Student-+Jackie


 * Research Assignment **
 * The View outside the Classroom: Poverty**

Poverty and education is a very heavy correlated subject. People who have a low socioeconomic status struggle with many things, including their child’s education. They may not have the resources to give to their children that they need for school. Parents work schedules may hinder a good parent teacher relationship. A good point made by Klien, was that teachers need to stop blaming a child’s poor achievement on their environment and parents and need to think of new ways that they can better educate their own students.

Poverty can be interrelated with:  illiteracy  homelessness  runaways  AIDS (chronic/terminally ill children)  teen pregnancy  teen suicide  school violence  bullying  gangs  abuse  drug abuse  self-abusive behavior

All of these effect the education of students. This is why poverty is a big problem which Americans need to face, if we ever want the circle to stop.


 * Statistics about children who experience poverty:**

· One in five American Children are living in poverty (Out of these children 33% are black and 29% are Hispanic) · 1.3 Million Children have fallen into poverty since 2000. · One Million children in the past year have experienced homelessness. · On third of these low economic status students drop out of high school. ( 20% out of high school and 10% of out of middle school) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Suicides in these students are 15-25% tripled.

//Culture of the Community// //Culture of Poverty// Culture of poverty is really not a culture at all. It is just a group of people making an effort to keep them alive. Children are mostly affected by poverty. These children often fall into the vicarious circle and live in poverty most or all of their adult lives. This is because during their schooling years they do not have the adequate resources do well in school. //No Child Left Behind (2001) & Individuals with Disabilities Act (2004)// insures that all students will receive equal education. But it is our job as a community to make sure these children have the ability to receive the resources. So they can make a break from the circle.

//School Culture//

//No Child Left Behind (2001) & Individuals with Disabilities Act (2004)// “Is to see every child in America-regardless of ethnicity, income or background-achieve high standards” These acts were passed that every child here in America is give the opportunity to receive and education. However there is still much debate over how this is going too obtained why children who live under the poverty level can achieve those goals. Many critics believe that before we can improve our education system we must fix the amount of people who live in poverty every day in America. These acts gave guidelines which structured content, methods of teaching and the overall education of teachers in the classroom.

The most important focus is on parents and teachers accountability. Accountability of a parent is very hard to judge because every family situation is different. In the article __The Question of Class__ it discusses how teachers blamed parents for the child’s low achievement, even suggesting that they did not attend yearly parent/teacher meetings as part to blame. Yet teachers should not be able to blame the parents. Some children who come from families with a low socioeconomic status have parents who work multiple jobs and may not be able to attend these meetings. Or the child must do their homework themselves because they are working to make an honest living.

Poverty dramatically affects education and the school. Schools are evaluated yearly and are assigned an AYP which their Annual Yearly Progress. This measures how many children that year had achieved score above the proficient level. Schools that are in a low SES community have a tendency to do poor in these tests. The No Child Left behind act was built to help focus and meet educational needs of the children for the school.

//Classroom Culture//

//Accountability Reform –//“Schools are held accountable for the quality and proficient outcomes for all students.” Teachers in low income minority schools would bear the brunt of the effect of the accountability reform. It was believed that this would cause a dramatic decrease in instructional quality but would cause an increase in achievement. These teachers would then need additional teacher development with more state mandated testing. This reform is an attempt to help teachers and parents work together. However with parents work schedules that may not always be able to work. So teachers and parents must develop new ways to be able to help their students. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> = Bibliography  = // Cuthrell, K., Stapleton, J., & Ledford, C. (2010). Examining the Culture of Poverty: Promising // // Practices. Preventing School Failure, 54 (2), 104-110. Retrieved from Academic Search // // Premier database. //

//<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msonoproof: yes;">Gamoran, A. (2007). Standards-Based Reform and The Poverty Gap: Lesson for No Child Left // //<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Behind. ////<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Washington DC : Brooking Institution Press. //

// Gorski, P. (2007). THE QUESTION OF CLASS. Education Digest, 73 (2), 30-33. Retrieved from // // Academic Search Premier database. //

//<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Hayes, W. (2008). No Child Left Behind: Past, Present, Future. United Kingdom: Rowman & // //<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> Littlefield Education Publish Group. //

// Klein, J. (2009). Public Schools and the Excuse Culture. U.S. News & World Report, 146 (4), // // 88- 87. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. //

