We look to get affirmation from others because we want to feel special and important. We want others to make us feel valued. What other people think of us matter. I know I struggle with this, because I care maybe too much. Always wondering what other people think of me, always trying to make a good impression. And I know I judge people all the time. We all want to be accepted. This is why we construct different identities for ourselves and play these different roles with the people in our lives.
We depend on the relationships we have with others. Depending on our needs and motivations we decide which relationships are more important than others, which relationships we can do without and those we can’t live without. I feel like we put people into different categories depending on whom they are and measure their value to us and our lives. I can read people pretty well which allows me to put them in different categories and that’s how I decide how I’m going to interact with them. Depending on who they are and what category they fall in I decide if we’ll be friends or not, if I like them or not, if they’re good people or bad people, etc. The relationships I have in my life with various people all matter to me in some way and I depend on them to fulfill my needs and motivations.
Relationships to us matter because they add meaning and a sense of belonging to our lives. Our families for example provide us with love and support and they make us feel safe. Our parents value us and think we are special people. We feel like we each have a place in our family. We depend on them. Our families provide us with a security blanket. Like we know or would like to believe that they will be there to help and protect us throughout our lives. We need our families and in return we try to provide our families with the same love and respect they give us. Which is why many people love their families (parents, siblings, grandparents, etc) more than any other relationships. Family comes first for some; I know that is true for me. Our families are the foundation of our upbringing and who we are. They were the first people we learned how to treat, respect, love, and care about.
With friends we are free to let our guards down and just be ourselves. There is no acting or playing different roles with them. They accept us for who we are and like us for that. I feel like there is no pressure to impress friends like there might be for the other relationships we have. We also form some of our ideas on how to live our lives and ethics on how to treat people from our friends. Every relationship influences us.
I believe we all learn and grow from our relationships. I know that many of the relationships I have with people in my life, teach me a lot about myself and how I should treat and interact with people, but also how I should live my live. For example our families are the core of our beliefs and ethics on life, for example many people follow a certain religion because their families do. I pull from the many relationships I have on how I choose to live my life. I think we all do in some way.
Life is all about the relationships we have with people. We depend on these relationships. We function because of these relationships. Society is one big relationship between people. In a society everyone is trying to maintain a functioning relationship. The question is how to make that relationship better?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
hw 51
“School is like a 12 step brainwash camp”
Schools are a part of a system of oppression that prepares people for a place in society. Schools are institutions that are designed to teach its follows(students) that without it they are failures. Without getting an education there is no way they will be able to succeed in life. Schools are there to “save” them. Teaching them how to function and behave in society, instead of teaching them how to think for themselves.The schools hold the power. Schools are teacher centered rather than focused on the students. The teachers teach students what they want. Students are taught to with a specific curriculum and textbooks are beaten into their heads, forcing them to conform with the system.
There’s a bigger picture to what is being taught in schools . There is a “hidden curriculum” where students are taught by the teachers to obey authority, to do as they are told, to become like sheep. In order to function within existing systems in our society. So those students who rebel against this teaching and disrespect the teachers (authority) are seen as the “trouble makers” in classes and are reprimanded by school authority.
A certain set of values, attitudes, and knowledge taught by the teachers are enforced and conveyed to the students. For example “the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined; the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply; the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing; the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects”. Teachers prepare these students for a place in society where the same rules apply, they must be able to obey those with the power and not have anything against it but accept it as reality.
The system wants students to learn certain skills and knowledge from school so that they can become working class citizens. So that they can go to college, get a job, and work for the man. To become workers and consumers. It’s like a cycle. There’s a path that schools teach students to follow which is to cooperate with society. Being brainwashed by learning how to please and follow society’s rules. Students without an education are seen as failures in society. They are made to believe that there is no way to succeed in the future or in society if they don’t become what society wants.The system oppresses the students, holds them back and dumb them down. Teaching stuff that doesn’t encourage free thinking. According to Paulo Freire, teachers use the “banking” approach to education which allows them to fill the students with information. That the students store and memorize in their brains becoming “deposits”. This allows the teachers and the system to control their minds, which the system benefits from not the students.
