Pecha Kecha Link

Pecha Kecha Link
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRgVvBBC8Si0gV7AYY93A0CtqmIGCE7U5YsfFX21UJCCj8gH_iLbqTBkACZ2cmUOwCreG_ANNmzr4Go/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=20000

The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244283/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/10/the-vagina-monologues-college-offensive/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUg85s27uJU

The vagina monologues are a series of speakers talking about their experience with vaginas. Not just their experience with their own vaginas, but all of the ones they come in contact with in the real world around them. 

McIntosh

 The vagina monologues is about women who discover themselves in a way that makes them appreciate themselves and their bodies. I feel that this relates to McIntosh because she used the article that we read to explain how Caucasian people have been conditioned to look past the privileges brought on by their skin color. Many men don't realize that they have privileges brought onto them because of the fact that they have male anatomy.

Delpit

There are many different codes of power in the world. A highly prominent  code of power is men being seen as better than women. Men have always been seen as higher beings where as women have been seen as less than. This has created a stigma about women, their bodies, and their sexuality. Men have often been praised for having sex or for not having sex. Women are more likely to be judged for what they do with their bodies. If they don't have sex they are prudes. If they do have sex they are whores. Based on what they wear they can either be slutty or overly conservative. Many times, no matter what a woman does, they are always in the wrong.

August

Many of those who are a part of the LGBTQ+ community are lacking the support that is necessary for them to be comfortable and confident with how they feel and who they truly are. Many don't have a space where they can talk about the daily struggles they face. August believes that safe spaces should be present and available in schools or other public settings for all that require them. The Vagina Monologues touched on the fact that many of those who told their stories didn't have those safe spaces and explained what they went through without them.

Kliewer

Reflection

Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0bXVmZVR4ODI0RHc/view 

Cheistopher Kliewer

 Much of my experience in a classroom in a play-school, preschool, and two kindergartens involves interaction with students who have IEP's or are often thought of as special education students. I have seen these students across a wide spectrum of severity. The issue in schools that is slowly beginning to get better is that these students weren't really seen as students in the past. They were not seen as fully capable. many didn't give them the ability to show their strengths in a classroom or school setting. Many are put into lower level classes where many aren't even getting the chance to learn basic things. People are afraid that they'll fall behind and will often be a distraction in a regular classroom. The truth is that many of these students actually thrive in regular classrooms. They are given the chance to learn what their peers are learning. This is also a chance for the child to be encouraged by their peers and even for their peers to get a better understanding of others being different for different reasons and for them to know that small differences don't make any less of a regular child. This gives them a great chance to socialize and keep up with others their own skill level. This is what Kliewer emphasized in this article. It is important to listen to these students and understand where they truly fit and thrive in which classrooms. They can accomplish what they set out to do but so many people doubt their abilities and this is a mindset that we need to diminish.

April 8, 2019

I see many children speaking Spanish in the classroom and around the school. I see how many of the students are comfortable with the main teacher and conversing with her in Spanish. She is quite understanding of the fact that some of the students are a bit more comfortable with some certain words in Spanish rather than English. This reminds me of the author Rodriguez. I feel this way because I see how comfortable the teacher in my classroom is with incorporating Spanish words and books into the classroom for the children that happen to speak Spanish. She also does this to show the other children in the classroom that it is normal to use more than just one language in life and to teach them a bit of Spanish.

I was once towards the back of the rug when a child I will call M was acting much better than normal due to the fact that he really wanted to go to the block center which has four available spots. He mentioned to the teacher that he was going to try extra hard to behave because he really wanted to make it to the center before it filled up. He had done well all day and was sitting perfectly still as she started to call out children's names. All four of the first children picked the block center, but none of them were M. Of course he was devastated because he informed the teacher before hand that he was going to be extra good and he followed through so he though that he would be rewarded for his good work but he was not. He then told me that he would go to the art center instead and he continue to sit still, criss-cross-applesauce with his hands folded in his lap but he was again not called on in the time that it took for the art center to fill up. He got annoyed because in that time, two other centers had also filled and he wouldn’t be able to do anything that he wanted to do that day. Even though he was sitting and acting perfectly the teacher made an effort to make him one of the last children called on and I watched her pick his card up and place it deeper in the pile so he would have to wait longer. This ended with him acting out. I have seen this a few other times in very similar situations. This reminded me of Delpit because the teacher taught all of the students the codes of power in the classroom. The students still disobey, however, even when they do follow directions, the teacher only gives some the credit they deserve. ​As a teacher, she should give some power to the obedient students to choose their centers but she only gave this power to some and not all.

