Some research indicates that immigrant students who have been subjected to traditional Bi-Lingual Education often find that they are well behind the performance of other students in academic subjects once the students are finally "main streamed" into English-only classrooms.
Critics have called Bi-Lingual Education "racial segregation" and compare putting immigrant students into non-English speaking classes to the outlawed practice of putting blacks into black-only classes.
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MSTaylorQ#1, pg 271
We also have to observe that new diverse nationalities, just don't carry their tired backs nor their baggage of any form, but also they bring in their life's functional/operation mode and influences. Teachers are faced with serious challenges. However, parents play distinctive roles in helping 'baby' correspond to the norms and expectations they will encounter in the mainstream of the United States of America. I for one, was my children's home-mentor when they first got here from the Far East. It is amazing how they quickly caught up with the school, their classmates, and even the football team and the local girl-scouts.
The diverse cultures in the US can adapt to the mainstream sophistication through education (the teacher, the parents, the media) and exposure to the arts; thus, these children are learning a new skill and advancing their respective interests (like my son as he joined the school's football team right on the very first year of contact USA), yet maintain their diverse flavors or uniqueness.
Some of these children may be limited in their ESL, but in the long run exceeds the academic norms of locals from advantaged environments. Indeed, this is where cooperative learning takes center-stage at school; and at home with guardians/helping-hands organizations/ mentors.
As a teacher, "your aim is not to develop a different curriculum for each group of students – rather your curriculum should increase student's awareness and appreciation of the diversity in US cultures (272). Again, teachers have to teach all children their worth.
One sure thing, no two students are alike in their learning styles. As a teacher, I have to be aware that students progress differently through the stages of cognitive, social, moral and emotional development. Most importantly, I have to be more aware of the subject, and to become more an intentional and/or effective teacher; and, that takes practice and lots of tenacious endeavor. I have to teach myself, too. More like run or monitor a check list so often. I once observed a local elementary school teacher, and I asked her about how all children in her class seems to get along just wonderfully. She smiled so brightly and told me: "In my classroom there's no word like 'disability' or 'special learners'." I strongly believe, as to this teacher and advocates of inclusive education that focusing on this facet of teaching will benefit all learners. Indeed, as a teacher I have to be equally alert with the school's personel, the social worker, the special education facilitator, and even the parents – for students who exhibit any behavioral characteristics, and so to early identify any learning disabilities. (pg 306)
TAYLOR, MARITESS S
4/25/2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&feature=related
Respond to the clip. How do you think this will impact you as a teacher in the future
Learning with technology: Response to SZAFRANSKI, JENNIFER L
4/25/2009
Just as our colleague, Jennifer LS was commenting about that even though we are in the digitized age and we are quite proficient with programs and other technological gadgets, we are to remind ourselves that they are just gadgets, and that the Intentional Teacher of the future has to balance her instructions with what is new and what is traditional.
I've visited an elementary school where my friend teaches 5th grade. She shown me an array of computers by the main corridor; but, she professed that her school does not put a lot of importance on technology. Rather, the school highly emphasizes on lesson quality presentation with clarity/substance, and scaffolding the students with Peer associated cooperative learning with-in and in-between ability groups. It seems like the children (including exceptional children in the room which I can't even tell the difference, from the rest of the class) are excited reading the book for the day in pairs;
Maybe, with the availability of technological devices, it's very easy to create teacher's NoticeBoard, with the aid of the curser you can just click where it says "Build a Wall" and you'll see a new wall with other options to complete it. Nonetheless, teaching children to use their hands/ their senses to build a Giant Ship Collage made by: sticking cloth, pieces of paper, cut-up photographs, used buttons, ribbons, other objects; and making a journal/snapshots/drama & narrative afterwards - – is one therapeutic experience and learned attachment that the children will benefit in their socio-emotional development for a lifetime. Indeed, computers cannot replace the children's "I feel it, cuz I made it" Aha!- moments.
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SZAFRANSKI, JENNIFER L
4/25/2009
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Are you ready for Education in the Future?
I hope I am ready for the education of the future. I feel there needs to be a strong balance between technology in education and the traditions of the past. I grew up at a perfect time when technology was just apprearing more strongly in the education system. It was by no means even close to what it is today but I did have many technological opportunities while I was still in high school. I am one of the lucky people who has a good balance of the two. I am very fluent with the computer but also feel that there is so much more to life than sitting in front of a digital machine. I hope the students I teach will understand the importance of both and I hope that our school systems stay true to both extremes.
I like that education is turning more toward new technologies every year and am excited to be able to integrate these into my classroom.
