talking point #9

Christopher Kliewer  Schooling Children with Down Syndrome

"It reflected Shayne's unique approach to building community throughout the processes of leaning. Within the web activities, Shayne and her co-workers systematically developed opportunities for their students to engage with literacy and numeracy skills, problem-solving and critical thinking processes, and interpersonal capacities, Thought the children may not have been aware of it, leaning was always a central concern."

I think all schools that have a special education programs need to have dedicated people like Shayne that know how to keep the students attention and keep them leaning at the same time.  Where i work, about a year ago we hired someone with special needs.  On his first day the people working at that time had the person that was going to school to be a special education teacher train him on what to do.  I think anyone could have shown him what to do but they assumed he needed more training then any other person would have. It so not true.  He is a good worker and now he is friends with everyone but i didnt like how he was treated different on his first day just because he had some kind of special needs.

diverisity Event

At first i went to the "Journey to Asia" to use as my diversity event. I let the weeks go by and did post anything about going and know that was a good thing. My friend at PC is in ROTC. I dont remember what it stand for and not really sure how to describe it. The best way to put it is a way to enter the armed forces while you are till going to school. You learn thing about he millitary all while remaining in school. In the spring every year they have a Millitary Ball for the seniors graduation and you learn what branch of the millitary each plan on entering. My friend asked me to go with her so she didnt have to go solo.

While i was there i noticed how more then 95% of the people there in uniform were white males. I notice only four other females there part of ROCT besides my friend. Only one of those females where black. As for the male close to all of them where white. As the ball started everyone went to thier seat and after the flags where marched in they went on to doing toasts. They where the normal things you would expect, but one of them was a little strange for this time in america. They toasted to the women that attened the ball and they refered to them as the lady that where the dates to all the men. What about the women in ROTC. they where not there just to be dates. After the toasts they asked the gentalman to seat there ladys. Yes its a very prober thing to do but what about the one girl i met thier that brought her female friend as a date. Who in that situation is supposed to sit who? What if a man brought another man as his date do they just both sit down after the women where seated or does one pull out the chair for the other?

Later on in the night one of the senoir was to announce the speaker. I dont know where the senoir stand or things like that but the senoir who did the announcing was a white male. Every speaker was a white male. Everyone who was important thier with the most tags and medels where white males.

The senoirs get the chance to make a video that mocks the higher up in the program before they leave and each other. The video was funney even if i did not personally know the people they were mocking. But the two senoirs the video made fun of was a female and a male who was married. The male they mocked was being mocked for being married and alway being controled by his wife. None of the other senior where made fun of. It was the feminity that was mocked when it involed the senoir. The teachers where not that way it was just about there oddness to put it nicely.

Delpit was screaming in my ear the whole night. "Rules and Codes of Power." "Rules and Codes of Power." "Look who has all the power in this room."

The milltary has made changed in the past years by allowing female to enter into the armed force, but i have yet to see one rise up to some of the position for years only men have heald.
Is it discirimation? Is it easyer for a man to get a promotion? I dont know because i dont see it. I am not in that would. but i can take a guess and say in some way both of those questions are answered with a "yes".

Group:  Michael C, Kelly, Pat, Jared

Movie: 

Our first example is the youngest child in the movie that played outside with the other kids they included him in the game they played and even the other children wanted to show him how to play.

Richard learned more while included in the regular classes. The other kids in the room would fight over who would get to sit next to him in the front of the room.  They talked about a vocabulary game that played where he was memorizing the word of the game faster then they were moving forward with the game.  He learned more while included in the regular classroom then he did excluded in special classes.

At the end of the movie the school needed to create a new entrance to the school with a ramp to make it more accessible for every student .

Text: 

page 93 a high-status student, Bubba, when to a gathering of school personnel on the issue of Becky's rights to an education in a regular setting.

page 77 The wild thing production was not an add-on to the preexisting curriculum. reflected Shayne's unique approach to a building community.

page 95 Through citizenship they came to be recognize as thinking creative individuals who added uniques and valuable dimensions to the group.

  

Talking Point #8

Jean Anyon "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work"


"There has been little or no attempt to investigate these ideas empirically in elementary schools or secondary schools and classrooms in this country" I believe that this was true in 1980 when this article first appeared in Journal of Education. Today i can guess that this has been studied a lot especially after Anyon published her findings. Creating requirement for schools is all about where the school is and the population of students that attend that school. Stereotypes are also place on school in certain areas.

"The teacher told them the steps to follow to do the problems" I think Anyon has a negative view on step following but i think in certain subjects they are necessary. What bothers me more is her example about the teacher using steps was in math. Steps are nessasary in math no matter how high or low the level is. yes, later in math you learn more concepts and how to think about problem and connect every concept but learning two digit division is all about the step you take to get the division correct. With out teaching the step of adding fraction the 4th graders in my service learning class would have had a much harder time leaning it, more then they already did.

While reading Anyon's article i really notice myself thinking of the class i am doing my service learning in and also my own experiences in school. while she talked about the working class schools i really saw what she was describers in the learning methods. the 4th grade class i am in is taught exatcly like the one she observed under her working class category. The next category about the middle-class school was most like what i experience but not completely on point. unlike what she observed i was also told to use my creativity in school and i experienced some of what she observed in the last two categories.