SED and EDU 125 were both really awesome classes to take. Probably because they were education based I really enjoyed attending the classes. These classes have shown me how really dedicated the university is to teaching education and making good teachers out of their students. In SED 125 the class was really focused on giving us more information on a lot of things we will see in our special education students. This class also gave me more of an insight of how to handle students with those special needs. Also another positive thing I got out of that class was some basic laws dealing with education and other legal background information I need to know. Although I enjoyed this class I still want to remain a classroom teacher and not go into special education. I do realize I will have some special education children in my classroom but I don’t feel I would meet their needs as well as a one on one or other professional.
With EDU I really liked this class because it seemed history based. I really like learning about the history of education. Again because of my junior year history teacher I have become very passionate about history. I liked learning about how each little thing in history has had an impact of how we teach today. In EDU we studied two influential educators and learn their philosophies, this showed me what they brought to the education field and made me think if we still use these philosophies today in school. I think this class was really good to teach about the history of education because I think if you’re going to teach something at least know the background of it. This class told me that I want to make a difference just like the past has made a difference for right now; it makes me want to improve things for students and teachers. School is not for bullies or nothing; you are in school to be taught and get a good education so that you could maybe one day improve the world and make a difference. I really liked how we had previous students of UMF and got to ask them questions about their profession. It really hit home that in four years I will be in their place starting to make a difference in student’s lives.
Both of the classes gave me a good idea about what goes on in the classroom. I feel that because we learned about the history that I enjoyed EDU a little more than SED. I do feel that SED was essential because I will be having special need kids in my classroom, but I do not feel qualified to handle a special needs student I would much prefer just teaching in the classroom and watching the improvement in the students. I am not biased I just prefer a big group of students working together than just me working one on one. Obviously if the situation approached in my work I would certainly help the child in need as much as I could. I feel that both of these classes have had a positive impact on my choice here at UMF. I do still want to become a teacher and these classes have only supported my choice to become a teacher and make a difference in the world.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Blog E-Diversity
Diversity means to me a bunch if different things that get mixed together. I don’t really know a lot about diversity, I just know how I feel about it. Junior year of high school I had a history teacher who was very passionate about how rude we were to the Native Americans and Blacks that we discriminated against. Since then I have been very interested in the history of education and how diverse we once were. I believe that if we were to be taught at a young age what diversity is and learn about people who are different, than we would be more accepting to the different things that make this world unique.
I know growing up in school that if someone was different we would simply poke fun probably because we didn’t know why this person was different or how to handle the new situation. I realize now that this should not be an acceptable behavior, just because someone is different doesn’t make them any less of a person than I am or anyone else. I believe that if we start introducing diversity at a young age for the children, that as society grows older, people will have a better understanding where or why things are different.
One idea I have to simply place the idea that diversity is ok for a kindergarten age group would be to compare things together such as fruit. Simply bring up the idea that all fruit looks different, but we don’t judge the fruit and we eat it all the same. I think just incorporating little ideas like that at a young age would be a great way to get the students into the rhythm of knowing about diversity. Just because something looks or acts different doesn’t mean they’re not human. This is a mistake I made when I was little, but then again no one ever taught me different until I realized it when I got older.
I would be very excited to teach in a diverse classroom because imagine how much knowledge you would learn from everyone’s background to their daily lives. If I had a diverse classroom I would like to discuss if I could the differences and the similarities that each student possesses. Through this I feel that bonding would begin and that students would have a better understanding of the world today and how different everyone is.
I realize that being a twin everyone always assumes that you are the same person. This actually gets degrading because people look at you like you are one person, when really we are two very different people. Obviously we do have some differences, but not many people look at us as though we are different people. I feel that diversity should be highlighted as a main point in education and that it should be taught as a positive and not a negative. My goal in my classroom is to make sure that no matter what is going on in a kids live that he or she comes to school not afraid of being different, but excited to learn about everyone’s different personalities or backgrounds. I feel this would Eliminate the confusion of why people are different and it would give students a better understanding of others.