Freire proposes a different way of teaching to escape this oppression. By changing the way schools are teacher centered and making them student centered. To get the students to start thinking for themselves instead of what they are being taught to think. The school should work together with the students to create their own curriculum and knowledge being taught. In the movie “Dead Poets Society” the teacher encourages the student’s free thinking by making them rip up their textbooks. The teacher encourages learning from a new perspective. The students break routine and are encouraged to consider what they think. Teachers should be guides for students learning process not saviors or dictators.
Theodore Sizer, an education reform advocate, would also agree with Freire. That school should focus on the students using their minds more. Where the students are valued and the teachers are just their coaches. This is how SOF was designed. In SOF the students and teacher work together to improve the learning process and knowledge being taught. Students use the habits of mind which push their thinking further and allows them to question the material being taught to them. The school and teachers encourage free thinking. It’s more focused on the students and what they have to say, rather than the teacher doing all of the teaching. Instead of
oppressing the students, SOF offers a type of balanced education.
Dr. Lisa Delpit also agrees with the idea of working with the students and not against them. To bring the students and the teachers together to develop a curriculum that the students can benefit from. Where the students are taken into consideration and their knowledge is being pushed. Where the students are actually learning and thinking for themselves.
Schools should not oppress the students but should encourage the student’s free thinking. To give the students a chance and to stop teaching that without an education or following what society wants them to become there is no way for them to succeed in life. The system as a whole has the power and won't compromise with the students wants but schools should encourage students and teachers to work together for a better learning experience at least in their classes. To not conform to what society wants but becoming a free individual. To not let the system over power them, dictate ,or plan out their lives.
Work cited:
Dead Poets Society
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Stanley, Nile. " Interview with Lisa Delpit: Discovering Brilliance in Our Children." Publication of the Florida Reading Association 40.2 (2003): n. pag. Web. 25 Apr 2010..
Dead Prez- "They Schools"
Fox, Margalit. "Theodore R. Sizer, Leading Education-Reform Advocate, Dies at 77 ." New York Times (2009): n. pag. Web. 25 Apr 2010..
Schools are a part of a system of oppression that prepares people for a place in society. Schools are institutions that are designed to teach its follows(students) that without it they are failures. Without getting an education there is no way they will be able to succeed in life. Schools are there to “save” them. Teaching them how to function and behave in society, instead of teaching them how to think for themselves.The schools hold the power. Schools are teacher centered rather than focused on the students. The teachers teach students what they want. Students are taught to with a specific curriculum and textbooks are beaten into their heads, forcing them to conform with the system.
There’s a bigger picture to what is being taught in schools . There is a “hidden curriculum” where students are taught by the teachers to obey authority, to do as they are told, to become like sheep. In order to function within existing systems in our society. So those students who rebel against this teaching and disrespect the teachers (authority) are seen as the “trouble makers” in classes and are reprimanded by school authority.
A certain set of values, attitudes, and knowledge taught by the teachers are enforced and conveyed to the students. For example “the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined; the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply; the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing; the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects”. Teachers prepare these students for a place in society where the same rules apply, they must be able to obey those with the power and not have anything against it but accept it as reality.
The system wants students to learn certain skills and knowledge from school so that they can become working class citizens. So that they can go to college, get a job, and work for the man. To become workers and consumers. It’s like a cycle. There’s a path that schools teach students to follow which is to cooperate with society. Being brainwashed by learning how to please and follow society’s rules. Students without an education are seen as failures in society. They are made to believe that there is no way to succeed in the future or in society if they don’t become what society wants.The system oppresses the students, holds them back and dumb them down. Teaching stuff that doesn’t encourage free thinking. According to Paulo Freire, teachers use the “banking” approach to education which allows them to fill the students with information. That the students store and memorize in their brains becoming “deposits”. This allows the teachers and the system to control their minds, which the system benefits from not the students.