REALLY GOOD JOB! ALL POINTS EARNED FOR THE ASSIGNMENT

<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 8<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt;">

<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">**A family literacy program has many benefits for families who speak English as a second language. In this program, parents visit the school regularly to participate in activities of their children's choosing. As you watch this video clip, note the ways you can involve parents who speak English as a second language.** A family literacy program involves children and parents with direct activities that the students have selected to share with their parents. These activities include homework, board games, sports, computer activities and arts and crafts. This helps benefit parents who speak English as a second language because it shows the parents what the child has been doing in school. It also provides parent/child time which is very beneficial for a child’s learning. Parents can also help reinforce what is being taught in the classroom at home. <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * Activity # 1 **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The child in most cases does better in school when a parent is involved in their schooling. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Parents are more likely to reinforce material and behaviors from school if they are aware of them. <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">When parents are involved they feel more comfortable knowing what their child is learning. <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-size: 10.8pt; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Parents who speak English as a second language have a difficulty in participating in school activities. This is because of the language barrier it makes it hard to help their son or daughter either because the language barrier does not allow them to help their student. ESL parents may also feel uncomfortable in a school setting because they do not understand what is going on <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Name three positive outcomes that occur when parents are involved in their child’s education. **<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Why is it sometimes difficult to get parents who speak English as a second language, or not at all, to become involved in school activities? **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Reflect upon how having parents volunteer in the classroom benefits the teacher, students, and parent. ** <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Having the student’s parents in the classroom can be a very important aspect to include in a classroom. Regardless of their role in the classroom it is an extra set of hands, eyes and ears to help the teachers during their daily routine. I also feel the PTA meetings that the teacher talked about are also very beneficial to the school. It informs the parents of their child’s education as well as gives them an outlet to voice their opinions, ideas or concerns. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">This teacher involves parents by assigning one parent as the classroom coordinator and they help organize and assign other parents to volunteer as the wish in their child’s classroom. They are usually given free range on what they wish to help with. As shown one mom came in the classroom to help the students during their reading/writing lessons and helped the students work with each other. As well as helping other students with pronunciation of their spelling words. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Activity # 2 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">How does this teacher involve parents in the educational process? **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">How do the students, the teacher, and the parent each benefit from this kind of classroom interaction? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt; msoansilanguage: EN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Students and parents benefit from this because the parent becomes one more person that can help them during their day. Also it helps connect parents and students in their involvement of their student’s education. I know when my mom came into help I thought they were the best school days. Overall I feel that parent volunteers are a great aspect to include in the teaching process.

For teachers, it must be a tremendous help. Not only are they getting an extra hand with twenty students they may be able to do something now that they weren’t able to if another adult wasn’t present.

Overall, I feel this would definitely benefit all three parents, students and teachers and should be introduced in other schools as a alternative form of classroom management.

WELL DONE! 5/5 POINTS EARNED <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 7<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">. ****<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Both students in this episode understand some of the strategies people employ for dealing with various emotions. What term did Vygotsky use to explain these strategies which make daily living easier? ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt;">//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Zone of Proximal Development- // <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> What a learner can do with help and what a learner cannot do without help. They model adult examples for guidance and help.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Students are aware of when they need help with certain situations. In this vignette two students are interviewed about how students handle situations when they are angry and when they are sad. The girl is in middle school and the boy is in high school. Even thought they are developmentally different they both can differentiate when they need help and when they do not.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">The girl and the boy both knew that students did not need help when they were happy. They knew how to handle that situation and did not need to look for adults for advice for what to do. However both the boy and the girl new when a student was either sad or angry that it was best that they should ask someone for help or advice. The young girl mainly focused on asking teachers, parents or counselors. While the older student focused on his teachers mostly however he was more inclined to also seek the advice of his friends. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">There are some benefits to conflict when you are at a young age because it teaches you how to react to the same or similar situations as you get older. When you look to teachers and parents it models what we are supposed to do. This is what Vygotsky meant by knowing what you know. The students need help to learn how to interact with people in these situations.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">2. While anger is seen as a problem for these and other adolescents, it does serve a purpose. How would you explain the benefits of conflict to these two students? **

