difference... for example, when you see a person out on the streets with a sign asking for money what do you do? do you give him or her money? what does that beggar do with that money? Like the city of Boston after hours... all the people sleeping on the grounds through the cold and the rain having only a plastic bag as their blankets... what do you do? do you take them all home offer them a job? no...you give them some money hoping that they would be smart and use that money to buy food to feed themselves and any family members. People don't choose to begg, butt sometimes they have no other choice...whether its because they came illegally into the country and has no relatives to be their baccbone, or has no way of going bacc to their homeland. Has anyone of you ever really did what kozol did? Talk to these people and find the reasons behind their issues? Sort of like littering... there are so many ways to help out like not littering, butt people still do it. Saving an animal's life by not eating meat/poultry... people still do it. Sometimesz when beggars are put into a nice home, a nice neighborhood and given a nice job, he or she wouldn't know how to deal with it and sometimesz he or she might throw it all away just to get bacc to his or her comfort zone... on the streets. So by the volunteers caring enough to go to a disease/poverty ridden community, that counts. It matters to those people. It shows there are still people that care. Yes, to others they might see as pretending to care, butt to those people in the community, they are given a chance to run their lives cleanly. Like say, your used to being in a home where you don't have to do anything: clean, cook, pay any bills, etc., you wouldn't want to leave. When you are on your own without the help that you are used to you wouldn't know how and where to start so you go bacc to your comfort zone... I don't know if thisz is making any sense, butt just know that sometimesz the smallest gestures mean the world to those that need it. Like not littering means alot to the environment. The smallest things do matter...
Talking points #1
While I was reading the article about bias still persisting in America, towards the end, "Those who assert we've arrived at a colorblind society are blinding themselves to reality." In a way, I sort to have to disagree, I mean I understand that it has been proven, but still I don't think it because we are blinding ourselves to reality, I think it because we don't see it or it hasn't happen to us personally. Like Dr. Bogad said she has never been stop- coming from a white, middle-class background. However, someone like my god-brother, he used to get stopped all the time when Asian gangs fights were becoming fatal. He would get stopped at least once a week or so and he would get interrogated about the other gang members and then when the cops reached the conclusion that my brother was not a part of any gang the cop moved on to talking about weed. Where in the world would my brother get marijuana from?! Also, I had a thought... although the black people that feel that they are being ignored, they should not. This whole black and white controversy are making black people very popular. Like for example, the n word, it has changed over the years and now has become a "more acceptable" word. However, words such as chink, chino (which by the way, I think means orange in spanish.,..but that's me) still exist and it seems to cease existence. Like people still use it to insult Asians. I never thought that society will actually put a color on Asians, but they did, I have heard people call Asians yellow- skin people before. I was annoyed but then again I was like if that is my skin color I am not going to deny it, just please don't use it to describe us. When I was younger, I was taught that people with disabilities rather be called that guy that is blind in place of the blind guy.
Secondly, as I was reading the seventh article written by Pat Parker, the whole time I was laughing and agreeing. She's right, "If you want to be my friend- don't make labor of it." Its OK to disagree with someone and still call him or her a friend. My friends, we have nothing in common, but we are still good friends that do everything together. The one stanza I especially liked was the one when Parker said don't go apologizing to her when someone of the same race does something wrong. It's true. In a show I saw one lady was uncomfortable talking to a guy on a wheelchair. She tried to relate to him by saying she knows someone else on a wheelchair and by accident she insulted him by saying maybe this guy might happen to know this other friend of hers. His response wasn't friendly, but wasn't insulting. He only tried to show her how silly she sounded so he responds something like the lady that bags his groceries is not on a wheelchair and maybe by chance she would know this lady. I think if someone is uncomfortable about saying something then don't bother saying it altogether unless it is absolutely, completely necessary.