Freire proposes a different way of teaching to escape this oppression. By changing the way schools are teacher centered and making them student centered. To get the students to start thinking for themselves instead of what they are being taught to think. The school should work together with the students to create their own curriculum and knowledge being taught. In the movie “Dead Poets Society” the teacher encourages the student’s free thinking by making them rip up their textbooks. The teacher encourages learning from a new perspective. The students break routine and are encouraged to consider what they think. Teachers should be guides for students learning process not saviors or dictators.
Theodore Sizer, an education reform advocate, would also agree with Freire. That school should focus on the students using their minds more. Where the students are valued and the teachers are just their coaches. This is how SOF was designed. In SOF the students and teacher work together to improve the learning process and knowledge being taught. Students use the habits of mind which push their thinking further and allows them to question the material being taught to them. The school and teachers encourage free thinking. It’s more focused on the students and what they have to say, rather than the teacher doing all of the teaching. Instead of
oppressing the students, SOF offers a type of balanced education.
Dr. Lisa Delpit also agrees with the idea of working with the students and not against them. To bring the students and the teachers together to develop a curriculum that the students can benefit from. Where the students are taken into consideration and their knowledge is being pushed. Where the students are actually learning and thinking for themselves.
Schools should not oppress the students but should encourage the student’s free thinking. To give the students a chance and to stop teaching that without an education or following what society wants them to become there is no way for them to succeed in life. The system as a whole has the power and won't compromise with the students wants but schools should encourage students and teachers to work together for a better learning experience at least in their classes. To not conform to what society wants but becoming a free individual. To not let the system over power them, dictate ,or plan out their lives.
Work cited:
Dead Poets Society
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Stanley, Nile. " Interview with Lisa Delpit: Discovering Brilliance in Our Children." Publication of the Florida Reading Association 40.2 (2003): n. pag. Web. 25 Apr 2010.
Dead Prez- "They Schools"
Fox, Margalit. "Theodore R. Sizer, Leading Education-Reform Advocate, Dies at 77 ." New York Times (2009): n. pag. Web. 25 Apr 2010.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Hw 50
The piece “Against schools” by Gatto was about his experience as an educator in the public school system. He questions the purpose of schooling and if students are really learning this way. He believes in education but not “schooling”, he’s against the system. He believes that schools fall short of accomplishing the mission they were founded. He states that there are other ways a person can educate themselves instead of submitting themselves to a forced education system. That schooling is not all what it’s cranked up to be. He states in a nutshell that schools cripple the individual by dumbing them down and making them conform to the system. That school is basically a trap to get us to conform.
I actually agree with a lot of the points Gatto makes. I also find myself questioning the point of school. Why? I don’t really think we need schooling in order to be successful which is what society wants us to believe. I don’t feel think students really learn much in school for various reasons. Mainly because they simply aren’t interested in what is being taught to them. Everyone in school is taught the same things and therefore everyone believes the same things. It’s the whole plan of the system, to get everyone to conform. I agree that “schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands.” This is why we all go to school and is why society wants us to go to school. School is a trap and we can’t escape it, we have to join the institution or it will find us.Schools are nothing more than a part of a system of oppression that keeps us down.
The piece “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Freire talks about how schools are part of a system of oppression, it oppresses the students and “mirrors society as a whole”. He talks about how education is basically a narration with teachers as the narrator. Who deposit specific information into the students and if the students believe and store that information, they are getting their job done. How the students are being misguided by the system. Students are being taught to comply which therefore makes them “manageable beings”.
It’s the teacher’s job to prepare us for a role in society. To conform and comply with what society expects from us. The minds of the students are being controlled. The teachers are teaching but students aren’t really learning anything. They are just storing all the information being fed to them. Students aren’t taught to think for themselves. Students are being taught there is no alternative. “The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society”, you will become what society wants you to become and one way of doing so is by what you are taught in school. Students aren’t benefiting from the institution of education instead they are being oppressed by it.