One major incident that I've seen in the involving money issues in the school was during center time. I was assisting the art center while child A was attempting to hang his painting on a metal cabinet when he dropped the magnet that he wanted to use. When he pulled the magnet off, he dropped the magnet and the dry painting it was originally holding. They both fell a little to the side of the cabinet that was rather close to the wall. Along the wall was a pipe. Child A knew that he would not be able to reach the paper or the magnet, so he grasped the pipe to used it for balance. I didn’t realize he had grabbed it or that it was a burning hot pipe until he yelped out in pain and started to cry. I went over to see what had happened and he explaned. I touched the pipe to see just how hot it was and it even hurt me. I brought him to the teacher and she thought that he was just making a scene and not that there was really anything wrong until I told her that something was really wrong. This pipe should not have been exposed. It was such a hazard to these children and it had already hurt one of them. Its very disheartening that they didn’t invest in a way to keep this from happening. This reminded me of Kristof. This is because the student went to the appropriate ​person, the main teacher, and she did not listen to him at first. She made an assumption based on his past behaviors rather than listening to him nd looking at the facts in the moment.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EvDl_P4TTNjRsFDPkFNcJRikPvs_4TZXmT-C5xPdqKQ/edit?usp=sharing 

"This American Life"

Reflection

"This American Life"

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-one

This was an interesting podcast explaining the integration process and trials of the Normandy school district. The podcast mainly followed the story of Nedra Martin and her daughter Mah'Ria Pruitt-Martin's story and how they experienced the trials and errors of the integration process in the Normandy district and surrounding districts. The school Mah'Ria was in was in bad condition. The school was on probation. The school was not just on a week long probation. Not a month long probation. The school was on a 15 year long probation. It was not counted as a qualified school for 15 years. After these long 15 years, the district then lost its accreditation from the state entirely. The district let the students transfer to whatever neighboring school they wanted and over 1000 students took this offer. Many of these transfer students excelled in their schools and held honor positions. However, before the students could even enter these schools, they were met with great trials from the parents of the current students at the school. Many parents thought that the new students would drop the rating of the school. They also thought that they would make the school a much more dangerous place. They felt that in order to have these new students, they would need to install metal detectors or hire drug sniffing dogs or other things that would prevent students from bringing bad things into the schools. They said that this was the only way they would let their children continue attending the school. Let me tell you, as a students from a mainly white school district that had a pretty good ranking, there were still a great amount of drugs and dangerous items that entered the school, even without students from lower level schools entering into my district. Honestly, I don't think that any extra students would have made the district any worse than it already was. In the podcast they mentioned that the government then took over and changed the Normandy district all together and made it into an non-accredited district so that they could get away with keeping children in this awful district. Those that stayed in this district did not get the chance they deserved and fell behind, all because the government didn't want to spend a little bit more money on the education budget.

"In the Service of What?"

 Reflection

 "In the Service of What?"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0Uk96Z2g3NDI2bkU/view 

Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer

 In this article I am getting that many political leaders are trying to change schools into teaching the kids how to better the country in the future without teaching them about the issues in the world outside of school. Many in society feel that the schools should open the classrooms to only specific issues that the world is facing. Many believe that the children are too young or innocent to be exposed to specific issues and not others even though the children are already being exposed to these issues. They feel that the children will nit understand these issues or they don't want the children to understand. In reality, many children are already being exposed to these issues and will continue being exposed to them due to where the live or due to their families. Many political leaders don't understand that these children are already living in and are experiencing these issues that they are hiding them from. I feel that these children should be exposed to these issues reasonably. We should not just dump these issues onto them and bombard them or just completely avoid the issues in total. We should expose everyone to these issues in a way where they feel comfortable and where their opinions are being understood and listened to. So many children are being exposed to different issues at an early time in their lives and they don't have a safe and comfortable space to express their feelings about what they are going through, but they don't. The school system is pushing the children away from these issues.

"Safe Spaces"

 Reflection

"Safe Spaces"

Gerri August

"Safe Spaces" is an article written by Gerri August about LGBTQ+ problem regarding safe spaces in schools. This is something that effects myself and also many of my friends because I am a part of the community and so is many of my friends. I have seen many people who I am close to that are struggling with both being home at being at school. It is a struggle for them to be accepted by their family and even some of their friends. One of my close friends has made strides in their female to male transition and are becoming greatly open with who they truly are. I'll call them C. I couldn't be more proud of C, but I see the struggle that he is going through. He is one of three children, the others of which are both female. I am close with his family and I see the truth behind the happy family. His mother is having a bit of trouble changing the pronouns and getting used to having a son but she is really trying to make him feel as comfortable as possible. His father and older sister are other issues. His father uses religion as a backing mechanism to defend his disapproval of C's choices. He believes that however you are at birth is how you should remain. C's older sister just completely disapproves. She calls C by the wrong pronouns and ridicules him. I happened to play a sport with his sister and I would often hear her talking about him in a way that made me very angry. I would try to talk to her about it but she would either not listen or just walk away. At school, C has many friends that are comfortable with his transition but there are random people in the school that do not understand what he is going through, but many just go with the flow of what C wants to be known as but there will always be a few people we encounter around the school that really don't understand and don't want to understand how he is feeling and why he has transitioned.  Many from older generations make jokes about safe spaces because they don't understand why they are so important. I believe that safe spaces in schools are really important for those who don't have other spaces in their lives. These safe spaces, including the simple ones like a supportive teachers classroom, can save lives. Theses spaces give anyone who needs it a place to be themselves and to give them support and give them the home and family that they may be lacking. Safe spaces save lives.