How A Sanctuary for Self-Expression can Change Lives

 

    In the video, Reed talked about her experience as a trans woman. Her parents were on her side throughout the whole process which made her more confident throughout everything. She went to a camp with feminine presenting children to learned to be more comfortable with herself. Her parents let her get work done so she can feel like a woman which helped her a lot because other mothers would make their daughter wait until they're 18 to get any work done. This can make them feel trapped in a body that they feel isn't theirs. The mother that was on the stage was telling people how to support your children throughout this. She brought her son to meetings so he can learn how to become comfortable and also helped him throughout the process.

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    The video argues about how you have to talk about people with their preferred pronouns. The person in the video reads a book. The book goes through the alphabet and says the kids name, their pronouns, and something they like to do. For example, "Kelly can kick super high. His heart lives in the sky." The person in the video says how even though Kelly looks like a girl, he likes using he/him pronouns. Ki says how this might be confusing to younger kids but tries to explain it to them. Some other pronouns she talks about is "tree, she, him, they, ze, and all pronouns". The whole video, Ki is talking at a high pitch voice to keep the kindergarteners engaged. She also says questions to the kids for them to answer. 

    I disagree with this video. Students at this age should not be informed with this confusing information. It's very damaging to the students. I talked to my mother about this video because she used to teach kindergarten, and she told me how her students didn't even know the difference between a boy and a girl. They would call their boy classmates "she" and girl classmates "he". Throwing different pronounces at them like "they, zi, and tree" will just confuse them instead of helping them. Kids at this age like to follow trends of what people are doing. This video can severally confuse them to think that they want to go by something that they don't know anything about. Topics like this are too complex for this age group. We should leave that up to them to discover at a different stage of their life. Kids shouldn't have to deal with this stress about what they identify as. Teaching this to students can also cause a lot of controversy. Parents might not agree on issues like this which can cause you, as the teacher, to get in a lot of trouble as well as the school itself. Students should be able to explore topics like this on their own time once they grow up to understand stuff like this more. 

Blog #9

1st Quote:

"Pennys Early instinctual reaction to the negative assumptions held by many of the service providers she encountered led her to seek the advice of adults with disabilities."

Instead of giving up after these encounters, she decided to go to those who had firsthand knowledge of similar challenges relating to her. This shows how sometimes, when trying to seek advice from service providers, it can be negative and going to get advice from people who are experiencing similar problems to you might be the best option.

2nd Quote: 

"Ableist assumptions become dysfunctional when the educational and developmental services provided to disabled children focus inordinately on the characteristics of their disability to the exclusion of all else, when changing disability becomes the overriding focus of service providers and, at times, parents."

When people focus too much on a student's disability rather than them as a person, it can become harmful. If their main goal is to "fix" or change the disability, rather than supporting the child's overall growth, they may unintentionally limit the child's potential. People may focus too much on what they see as a "problem" instead of the child's personality as a whole. this can cause the child to think their disability is the only thing that defines them.

3rd Quote:

"The Court decided that a deaf girl who was integrated into a regular class was not entitled to a sign language interpreter because she was “receiving benefit” — that is, she was passing."

This shows how unfair the court can be at times. She can sometimes read her teachers lips and understand what's going on. This isn't fair to the student as well as the teacher. The other students in the classroom are ahead of her because they can fully understand what's going on in their classroom.

These three quotes show how disabled people are affected negatively. These quotes emphasize the need for a more inclusive and equitable approach to disability rights and education. It's important to acknowledge someone's disability, but you should also look at other aspect on their life and not primarily focus on that.

Blog #8

 

Quote 1:

"In an instant, they agreed to give up the language (the sounds) that had revealed and accentuated our family's closeness."

This quote is telling how the church asked them to have their children speak English at home. They complied and are now giving up their family's language because of the church. I don't believe that anyone should have a say in what happens within someone's household other than the parents.

Quote 2:

"The family's quiet was partly due to the fact that, as we children learned more and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents."

This quote is saying how now that they've all learned English, they're interacting with people in their classes and neighbor hoods so they're never really at home. This caused the family to become more distant and not communicate with their family as often.

Quote 3: 

"I would have been happier about my public success had I not sometimes recalled what it had been like earlier, when my family had conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sounds."