The interview with Lisa Delpit by Nile Stanley is about her being the director of the Center for Urban Education and Innovation at Florida International University in Miami and what the school is about. The goal of the school is to “provide schools and communities with the necessary skills to insure excellent education for low-income children of color, particularly African-American”. She’s basically like a “savior” for the students and is all about really showing teachers how to see how smart their students really are. She also believes that the arts are really important in uncovering the strengths of students. She wants to teach teacher's how to see the best in the students they teach. To work with the students and not against them.
I agree with many of the things Dr. Delpit had to say in her interview. I think that many schools are lacking teachers who take a genuine interest in their students . Which doesn’t enable them to see the strengths of their students but rather what they still need to teach them. Instead teachers need to develop a relationship with their students and work around what they already know and do well. This is what she refers to as “teaching to the students needs” which is important because that way students actually learn. Teachers should also develop strategies and curriculum's that help them better relate and understand their student’s needs to inspire them to learn and bring out their “brilliance”.
Interview With Mr. Copeland:
Mr. Copeland's goal as a teacher is to bring some degree of social justice regarding education. He believes that students need certain skills that high school has to give them in order to be successful in the real word/future. He hopes that his students are learning the material that he teaches and is satisfied when they do. A personal gain teaching gives him is that "being a teacher forces you to constantly educate yourself and not every job does that". He feels that he learns from his students. Whether it's about the issues they deal with or about their backgrounds which might have been different from his own. He tries to show his students a different point of view. But mainly he doesn't "need to watch a movie on how to be a teacher" and feels his students "don't need to watch stuff on TV to see how they want to be".
After interviewing Mr. Copeland it seems that he believes in having a mix of the two types of education -transcendence and immanence. He doesn't strike me as being a "savior". He just wants to educate his students on issues of importance and wants them to learn certain necessary skills that will help them in the future. His students learn from him but in return he learns from his students. It seems he has a relationship with his students that enables him to understand and work with them better.
I actually agree with a lot of the points Gatto makes. I also find myself questioning the point of school. Why? I don’t really think we need schooling in order to be successful which is what society wants us to believe. I don’t feel think students really learn much in school for various reasons. Mainly because they simply aren’t interested in what is being taught to them. Everyone in school is taught the same things and therefore everyone believes the same things. It’s the whole plan of the system, to get everyone to conform. I agree that “schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands.” This is why we all go to school and is why society wants us to go to school. School is a trap and we can’t escape it, we have to join the institution or it will find us.Schools are nothing more than a part of a system of oppression that keeps us down.
The piece “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Freire talks about how schools are part of a system of oppression, it oppresses the students and “mirrors society as a whole”. He talks about how education is basically a narration with teachers as the narrator. Who deposit specific information into the students and if the students believe and store that information, they are getting their job done. How the students are being misguided by the system. Students are being taught to comply which therefore makes them “manageable beings”.
It’s the teacher’s job to prepare us for a role in society. To conform and comply with what society expects from us. The minds of the students are being controlled. The teachers are teaching but students aren’t really learning anything. They are just storing all the information being fed to them. Students aren’t taught to think for themselves. Students are being taught there is no alternative. “The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society”, you will become what society wants you to become and one way of doing so is by what you are taught in school. Students aren’t benefiting from the institution of education instead they are being oppressed by it.
The interview with Lisa Delpit by Nile Stanley is about her being the director of the Center for Urban Education and Innovation at Florida International University in Miami and what the school is about. The goal of the school is to “provide schools and communities with the necessary skills to insure excellent education for low-income children of color, particularly African-American”. She’s basically like a “savior” for the students and is all about really showing teachers how to see how smart their students really are. She also believes that the arts are really important in uncovering the strengths of students. She wants to teach teacher's how to see the best in the students they teach. To work with the students and not against them.