I feel that even though this is necessary for children to learn how to resolve conflicts throughout their lifetime, however, I believe too much of something is never a good thing. So if a child is constantly fighting with people or sad that something needs to be done and not taken lightly. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Children’s learning is greatly affected by their emotions. If a child is thinking about what happened during recess or that they are going to get in trouble at home. Children are more likely to pay attention to that then their lesson being taught by the teacher.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">3. How do student’s emotions impact their learning? **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.15pt; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Just as adults are easily distracted by their emotions, it not only affects your mood but what you are doing that very moment. I know when something is bothering it is very hard to focus on what you are doing. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

=Jackie, once again your activites have earned all points possible (5/5 for each). Well done and insightful.= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 6 **__ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Activity # 1 ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 99%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">** Consider: Logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. What type of classroom will you be most comfortable in? **

I believe I would feel most comfortable in a classroom based on Realism. I like a realist approach because it deals with critical thinking, taking a problem and taking the necessary strategies to solve it. I feel this maintains the reality of society and that wither or not humans exist life does go on.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> I like that these philosophers understand that even though someone is not there to witness an event it still has occurred. I also agree with the science bases of the theory. That people use the scientific method of asking a question, forming a hypothesis, and getting results. The results are then compared to your hypothesis to see if you need to reevaluate your beliefs. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Activity # 2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; mso-tab-count: 1; msotabcount: 1;">  ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Summarize Joyce Madsen's philosophy of education in one sentence. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Joyce Madsen’s philosophy of education is that children should be able to work at their own developmental level to appeal to their individual needs. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Leonia Townsend’s philosophy of education is that students should be lifelong learners, they should become independent learners and it will prepare them to be successful in high school and the rest of their careers. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Lynda Hootman’s philosophy of education is that as long as students are given direction and guidance they should be allowed to choose what they would like to learn about. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Trent Eaton’s philosophy of education is that students will learn more if they have the options to learn what they want and as long as he is there to help them individually they will benefit more than the whole class participation, like one on one time. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homework **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Summarize Leonia Townsend's philosophy of education in one sentence. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Summarize Lynda Hootman's philosophy of education in one sentence. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">S ummarize Trent Eaton's philosophy of education in one sentence. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Activity #4 5/5/ POINTS EARNED ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I decided to choose teaching because I love children! I think they have the best personalities and they tell you how it is. I always wanted to be a teacher but changed my mind when I entered college. However, I realized halfway through that I was in the wrong field for me and came back to what I always wanted to do and that is to teach. When I teach I really want to introduce many topics to students and open to horizons which they may never have thought or experience. I would love to finish my masters and have a certification in special education which is really what I would like to have my main focus on and to become more educated on better ways of providing efficient teaching for my future students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Think about your reasons for choosing teaching as a career. How do your reasons for teaching relate to your overall philosophy of education? ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">

I love school and I like that high school and college offers you independence to choose your classes. And I want my student to have the same compassion for school as I do and not see it as a chore. However, I feel in elementary school you still need a more focused areas of study that all children need to learn, as the fundamentals that you will build on once you reach the high school level. I feel that you should teach these in various ways that relate to children in an individual level so they too can still enjoy what is being taught even though it may not be exactly what they wanted to learn that day. I overall just want children to be provided with as many experiences, and tools that will help them become better learners. Possibly teach them a few things I feel that if early on if I would have known it would have benefited me drastically.

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=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">__Good job! 10/10 for both activity 1 and 2__ = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**__ Chapter 5 __** =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Activity #1 = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Reflective question: If you had an opportunity to visit another country’s school system, where would you like to go and what would you like to learn? = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> = <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">If I was given the opportunity to visit another country’s school system I would love to explore China. There are one of the leading countries in technologies and have some of the highest achieving students in both math and sciences.I would like to learn about the foundations of their classrooms and their goals. I would like to see how they approach teaching to their students and compare their teaching skills to ours in the United States. I would also like to know if they offer equal classes for both men and women.Given that they are not very diverse as a culture like the United States I would like to see how the accommodate students who have other cultural beliefs. Since china is a communist country I also feel that would bring a very different aspect to their teaching system.Overall, I feel that their culture is very different to the European model that the United States follows and would be very interesting to see what they believe is important. =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> = =<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Activity # 2 = = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Read the article and answer the following questions: What should students know about the world? What changes do schools need to make improvement in the area of student's global knowledge? = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I believe that students should become educated in global education. I feel that children would benefit from learning about several cultures and would educate them to our very diverse society. I agree that these studies should be incorporated with the students other studies starting when they begin to learn US history. Many children in the United States have a poor content knowledge of geography. Many children can identify the US states and capitals but when the focused is moved to other parts of the world there knowledge of these areas are very weak. I would also like to incorporate a second language in addition to learning English during the early education classes, as early as kindergarten. Research shows that children can absorb much more at a young age and what better of opportunity to teach them both languages. I wish this was available when I was in school then. =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Homework = =**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">10/10 points **=