Although they've successfully learned English, it doesn't make them integrally happy. They loved how their life was before and it didn't need any fixing. Now that the Church forced them to learn English, they're not a intimate family anymore.

These quotes make me feel empathy towards the family's journey. They got pressured into learning a new langue by the church which caused their family to become more distant from one another. It broke down their culture and family language that now they don't even feel comfortable calling their parents the same name that they used to refer to them as.

Blog #7

 

            Literacy with an Attitude by Patrick Finn

        Quote #1:

"After the printing press was invented, literacy among the masses was viewed with fear and trembling among the ruling classes of Europe."(chapter 1, pg. 2)

I think this quote is important because it showed how they feared that widespread literacy would empower citizens with knowledge and challenging their authority. This shows that literacy was known as a negative thing for a period of time.

        Quote #2:

"What do you think of when I say the word Knowledge?' not a single child used the word think." 

This quote shows how we need to teach students differently, so they'll understand better. they're not interested in class, so they don't know basic knowledge that is important.

        Quote #3:

"Were locked into a system of rules and roles that none of us understood and that did not allow much in the way for education."

This quote shows how people can feel trapped within a rigid system that enforces rules and roles which limit opportunities for meaningful education or personal growth.

I think these quotes are very important to keep in mind when teaching your students. It helps you keep in mind what you should be teaching and focusing on in your future years as an educator.

Blog #6

     

        Classroom tour

    I have personal connect to this video. She kept talking about how her room wasn't perfectly clean and that's how I feel about my room. No matter how much I clean it, it never feels perfectly clean because I just have so much stuff. Something else I can connect to was how she added stuff to her classroom that she likes. She added a bunch of Hamilton decorations because that's what she enjoys. I think adding stuff you enjoy in your classroom is very important. I always add a touch of my personality with everything that I do. Something else I enjoyed was how she decorates her room with cute cheap things. I know I definitely won't have a lot of my own money to spend on my classroom in the future so her showing that you can make your room cute with cheap materials is helpful. This part of the video probably makes many future teachers, including myself, feel better about how they're going to be decorating their room with a budget. It also helps by giving us ideas. Something I enjoyed in her room was her homework board. When I was younger, I would easily get distracted and not hear about the teaching talking about homework, so I'd get 0s on a lot of work. If my teachers had homework boards, Id easily be able to look at the board before leaving the classroom so I can see what I have due. In the back of her classroom, she has a bucket of computer chargers for her students to borrow. In high school, I'd get home from work late and would forget to charge my computer for school. My teachers would often let me borrow a charger so I wouldn't have to worry and this was very helpful.

Student

     

    When I go into the 4th grade classroom, they're in recess. This one student, who I'll call, Jade. Jade walked up to the teacher saying how her foot was hurting. She then took her socks and shoes off and put them on the table. The teacher tried to tell her to put her socks back on, so she walked around barefoot. 

    After recess ended, I took Jade and some other students into the hallway to learn math. She kept distracting the students and run around. I told her to sit in her own seat and to be quiet. Jade then kept looking at the other students work and copying them. Because she kept doing this, I had to give every student a different question. While I was teaching them how to do the work while facing the whiteboard, I heard Jade start singing something inappropriate that's on TikTok. I told her how that's not appropriate and shouldn't be talked about in school. She then kept talking about skibidi toilet and Fortnite when I was trying the teacher her. I wanted to try to get her to focus and stop distracting others, so I told them that if they behave, I'll let them do a problem for the other students on the big board. It worked and I got them to calm down and follow directions. 

Troublemakers

 

    TroubleMakers by Shalaby

First Quote: 

"As an educator it is in my job to insist on every child's right to a classroom experience that daily honors her, reverse her smarts, engages her curiosities, and ensures her dignity." (Preface, pg.1)

This quote emphasizes the responsibilities of an educator to create an inclusive and respectful classroom environment for every child. It telling you that you need to provide a positive work environment for the students. This'll make them feel welcomed and supported. This quote is impo
rtant to the text because the reading is telling you what you need to provide your students as an educator. 