I agree with many of the things Dr. Delpit had to say in her interview. I think that many schools are lacking teachers who take a genuine interest in their students . Which doesn’t enable them to see the strengths of their students but rather what they still need to teach them. Instead teachers need to develop a relationship with their students and work around what they already know and do well. This is what she refers to as “teaching to the students needs” which is important because that way students actually learn. Teachers should also develop strategies and curriculum's that help them better relate and understand their student’s needs to inspire them to learn and bring out their “brilliance”.
Interview With Mr. Copeland:
Mr. Copeland's goal as a teacher is to bring some degree of social justice regarding education. He believes that students need certain skills that high school has to give them in order to be successful in the real word/future. He hopes that his students are learning the material that he teaches and is satisfied when they do. A personal gain teaching gives him is that "being a teacher forces you to constantly educate yourself and not every job does that". He feels that he learns from his students. Whether it's about the issues they deal with or about their backgrounds which might have been different from his own. He tries to show his students a different point of view. But mainly he doesn't "need to watch a movie on how to be a teacher" and feels his students "don't need to watch stuff on TV to see how they want to be".
After interviewing Mr. Copeland it seems that he believes in having a mix of the two types of education -transcendence and immanence. He doesn't strike me as being a "savior". He just wants to educate his students on issues of importance and wants them to learn certain necessary skills that will help them in the future. His students learn from him but in return he learns from his students. It seems he has a relationship with his students that enables him to understand and work with them better.
HW 49
Section A’s class film was different from all the other films we have been watching in class( Freedom Writers, Dangerous Minds, Blackboard Jungle, etc.) in the sense that in the end the teacher wasn’t able to “save” the students. The teacher wasn’t able to reach his students in the way he would have liked. The students didn’t seem interested in learning. This ultimately led the teacher to give up on his students.
Unlike the films we watched in class the teacher didn’t try to get his students to quite down and pay attention to him by yelling or anything like that. He waited for the students to quite down before beginning his lesson. He didn’t seem to inspire them with his lesson either leading him to give up . This led him to turn to drinking openly in the classroom while the students sat around and engaged in conversation with each other. Probably because he felt like he was hopelessly failing as the “savior” teacher. Not realizing that he couldn’t magically inspire the students or get them to care about what he was teaching if they didn’t want to or weren’t interested. The students seemed more into socializing with one another instead of giving the teacher respect. The teacher also brings his personal problems (drinking) into the classroom. The teacher also takes his frustrations out on the students. He puts them down instead of trying to uplift and save them. The students in the end don ‘t wind up being saved by the teacher or develop a sense of respect for him either. The teacher didn’t drastically change the lives of the students in any way or was seen as inspiring to them.
Like the films the students don’t acknowledge his presence in the classroom with all the chatter taking place. The students seem disrespectful and like they would rather be someplace else. The teacher tries to engage them in learning what he has to teach.
Teachers in my opinion want to be saviors. They want to help their students in some way or another. Teachers want to inspire their students to want to learn and they want to be successful doing so. Their desire to be saviors is satisfied if they get to make and see a change in the students. If they can successfully get them to care about their education and the lessons they are learning in school. Our society sees teachers as heroes who help the youth better themselves and get the students to apply themselves in order to be successful in school and ultimately in life.
Unlike the films we watched in class the teacher didn’t try to get his students to quite down and pay attention to him by yelling or anything like that. He waited for the students to quite down before beginning his lesson. He didn’t seem to inspire them with his lesson either leading him to give up . This led him to turn to drinking openly in the classroom while the students sat around and engaged in conversation with each other. Probably because he felt like he was hopelessly failing as the “savior” teacher. Not realizing that he couldn’t magically inspire the students or get them to care about what he was teaching if they didn’t want to or weren’t interested. The students seemed more into socializing with one another instead of giving the teacher respect. The teacher also brings his personal problems (drinking) into the classroom. The teacher also takes his frustrations out on the students. He puts them down instead of trying to uplift and save them. The students in the end don ‘t wind up being saved by the teacher or develop a sense of respect for him either. The teacher didn’t drastically change the lives of the students in any way or was seen as inspiring to them.