Posting # 3 Tell Me Something New "In the Shadow of the Strip"
Argue in favor of:
In the short story "You Saw Me Crying in the Chapel", a familiar line pricked my consciousness in the same way Virginia resented the clerk's reception towards her. Let us take a glimpse at this event: the store's clerk dressed in stern lines [132] asked Virginia "Is there something you would like to buy?"[133]. This excerpt from the story suggested a condescending tone in the way the shop's clerk approached the pregnant Virginia regardless of how the latter looked or dressed. The clerk was rude and lacked the appropriate mission statement. Similarly, such a rude reception was no different from my own shopping experiences in some of the stores in Las Vegas. Like Virginia, I want the clerk to let me know what I need to know, and when I need to know it. In the same manner, I totally feel uncomfortable when a store clerk follows me around.
On the other hand, equally delightful was the short story "Bowling with the Christ Child" by Dayvid Figler (even his name sounds funny). Figler's short story got me off with rollicking and hilarious laughter. This literary work certainly loose me up quite a bit and was a joy-read. I certainly snuggled in with-the-groove and I felt funny tears running down my cheeks. Consequently, I've come across characters similar to some of the characters illustrated in Figler's short story: i.e., folks looking like Sean Penn and their blonde or blonde-looking spouses. On a closer look, some of these blondes appear to represent as close-encounters of Viking-Bruhildas' minus the long braids. Toss in silk nails and baseball caps and you get a pass of Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears look-alike. If you want to laugh, read these stories repeatedly and keep the book! Sequentially, I couldn't agree more regarding the "Christ Child's Name". It is one eponym spoken and breathed out too often. This Name represents a kind of exhilaration one could pair with: folks' first/last names, reverent as an epithet, screamed out loud in jubilation, at birth times, loosing a car/house title at a craps table and etc.. Likewise, most folks will agree that this particular Name could pose as an allegory, as to shock, death, joy, or even orgasm.
"I like words. I use them".
Maritess S. Taylor, College of Southern Nevada
Answer the Discussion Board question and respond to one of your classmate's postings.
Focus Questions
This chapter aims to help you answer the following questions:
My Philosophy of Education is:
I teach for passion, yet thinking critically and taking time to reflect take a high priority in the day's itinerary. I will extend care one on one. My welcome mat is an open-door policy with appointment slips of first come first served basis. You know your turn is up when a brilliant-colored Giant Sail (the class Icon) unfolds in front of you: Common In, Let's Go Sailing!
I uphold a peer-oriented classroom. The class's Peers is to classroom, as the President's cabinet members is to the Oval Office. Students will know if the follow the Class Giants they too are in the process of becoming one. I am catalyst. I care for people of all sorts. I am always curious, always want to know why children/folks/things/ do what they do; yet, help them appreciated their own competence and my own as well. Worry has no place in my world. Work will. How I support my students is what will make my day as a teacher. In return, my students will support the teacher! Moreover, education is not just a privilege; to me it is a birthright! I put a greater emphasis with parents participation. Parents will play major role in bringing up "baby". Parents will go in sync together with teacher's Efficacy - inseperably.
We are The Hybrid generation in a digital driven world. However, we will start class even under the Sycamore tree! We will keep on trying relentlessly until all students succeed. Somewhere, some persistent work, and/or some neo teachers' practices will push a lily out of a cobblestone at any kind of weather.
Maritess S Taylor
College of Southern Nevada
Edu 201 Wyckoff DQ # 2 Chapter 3
How can you develop your educational philosophy?
I am working on becoming as an Intentional teacher.
"when the soul is happy, the soul harvests plenty"
tess
Chapter 6 Discussion posting Massed practice 4/12/09
Massed practice would bring anxiety to most children. Massed practice or some work that are tightly packed together, will not result to retention on newly learned skills; and, does not provide practice, but cram.
The role of distributed practice not only enhances students' learning, it also enhances my own study points or what are Chapter Concepts Study Guides/ Daily Chapter Questions of the course. I highly prefer the distributed practice because, it helps students to map out (like a compass or an itinerary) significant information by utilizing "reviewing and recapitulating" (213). Spaced or distributed practice will provide students a chance to "practice skills learned in one setting at one time and in another setting at a different time (home)" 213. No student can take all that information without practice. Practice will assist perception. Practice will assist students to get a grip on concepts even if it comes around again in a different format. Bottom line is, if we value children's diverse minds, and provide secondary reinforcements or paired association; just like Mrs. Rico telling me what I was very good at in the early grades. Children will feel good about themselves, and homework will get done ahead of time.
Maritess S Taylor, College of Southern Nevada
to reinforce themselves" (Bandura) (151).