I know growing up in school that if someone was different we would simply poke fun probably because we didn’t know why this person was different or how to handle the new situation. I realize now that this should not be an acceptable behavior, just because someone is different doesn’t make them any less of a person than I am or anyone else. I believe that if we start introducing diversity at a young age for the children, that as society grows older, people will have a better understanding where or why things are different.
One idea I have to simply place the idea that diversity is ok for a kindergarten age group would be to compare things together such as fruit. Simply bring up the idea that all fruit looks different, but we don’t judge the fruit and we eat it all the same. I think just incorporating little ideas like that at a young age would be a great way to get the students into the rhythm of knowing about diversity. Just because something looks or acts different doesn’t mean they’re not human. This is a mistake I made when I was little, but then again no one ever taught me different until I realized it when I got older.
I would be very excited to teach in a diverse classroom because imagine how much knowledge you would learn from everyone’s background to their daily lives. If I had a diverse classroom I would like to discuss if I could the differences and the similarities that each student possesses. Through this I feel that bonding would begin and that students would have a better understanding of the world today and how different everyone is.
I realize that being a twin everyone always assumes that you are the same person. This actually gets degrading because people look at you like you are one person, when really we are two very different people. Obviously we do have some differences, but not many people look at us as though we are different people. I feel that diversity should be highlighted as a main point in education and that it should be taught as a positive and not a negative. My goal in my classroom is to make sure that no matter what is going on in a kids live that he or she comes to school not afraid of being different, but excited to learn about everyone’s different personalities or backgrounds. I feel this would Eliminate the confusion of why people are different and it would give students a better understanding of others.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Blog C
Paulo Freire was born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil on September 19, 1921 and he died on May 2, 1997. Due to the 1929 world depression his family had to move and live in jaboatao, he lived here for most of his childhood and teenage years. He began attending law school in Recife in 1943, a year later he married Elza Maia Costa Oliveira who was a primary school teacher. He started his practice but before his first case he changed his mind and wanted to become a teacher. He mastered Portuguese language, learned Spanish, French and English. In the year 1946 he took over as Director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture of SESI which is the Social Service of Industry. After working for at least 10 years at the Department of Education and Culture of SESI he wrote books about education and how the past influences the future. He also became one of the founders of the Capibaribe Institute in Recife which was and still is a private school committed to a high level scientific, ethical and moral education and democratic standards. In the 1960’s Paulo also participated in movements for popular education, and pushed to make millions of adults literate. He was known as a Brazilian educationalist.
http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/PF-life_and_work_by_Peter.html
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy8.ursus.maine.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=3&hid=120&sid=2ccbf954-e11c-41e0-952d-a612f18b45ab%40sessionmgr108
E.D. Hirsch known as Edward Hirsch was born on January 20, 1950 in Skokie, Illinois. Edward went to Grinnell College in Iowa and graduated in 1972. He then studied the relationship of violence to poetic in England, Wales, and France. He earned his PhD in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He married his wife Janet Landay in 1977. He wrote books of poetry such as For the Sleepwalkers in 1981, Wild Gratitude in 1986, The Night Parade in 1989, and Earthly Measures in 1944. In 1985 he has taught as a professor of English at the University of Houston.
http://www.hoover.org/bios/hirsch.html
http://www.enotes.com/omen/author-biography
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/introduction_literature/poetry/hirsch.html
http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy8.ursus.maine.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=11&hid=120&sid=2ccbf954-e11c-41e0-952d-a612f18b45ab%40sessionmgr108
http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/PF-life_and_work_by_Peter.html
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy8.ursus.maine.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=3&hid=120&sid=2ccbf954-e11c-41e0-952d-a612f18b45ab%40sessionmgr108
E.D. Hirsch known as Edward Hirsch was born on January 20, 1950 in Skokie, Illinois. Edward went to Grinnell College in Iowa and graduated in 1972. He then studied the relationship of violence to poetic in England, Wales, and France. He earned his PhD in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He married his wife Janet Landay in 1977. He wrote books of poetry such as For the Sleepwalkers in 1981, Wild Gratitude in 1986, The Night Parade in 1989, and Earthly Measures in 1944. In 1985 he has taught as a professor of English at the University of Houston.