Like the films the students don’t acknowledge his presence in the classroom with all the chatter taking place. The students seem disrespectful and like they would rather be someplace else. The teacher tries to engage them in learning what he has to teach.
Teachers in my opinion want to be saviors. They want to help their students in some way or another. Teachers want to inspire their students to want to learn and they want to be successful doing so. Their desire to be saviors is satisfied if they get to make and see a change in the students. If they can successfully get them to care about their education and the lessons they are learning in school. Our society sees teachers as heroes who help the youth better themselves and get the students to apply themselves in order to be successful in school and ultimately in life.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
The Class
The film “The class” is a definitely a more realistic portrayal of classroom interactions. When it comes to the interactions student’s have with their teacher and with each other. When compared to all the other films we have watched in class. The film is a “savior” film in the sense that the teacher (Mr. Marin) aim’s to inspire his students. This film deals with the behavioral problems and the interactions the teachers have with the students and takes a look at how they deal with it.
I do think that in some way Mr. Marin was responsible for Soleymane’s expulsion. The fact that he gave him a bad grade and said things to the committee of teachers about him made it that much easier for them to expel him. I think that Mr. Marin should have defended Soleymane a little more. I think that Mr. Marin gave up on Soleymane towards the end by thinking he was “limited”. I think that Mr. Marin should have found a different way to individually deal with the problems he was facing with Soleymane’s behavior instead of getting the whole team of teachers involved. Which made it that much easier for the team to expel him. On the other hand Soleymane should also be held responsible for his own behavior and actions in class. He did disrupt the learning environment in class and was labeled the “trouble maker”.
I don’t think the teachers cared what Soleymane was going through at home which could have caused the problems he was having in school. The teachers didn’t take that into consideration. I think it was a systematic issue if these teachers where expelling so many students at their school. I think that it was both the teachers and the students fault. I think the teachers should have tried to work with the “problem” students, to try and better the situation. Instead of just giving up on them and sending them to another school where they will become another group of teachers’ problem. The teacher’s should have tried to reach out to the students to show they care by praising them for the good they were doing in class. Instead of punishing them for all the bad they were doing. I think their system of discipline could have been better effective if they worked with the students instead of putting them on trial.
I do think that in some way Mr. Marin was responsible for Soleymane’s expulsion. The fact that he gave him a bad grade and said things to the committee of teachers about him made it that much easier for them to expel him. I think that Mr. Marin should have defended Soleymane a little more. I think that Mr. Marin gave up on Soleymane towards the end by thinking he was “limited”. I think that Mr. Marin should have found a different way to individually deal with the problems he was facing with Soleymane’s behavior instead of getting the whole team of teachers involved. Which made it that much easier for the team to expel him. On the other hand Soleymane should also be held responsible for his own behavior and actions in class. He did disrupt the learning environment in class and was labeled the “trouble maker”.
I don’t think the teachers cared what Soleymane was going through at home which could have caused the problems he was having in school. The teachers didn’t take that into consideration. I think it was a systematic issue if these teachers where expelling so many students at their school. I think that it was both the teachers and the students fault. I think the teachers should have tried to work with the “problem” students, to try and better the situation. Instead of just giving up on them and sending them to another school where they will become another group of teachers’ problem. The teacher’s should have tried to reach out to the students to show they care by praising them for the good they were doing in class. Instead of punishing them for all the bad they were doing. I think their system of discipline could have been better effective if they worked with the students instead of putting them on trial.
Monday, April 12, 2010
HW # 48
Treatment
A teacher changes how a class full of delinquents view themselves in life. The students the teacher has to deal with and teach are students who associate themselves with gang violence , drug dealing ,etc. It's the teacher's first day on the job teaching in a new school. He walks into a class full of rowdy students who are fooling around and acting like school is a playground. The students don't acknowledge him or care what he has to say. the teacher realizes he has a long school year ahead of him. He makes the decision that he is going to motivate the students to be better. He plans on teaching them that they can escape their current situations if they just apply themselves in school.