I feel melancholic about Goldberg's quote of Gelernter, "What will become of a country whose youngest citizens have been taught to have so little affection for it?"I want to say he... they are right on one point. "Children are the future" is the phrase I grew up with, but if children aren't taught at an early age or even taught at all about patriotism then how are they going to learn it? At the same time tho, I think to myself, I learned to love Cambodia without the help of my parents or anyone at all. I learned everything I know about tradition by looking on and watching the elders sit and talk about how glad they are to be here in America. Then I start to hate America. Hate how som many cultures and traditions are being lost because so many countries are trying to become more American- like. Children today learn to love the American traditon such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, but they aren't being taught how to love America. So this leaves me wondering... what about America shall we be all in love with? America is contaminated with rascism, prejudice and at times corruption. Yes! I know Cambodia and Laos and China has alot of corruption also, but at least they aren't judgemental and hate a person just because of their skin color or sexual preferences. That goes other countries too not jus the ones I desended from. ---->>> Did I use that word correctly? lol I am trying to improve my English as you can see...<<<---- The last article I read, Kozol Amazing Grace, I came to the conclusion that I am a very sensitive person. Reading the death rates and reasons of deaths I fought so hard not to cry. I always thought I saw the evils in life, when I saw that there are worser evils, it hurted me to the bone. Especially the last page Cliffie saying that his mom might pass too... For some odd reason I felt connected to Cliffie. While reading the article I kept asking myself, "How come the narrator isn't doing anything about it? Why don't he offer some money?" Then I realized, I have been in the position when all these sufferings were happening in my face and all I can do about it is listen to them and watch them suffer. There is only so much that one person can do to help. The one paragraph about the nine year old that was raped by her mother's boyfriend, that hit me the worse. How can the guy, knowing he has a contagious and an incurable disease, why would he go and infect such an innoccent child?! Why would he need a child to satisfy his sexual needs in the first place... disease-ridden or not! Why?
Of all the articles we had to read for class, I found Kozol more satisfying to read. I actually was disappointed to reach the end of the story. I found it funny though... how does this story have any relevance to the class and culture of power... I don't see it... sorry.
Secondly, as I was reading the seventh article written by Pat Parker, the whole time I was laughing and agreeing. She's right, "If you want to be my friend- don't make labor of it." Its OK to disagree with someone and still call him or her a friend. My friends, we have nothing in common, but we are still good friends that do everything together. The one stanza I especially liked was the one when Parker said don't go apologizing to her when someone of the same race does something wrong. It's true. In a show I saw one lady was uncomfortable talking to a guy on a wheelchair. She tried to relate to him by saying she knows someone else on a wheelchair and by accident she insulted him by saying maybe this guy might happen to know this other friend of hers. His response wasn't friendly, but wasn't insulting. He only tried to show her how silly she sounded so he responds something like the lady that bags his groceries is not on a wheelchair and maybe by chance she would know this lady. I think if someone is uncomfortable about saying something then don't bother saying it altogether unless it is absolutely, completely necessary.
I feel melancholic about Goldberg's quote of Gelernter, "What will become of a country whose youngest citizens have been taught to have so little affection for it?"I want to say he... they are right on one point. "Children are the future" is the phrase I grew up with, but if children aren't taught at an early age or even taught at all about patriotism then how are they going to learn it? At the same time tho, I think to myself, I learned to love Cambodia without the help of my parents or anyone at all. I learned everything I know about tradition by looking on and watching the elders sit and talk about how glad they are to be here in America. Then I start to hate America. Hate how som many cultures and traditions are being lost because so many countries are trying to become more American- like. Children today learn to love the American traditon such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, but they aren't being taught how to love America. So this leaves me wondering... what about America shall we be all in love with? America is contaminated with rascism, prejudice and at times corruption. Yes! I know Cambodia and Laos and China has alot of corruption also, but at least they aren't judgemental and hate a person just because of their skin color or sexual preferences. That goes other countries too not jus the ones I desended from. ---->>> Did I use that word correctly? lol I am trying to improve my English as you can see...<<<---- The last article I read, Kozol Amazing Grace, I came to the conclusion that I am a very sensitive person. Reading the death rates and reasons of deaths I fought so hard not to cry. I always thought I saw the evils in life, when I saw that there are worser evils, it hurted me to the bone. Especially the last page Cliffie saying that his mom might pass too... For some odd reason I felt connected to Cliffie. While reading the article I kept asking myself, "How come the narrator isn't doing anything about it? Why don't he offer some money?" Then I realized, I have been in the position when all these sufferings were happening in my face and all I can do about it is listen to them and watch them suffer. There is only so much that one person can do to help. The one paragraph about the nine year old that was raped by her mother's boyfriend, that hit me the worse. How can the guy, knowing he has a contagious and an incurable disease, why would he go and infect such an innoccent child?! Why would he need a child to satisfy his sexual needs in the first place... disease-ridden or not! Why?
