Final Case Study
Date: Nov 4th, 2006 6:20:55 am - Subscribe
Mood: encouraged
- My blog includes my case study’s response to the first blog question, which the student honestly answered to how students are treated differently at school. Banks states prejudice reduction describes lessons and activities teachers use to help students develop positive attitudes toward different racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. This student concludes that the administrative staff did not fully understand the situation and was not handled appropriately. Payne states that knowledge of hidden rules is crucial to whatever class in which the individual wishes to live. As educators, we need to be fully aware of these hidden rules and how they place a role in the lives of each student.
- My blog includes my second case study to which his response was knowledgeable in the “groups” of his school. Banks states it well, in that both excellence and equality should be major goals of education in a pluralistic society. He also states that the school should be a cultural environment in which acculturation takes place; teachers and students should assimilate some of the views, perspectives, and ethos of each other as they interact.
- My blog includes in his opinion on what advice to give to teachers about making sure students feel safe and respect in their classroom, related more on trust. Trust and understanding would go hand in hand with communication. Communication is a vital and important part of the school system and for the success of our students. Payne states it well that through support systems, through caring about students, by promoting student achievement, by being role models, by insisting upon successful behaviors for school. Support systems are simply networks of relationships. The key to achievement for students from poverty or no poverty is in creating relationships with them.
- My thoughts on how my case study’s answers relate to what I’ve learned from Payne. I think the most important key the I’ve learned from Payne in relation to the case study, is how the language and registers of language help us to better understand poverty. Generational poverty has its own culture, hidden rules, and belief systems. These factors help us to better understand the students and their learning capacity to relate.
- My blog includes my thoughts on how my case study’s answers relate to what I’ve learned from Banks. Banks states it very well in that every person and social group possesses and uses culture as a tool for the conduct of human activity. Rather it is the “groups” or communication factor, Schools are collection sites for a diversity of voices and identities.
- My blog includes how my case study’s answers will help me to be a better educator. Communication will be an important part of my teaching career as a teacher. I understand it is very important in establishing a good foundation of understanding of what is expected from the student and visa versa. I want to be a good teacher that can be known as a good listener as well. I want to be able to encourage the students to make the best of each day and learn from their mistakes to build on and upward. Reading the blogs allowed me to comprehend the nature to just how much students of today need us as role models. As Banks states, good teaching requires that you have a comprehensive understanding of what you are doing in the classroom, why, and how you are doing it. I would want to make it my goal, to be prepared in what I will be doing in my classroom, to provide a wonderful learning experience and why I’m doing it will be for the benefit of my students. Each student is an individual, a unique learning and gifted student that needs leading them in the right direction.
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Case Study/Student
Date: Nov 3rd, 2006 4:28:56 am - Subscribe
Mood: positive
What advice would you give to teachers about makin sure students feel safe and respected in their classrooom?
Student:
“My advice would be to interact with us students, because when you interact with us we feel they can trust you more. Tell us things about yourself, like life experiences so we have a good understanding of where you come from this helps to earn our respect and give us a better understanding of who you are as a teacher. Last but not least don’t be scared to pull us aside to talk to us, we feel more safe, secure, and cared about when you show us that you want to talk to us individually other than a group, this makes us understand that we are not going through our high school years alone but with aid that cares enough to tell us what we are doing wrong or what we are succeeding in.”
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BLOG - #2
Date: Oct 28th, 2006 5:33:54 am - Subscribe
Mood: clever
What are the “groups” in your school?
Student: There are many types of groups like the jocks, skateboarders, preps, Goths, Mexicans, geeks, pot heads, druggies, know it alls, and last but not least the rich kids.
Are there any students or groups of students who are treated better in your school?
Student:
It depends, treated better? Well there are more of the preppy/jock cliques so they get noticed the most therefore causing them popularity and better treatment.
How are they treated better?
Student:
They get the most of attention (noticed most), looked up to by more than half of the school.
Who treats them better?
Student:
It depends on whom “who” is because different people get treated different ways because not everyone looks up to the same person; every individual has their own style they look upon.
If you can’t answer the first question (because every student and student group in your school is treated equally) tell why/how it has happened that everyone enjoys the same rights, attention and privileges in your school.
Student:
There is no way in a public school that everyone is treated equally, every school is known for something their good at. Every school is different; someone treated badly at one school may be popular and hot at the next.
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Class assignment
Date: Oct 14th, 2006 6:28:26 am - Subscribe
Mood: preppy
An interview with a High School student and the responses given.
Q.: Have you ever been treated differently at school because of the color of your skin, the amount of money your parents make, your gender, a disability you have or anything else?
A: “Yes, the way I dress effects the way other students treat me I learned that the more professional (preppy) you are the better you are treated. To other student the preppier you look means the more money you have and the better you are accepted.”
Q: If you haven’t been treated differently due to those items, do you know someone who has?
A: “Yes, many of my past friends have been singled out due to appearance, the way they wear their hair, or the color of their skin affected who they are and who they now hang out with.”
Q: Tell what happened when you or someone else was mistreated.
A. “When my past friends were mistreated they would build up anger towards others that resulted in violence such as fights or vandalism of property.”
Q: What, if anything, did someone at the school do about the situation?
A: “Administrative assistance took it upon them to punish the kids. However they did not look at it through the eyes of the students, they did not try to understand what went on for those results (fights or vandalism) to occur. They saw it as they did something wrong, no matter what had happened they were punished without the administrative staff fully understanding the situation.”
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Class Assignment
Date: Oct 14th, 2006 6:23:47 am - Subscribe
Mood: preppy
The following interview are the responses from a Jr. in High School.
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