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">** Activity # 4 ** The Parkway High School in Philadelphia is revolutionary in their efforts and success of creating an atmosphere of justice and peace which results in high performance of its students. The school is in a city setting where violence and drugs are prevalent in that area and was affecting the student’s performance rates. The school has two main themes which they are focused on peace and social justice. The schools motto is decrease violence, advance justice, work with people of different backgrounds and help create a culture of peace. Parkway focuses on four dimensions: remaking school culture, learning to reflect and lead, integrating social responsibility themes into academics, and promote service. These values and practices are integrated in the student’s lessons and schedules. As a result the school saw a dramatic improvement. Improvements included a rise in test scores, suspensions and fights decreased, attendance to classes rose and graduation rate increased by 100% percent and many of students were accepted into college and universities.

I feel that the Parkway High School is a great model that other Philadelphia High Schools should follow. I feel this is a reflection of working with the seven cardinal principles discussed earlier in our chapters. This gets the students ready to work in the real world, using conflict resolution classes that they attended. In addition the students have given back to the community donating over 60 hours per student over their four year period, giving them experience working with others in a team. The most important aspect of this change is that the student’s graduation rate increased 100% and more than half went to college. I feel that is the most valuable improvement because the students now have a vast opportunity that if they attended another high school they may have taken a different path.

=__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">10/4/09 Chapter 4 class/home assignment Great Job! You included a great deal of information and have a good understanding of a very important event in the history of American education. Well done! - Dr. Williams 10/10 points __= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">__Chapter 4__ **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Activity #1 ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The result of Plessy vs. Ferguson was that even though students were separated they are still considered equal.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Brown vs. the Board of Education **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson? **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The result of Brown vs. Board of Education was that being separated is not equal. Students should have the right to attend a school regardless of their race or nationality. After this all students were welcome in classrooms.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What was the result of Brown vs. Board of Education? **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">As a result of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education they dramatically shaped our education policies today. If it were not for the fights and struggles of Brown students today may still be segregated and seen as equal. For our nation to be considered an equal nation for all, that should include equal education. I feel now that our nation has the opportunity to education all people regardless of race, class or gender.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">3. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> How did the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education shape today’s educational policies? **


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">4. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Explain the following terms and practices, and describe how they impacted education in the 1950s and beyond: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Segregation **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Is <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">act or practice of segregating. This term was heavily used in the 1950’s in discussion of education. The education movements discussed wither or not segregation of classrooms was equal or not equal. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Separate-but-equal: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Systems of [|segregation] giving different "colored only" facilities or services for blacks, with the declaration that the quality of each group's public facilities were (supposedly) to remain equal. This <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">was a result of Plessy vs. Ferguson that separate but equal was the first movement
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Busing and Integration: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Is the practice of attempting to integrate schools by assigning students to schools based primarily on race, rather than geographic proximity. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> The United States are no longer allowed to segregate children by race on buses or children who are physically and mentally disabled. Busing also contributed to the desegregation of schools, even though they were being bused an hour away and not going to the local school. Busing made sure there was an equal amount of students of each race within a school.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Resegregation **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">When intrusive, race-based, federally-imposed controls are removed (most frequently through lawsuits), then school admissions, employer hiring, and housing patterns are once again freely determined by democratic citizen choice. (1) Citizens choose to live in neighborhoods, and send their kids to nearby schools for which their real estate tax dollars are paying; and/or (2) Employers once again begin to hire and promote employees based on skills and qualifications without regard to their race or gender. In other words it means <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">is the re-segregation of schools after they have already been desegregated.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">De facto segregation: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">segregation (especially in schools) that happens in fact although not required by law. An example of this is often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black, or segregated in fact ( [|de facto] ), although not by law ( [|de jure] ). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">** Activity #2 ** ** Culturally Responsive Teaching ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. In a classroom, teachers will encounter diversity in terms of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation, and geographical area. What two areas of diversity are encountered in this elementary school with regard to the student? Include ways that the school has made adaptations in (1) the environment and (2) instruction to meet both of the special needs of the student. Explain why these adaptations are necessary and the impact on the student, the classmates, and the school. ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">

There are two areas in which the student experiences diversity in her school setting. The first area is her religious beliefs and the second area is exceptionalities. From their descriptions it seems that this student is of a Muslim decent which requires her to follow certain rules that are not normal to our customs or considered exceptionalities.