The students at first just think the teacher is like all the other teachers they have had in the past. Who don't really care about them but are just in it for the paycheck. The teacher however, tries to relate to the students by telling them his story. He captures their attention. The teacher lets them know that he came from the same background and neighborhood just like the one they live in but he escaped. He lets them know that he left his neighborhood and all his friends behind to make something out of himself.
The teacher motivates the students by switching up his curriculum. He makes home visits to the students homes to get their parents involved. The teacher improves the students grades and focus in class. Students begin to like the teacher and find themselves relating to him. The teacher inspires them to want to do better and escape their troubled lives.
A teacher changes how a class full of delinquents view themselves in life. The students the teacher has to deal with and teach are students who associate themselves with gang violence , drug dealing ,etc. It's the teacher's first day on the job teaching in a new school. He walks into a class full of rowdy students who are fooling around and acting like school is a playground. The students don't acknowledge him or care what he has to say. the teacher realizes he has a long school year ahead of him. He makes the decision that he is going to motivate the students to be better. He plans on teaching them that they can escape their current situations if they just apply themselves in school.
The students at first just think the teacher is like all the other teachers they have had in the past. Who don't really care about them but are just in it for the paycheck. The teacher however, tries to relate to the students by telling them his story. He captures their attention. The teacher lets them know that he came from the same background and neighborhood just like the one they live in but he escaped. He lets them know that he left his neighborhood and all his friends behind to make something out of himself.
The teacher motivates the students by switching up his curriculum. He makes home visits to the students homes to get their parents involved. The teacher improves the students grades and focus in class. Students begin to like the teacher and find themselves relating to him. The teacher inspires them to want to do better and escape their troubled lives.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
HW# 47
Film Ideas:
1.) A teacher struggles to discipline students but they win .Then the teacher wins them over by teaching them something their interested in.
2.) A back and forth battle between the teacher and the students.
3.) A teacher who breaks all the rules and goes by there own curriculum but is seen as too radical.
4.) A teacher transforms a class of unruly underachievers to disciplined/polite students who succeed.
5.)A teacher who rules there students with force but has to change there method to better suit the students.
1.) A teacher struggles to discipline students but they win .Then the teacher wins them over by teaching them something their interested in.
2.) A back and forth battle between the teacher and the students.
3.) A teacher who breaks all the rules and goes by there own curriculum but is seen as too radical.
4.) A teacher transforms a class of unruly underachievers to disciplined/polite students who succeed.
5.)A teacher who rules there students with force but has to change there method to better suit the students.
HW #46
"Give a boy a gun" by Todd Strasser, is about two boys Gary and Brenden who open fire at a school dance. Seeking revenge on all the teachers and students who bullied and tormented them over the years. The author also offers information (facts) about other school shootings and the gun culture.
Even though this is a fictional story "Give a boy a gun" mirrors real-life school shootings that have occurred. This is useful for my topic because it relates to school safety. As well as what roles are played in school to contribute to the violence and how it affects the way a school is run and chooses to discipline there students.
The book is about a school shooting but it makes me think could school shootings alike be prevented. The boys also seek revenge on the students they feel have caused them so much suffering and humiliation in school but was their shooting justified. Does that make it okay for school violence to occur? The events taken place also make me question why was it so easy for these students to open fire at a school event and no one seemed to have seen it coming. Are kids really safe in school?
Even though this is a fictional story "Give a boy a gun" mirrors real-life school shootings that have occurred. This is useful for my topic because it relates to school safety. As well as what roles are played in school to contribute to the violence and how it affects the way a school is run and chooses to discipline there students.
The book is about a school shooting but it makes me think could school shootings alike be prevented. The boys also seek revenge on the students they feel have caused them so much suffering and humiliation in school but was their shooting justified. Does that make it okay for school violence to occur? The events taken place also make me question why was it so easy for these students to open fire at a school event and no one seemed to have seen it coming. Are kids really safe in school?
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