Second Quote:

"Classrooms must be places in which we practice freedom." (Preface, Pg,2)

This quote shows that we need to encourage our students to express themselves freely. Students should be able to learn without the feeling of fear when asking questions, getting something wrong, or more. This quote is important to the text because throughout the reading, they tell us encouraging our students is very important. 

Third Quote:

"I somehow felt that the combination of my credentials and my status as an adult should signal the Anthony my clear authority over him" (Introduction pg.1)

This quote shows us that even though you're the teacher, doesn't mean your students will show you respect. There are some students that'll give you a hard time because they dislike school. This quote is important to the text because it shows that there will be some negativity when becoming a teacher.

I thought these quotes were very important to think about when teaching. Its not always going to be easy but you have to find a good way to teach difficult students.

Ethnic Studies

 

The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies by Christine E. Sleeter.

https://blackboard.ric.edu/ultra/courses/_103177_1/outline/file/_4401461_1

        Throughout this article, the author arguses the importance of learning about ethnics. The article starts out with introducing Carlos. He graduated high school but was never the best student. He hated school and didn't have plans to go to college. He ran into an old friend that convinced him to take a look at it. He ended up taking some Ethnic classes which he enjoyed greatly. he loved taking the courses and now he's considering a graduate program in education. This shows how learning about ethnics can really change someone's Pov on schooling. It's something they're interested in and can easily relate to and understand. The paper discusses the social and academic value of ethnic studies, comparing it to mainstream "Euro-American Studies." It reviews research on the impact of ethnic studies on students of color and diverse student groups, emphasizing the need for a curriculum that reflects the diversity of the U.S. population. Despite efforts to make textbooks multicultural, many still predominantly feature Euro-American narratives. Ethnic studies offer a different perspective, focusing on the experiences and histories of racial minority groups.

    I agree what the author is arguing. I believe that it is important to learn/teach about different cultures so everyone will be able to have a different perspective on these topics. Its also important because learning about your own culture is interesting and has the ability to keep you engaged and ready to learn.

Four I's of oppression

 

            The four I's of oppression by Luna Malbroux.

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    In the video, Luna first shows us the four I's of Oppression which are Ideological, interpersonal, institutional, and internalized. She argues that the way you are shaped around the world is by gender and by race. She explains how the way your teat people has nothing to do with racism. There are systems that has to do with racism, transphobia, ableism and more. these systems include institutional, internalized, interpersonal, systemic racism, and ideological. Ideological has to do with stereotypes. For example, boys don't cry, or girls should be pretty. These shape how people are guided. Interpersonal is how we have all experienced being treated differently because of an aspect of who we are. Institutional is how institutions reinforce and manifest their ideologies. An example is how are neighborhoods are set up to exclude people. The last I is Internalized. Internalized are messages that may not be explicitly stated. You can see this in movies, books, and the political system. We internalize things because there is a dominate narrative that tells us that there is a standard norm. These are all things that Luna Malbroux argued about throughout the video. 

        I agree with everything that was said. I believe that these main I's are very important in our society because they have formed how people think about things. This video showed us how there is a system with oppression and defined them for us. 

Other Peoples Children

         

        Other Peoples Children by Lisa Delpit.

                    The author, Lisa Delpit, argues through the text how students from different backgrounds             should be taught differently. 

                       She explains how she's tried to talk to other teachers in her school about it and they                 disagreed with her. They were white and telling her how her ideas were wrong. She tried explaining it to them, but they weren't agreeing. Lisa Delpit kept saying how they listen, but they don't hear. She    ended up stopping with arguing with them because she thinks it's not worth it. She believes that they    think they always have to be correct. Some people that she thinks should be taught differently is colored, low class, and different cultured students. Delpit also talks about different issues with power within schools. Some of the examples of power is the power of the teacher over the students, publisher of textbooks and developers of the curriculum, power of the state in enforcing compulsory schooling      and the power of an individual or group to determine another's intelligence. She thinks how people who have more power in our society don't know about their power but people with less power are aware of power in our day-to-day life. 

               

         I believe that we should incorporate other cultures into our teaching habits. I think it'll be a great idea so they students will be able to learn easier and understand material easier. However, I disagree how she kept referring back to "white people have to always be right". I don't agree with putting people in a group with others just because of their race. Although the people who did have an argument against her were white people, not "all" white people are going to argue against her and refuse to be wrong.