CHAPTER 4 and 5 DUE April 8, 2009
220 EDUC T. NORRIS
CHAPTER 5 DP DUE April 8, 2009
220 EDUCATION T. NORRIS
CHAPTER 5 Discussion Board Posting
How do we know what to use to reward student behavior and what is our ultimate goal in using rewards to enhance children's learning?
To act with goal in mind as to what reward to use to student behavior is an essential part of curricula; and, especially students, the teacher, and members of the family are all involved; and, recognized themselves as the Team that created the Reward & Consequences Board of Merits.
If students are encouraged to process their own Behavior Chart with support from teacher and parents in creating the chart, a social theory is formed. Nonetheless, "self-regulated learning (Bandura) that represents a form of cognitive behavior modification", contributes to students the self-concept that is originally formed from experience. Rewards, praise, and "more-enjoyed activities" (151), or what we learn as Extrinsic rein-forcers will result to help weaken the negative behavior; and will enhance children's learning. More so, students "should be taught to have expectations for their own performance and to reinforce themselves" (Bandura) (151). Indeed, I can use this model. Hurray Bandura!
JOURNAL/04/06/09
Maritess Taylor
College of Southern Nevada
Teachers, practicing teachers, as well as students play major roles in classrooms. Change is inevitable and so are perspectives on learning. The structures of educational programs have never been so defined due to the increase, availability, and the assimilation of knowledge of the 21st century. We are THE Hybrid of all generations. Teachers and classrooms can make a presence at any location, at any rate, and speed.
Teacher research is actually done by the teachers. Actual practice takes place in the classroom. So long as research will result to successful strategies, insights, productivity, fun and teamwork; and, also stimulate creativity. Millennial teachers who welcome change will benefit considerably through research as oppose to subjective judgments, personal opinions, using labels and/or stereotypes. Again, teachers may welcome and/or pass such crucial questions on dominant social and cultural issues. Yet, the classrooms of the future will focus on realistic studies to disseminate knowledge. As a result, teacher's research will encourage quality/ lively participation and productivity, not only in our classrooms but also in our homes, our communities, and our nation at large.
Enclosed is a personal favorite a WebJournal by: Gail Ritchie was a K-1 teacher at Kings Park Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She was named Fairfax County Teacher of the Year in 1999-2000.
"My first experience with Teacher Research occurred seven years ago. A colleague and I conducted research about how multiple intelligences theory could impact student learning. We saw effects far beyond those we had read about. That research affected me so profoundly that I now organize my classroom within a multiple intelligences framework. My classroom centers are related to the different intelligences, I teach children to value and respect the "different kinds of smart," and I invite children into the classroom community of learners by "opening windows" (Gardner) to their strengths and interests". gse.gmu.edu/research/tr/
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College of Southern Nevada
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I am working on becoming as an Intentional teacher.
"when the soul is happy, the soul harvests plenty"
tess
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I am working on becoming as an Intentional teacher.
"when the soul is happy, the soul harvests plenty"
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two stages relate more closely to students in school;
these are the stages of Industry vs. Inferiority and Identity vs. Role Confusion.
Explain the conflict that is going on within these two stages and what a teacher needs to do to promote a positive developmental outcome in each of these two stages.
Post a response to this statement and a reflective response to another student's posting.
Each stage is characterized by a psychosocial crisis, which is based on physiological development, but also on demands put on the individual by parents and/or society.
Generally, children come from all sorts of background. Children mirror what is in their environment. Through interaction with family members, peers, the media, game boards, and the community as a whole – they are subject to something (s) external. Whichever or whoever has the strongest hold or influence on the child, surely affects the physiological development of the child. Some folks just stacked their reasoning about these stages as a psychosocial crisis. Erickson theory hit on all three broad and comprehensive factors: the child's personality is affected highly on demands by parents, society, culture and sexuality. From my world view, some adults are quite incomplete in some of these stages; and, considering that folks or some adults stuffed themselves with Tool Kits or Kaboodles to appeased their Identity Crisis; or, do the some make-overs for what they think they lacked with the image they see in the mirror! Regardless if Erickson was lacking statistical data, I would like to promote an Image Enhancer Pod to my students. Creativity completes all living things. How much more children? I would like to reflect on my experience as a young 5th grader regarding inferiority, identity, vs role confusion. One day my home-room teacher got my attention. She bent over at my level and looked me with her large light brown eyes and told me in a clear as a glass voice, that "I know that you are so good with plants because your mom told me that you tend to the home-garden. Since, that is your expertise, I would like you to do special care to our classroom's plants". Indeed, that was one of my most defining moments in my life! My teacher did complete me.
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