The school she attended was very accommodating to the student. In her culture Allah is who they seek for answers and guidance. In the students case her mother believed that Allah had sent her to make sure her daughter went to that school, regardless if it was in their neighborhood or that the school at that time were not taking applications in the school at that time. However, the school was very willing to help and allowed her to go to that school.

Next, the school also helped with her surroundings and environment. In her culture the student is not allowed to have a male teacher, stand next to a male student or participate in a music class, the school made sure that all of her teachers were female. When they made seating arrangements they made sure not to sit her with male students. And during music class she was to go to library instead. These also met some of the needs the student had because of her cultural background.

These exceptions needed to be made so the student could go to school and still follow the rules which are instituted by her beliefs. It helps makes students comfortable in their surroundings at school, as well as it helps them concentrate better in school. It impacts the student because they can focus on their work and not if they are breaking a rule and what the consequences are. Her fellow classmates can learn from her culture and beliefs and get a better understanding of diversity is at such a young age. The school learns a great deal of knowledge from this experience. They can now learn to accommodate other students with different needs like the student. It is a great tool for schools to become culturally competent and see that there are other cultures then ourselves that are also equally important and school be accommodated as well.

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 * Reflection on “Recreating School for All Children”**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Recreating Schools for All Children” was written by John Morefield. He is a principle of the Hawthorne Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. He created this school in attempts to provide equal education for all students. In this article Morefield discusses how education today is still designed for children to be educated unequally. For children to be equally educated schools communities need to change their dynamics and programs to implement skills that will benefit all students. Morefield strongly suggest for us to be able to make such change we need to turn away from our Northern European cultural value system and convert to a dominant culture system of African Americans, Native Americans and Latino people which is cooperation and relationship. I feel Morefield, believes that this has been and problem for many decades and that it will be very hard for any changed especially this drastic to occur.

Morefield shows most importantly how our education system is set up for the education of white people, and does not accommodate those of a minority or low socioeconomic status. The Northern European cultural beliefs is that education should be based on the individual, and the main focus is “I”. While in school students only look for how well they did and do not considered other students and how well they did. This is significantly different from the African Americans, Native Americans and Latino people, who believe in cooperation and working together. Their main focus is on “we”.

Morefield also explains that from the beginning of our history schools were not made to educate everyone. It was only for those children who were white and wealthy. Minorities and poor white children were assumed to work on a farm or factories and did not require an education. These children only needed enough education so they were able to read and do work either on the farm or the factory. Even after the revolution our foundations of education never changed.

Morefield’s goal was to be able to create a school that was based on working in teams, cooperation and relationships instead of the individual, because in many studies he found that minority students performed more efficiently with these concepts as the framework of schooling and seen that white children could perform equally as well. Unlike the framework in the Northern European model children of a minority and low socioeconomic status were unable to compete or do well in.

The twelve characteristics of the school were: strong leadership, unity of purpose, a total school environment of pervasive caring and nurturing, all adults are responsible for all children, discipline, high expectations for all children, teaching is a calling or vocation, multicultural curriculum, outstanding instruction purpose, belief of important role of parent, effective mental health approach and safe, clean, and aesthetically pleasing school environments.

As evidence of a successful school I feel Morefield is correct that we do need to alter our classroom, but I disagree about how we should approach this. I feel we should keep the Northern European model because I feel it is important for the individual to learn. However, I do think we should incorporate in our lessons activities and discussions that promote teamwork, cooperation and relationships. I think other schools would be more open to the idea if it was a change in format and not the entire foundation and would be more likely to implement it in their classrooms.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most importantly I believe all children should have the equal right to and education, but it is a large puzzle that must have all of the pieces working together: government, state, school, parents and the student. Regardless of efforts if these groups are not working in unison then the system will be expected to fail. I think that if we incorporate Morefield’s twelve characteristics children’s opportunity to learn and grow regardless of which model we follow. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">