Of all the articles we had to read for class, I found Kozol more satisfying to read. I actually was disappointed to reach the end of the story. I found it funny though... how does this story have any relevance to the class and culture of power... I don't see it... sorry.
Bored at work... like always
I work in Lincoln with some friendly customers and some rather mean customers lol... in any case, I got boreed and decided to try and fix my profile then I realized... I only know how to put the song in my profile I don't know how to put the full song lmao... anyways... Like there is so much to say about me, like I love to talk although sometimes I can be VERY shy... believe it or not... I am a very shy person. Today I find myself also I realized many things. One being that the more I seem to practice the Khmer language, the more I lose the American language. After my second trip bacc from Cambodia, I notice that I tend to stop in the middle of a conversation stucc like lost of words and say, "How do you say?" Like even in the middle of a heated discussion, I would stop and say, "Like how you say, how you say..." and I'm thinking and thinking then I just give up and say, "I don't know how you say sorry... so I'm just going to stop here," and that would end the conversation. Secondly, my stuttering is starting to come bacc. I don't know, recently my stuttering has gotten from bad to worse. Like it calmed down for a few years and now like BAM! hit harder than ever... something must have happened to cause me to lose confidence in myself. Thirdly, I almost lost my job. I mean I wouldn't mind. It'd be easier if they let me go rather than I ask to go. I always been a soft-hearted person. Like I could not say "no", especially if I was asked like face-to-face. I always ended up saying "yes" no matter how much I wanted to say "no." I have been called a conservative girly-girl recently. I don't think I am either. I see myself as non-judgemental and somewhat spontaneous and also a lil care-less. Like I could care less what people think of me or what I look like or what I am wearing, long as I know I am good and I feel good then IDC what other people think. I know myself that I haven't been the best that I can be and that I have made alot of mistakes... butt then again like that singer sang..."You live and you learn..." so if I haven't made the mistakes that I did make then I wouldn't be the Rasni I am today. I live with no regrets and every decision I make I know in the end if I'm going to say, "Dag! I shouldn'tve done that!" Then I'm going to not follow thru...I make the best of what I am given and I try to live everyday with a smile... Cuz I know, the start if a good day begins with a smile. I think of myself as a happy person, and people like to see me smile... like I swear sometimes my customers would come in just to see me smile. I remember one customer would come in to say hi and see me smile at him. Until he started creeping me out that was... lol anyways... work calls and plus my hands are getting tired ahaha ttus :)
me...
I am often confused and always finds myself either alienating myself or dazing off in my own little world. I am the secretary of ASA... I often get told that I am much better off as the president, but I like my job as secretary; I actually get to run around and get work done. I am a secondary education/ middle school endorsement major with a focus on math. I am no good in math but that's why I am here right... to learn. I am very optimistic and get bored easily. Anything else you wanna know, don't be afraid to contact me. BTW I like to be considered an American not Cambodian. The only reason being is that I was born here and not there. I am not ashamed of being Asian tho, don't get me wrong, I just prefer to be called an American. It makes it easier for me to not be expected to know my own language... because i don't practice my own language. I started speaking it summer of '05.(The first time I ever spoke Khmer!) So yeah, I am a late bloomer that's why if people know me as an American they won't expect me to know the Khmer language. Get me? P.s. that's another thing, if I'm not the one confused then I'm doing the confusing lol...so just bear with me...
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