http://www.hoover.org/bios/hirsch.html
http://www.enotes.com/omen/author-biography
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/introduction_literature/poetry/hirsch.html
http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy8.ursus.maine.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=11&hid=120&sid=2ccbf954-e11c-41e0-952d-a612f18b45ab%40sessionmgr108
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Post B
The Kalamazoo decision was a result of a community to pay higher taxes to maintain a free high school education. This decision was made by the School Board of Kalamazoo Michigan. A citizen of Kalamazoo decided to take legal action to prevent the taxation. This case was taken to the Supreme Court in Michigan, the decision was that taxes were allowed to be charged and also that some of this money went to pay the superintendent. The citizens of the community would vote if they wanted taxes raised for free education.
Kalamazoo Michigan was the beginning of a free higher education. At first Kalamazoo was just known as a common school where kids would just go for a few grades and then would have to take on adult roles such as motherhood or start working. In the 1800’s there wasn’t a real need for people to be educated because back then we didn’t have technology like we do know, and everything you needed to know you learned from experience, or just from what everyone else was doing. The girls learned to become mothers from experience and from what they saw or learned when they were little, and the same thing with keeping up with the house. They knew it had to be done, and they learned how to do it by starting at a young age cleaning and cooking. The men however worked usually in fields all day or went hunting for food. Men learned this mostly from their fathers who would take them out on trips to learn how to hunt so one day they could take care of their own families.
In Michigan in 1859 Legislature passed a law saying that schools with more than 200 school aged children needed to elect school boards to oversee the schools. The school boards had control over the schools and had a say over everything that was done, they also had control over the school funds which would be funded by the taxes, if the tax payers voted in favor of the proposal. Kalamazoo opened its first high school in 1858. This establishment was a bridge between common schools to the universities. It was a step in between instead of a big gap from common school then to university if you chose to go in that direction. This school was kept running until 1873. That year three citizens of Kalamazoo who were property owners filed a suit intending to prevent the school board from funding the high school with tax money. The citizens argued that the law had been permitted without the vote of the citizens or rather the taxpayers. They were upset because they had been forced to pay this extra money and did not have a say on whether it was a good decision or not.
These three men felt that it was important to take taxes out to pay for the common schools, but anything higher should be paid privately either by the student or their families. The decision was made in favor of the school and tax payers had to pay for the schools an education.
http://www.fullbooks.com/THE-HISTORY-OF-EDUCATION13.html
http://www.kpl.gov/collections/localhistory/allabout/education/SchoolCase.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_College
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-6773(193404)42%3A4%3C255%3ATHQBTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
http://books.google.com/books?id=_KAcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA587&lpg=PA587&dq=kalamazoo+decision&source=web&ots=8ACVil43cs&sig=_hYYK6HzmMyA3oITTMRCJmJ7BeM
Kalamazoo Michigan was the beginning of a free higher education. At first Kalamazoo was just known as a common school where kids would just go for a few grades and then would have to take on adult roles such as motherhood or start working. In the 1800’s there wasn’t a real need for people to be educated because back then we didn’t have technology like we do know, and everything you needed to know you learned from experience, or just from what everyone else was doing. The girls learned to become mothers from experience and from what they saw or learned when they were little, and the same thing with keeping up with the house. They knew it had to be done, and they learned how to do it by starting at a young age cleaning and cooking. The men however worked usually in fields all day or went hunting for food. Men learned this mostly from their fathers who would take them out on trips to learn how to hunt so one day they could take care of their own families.
In Michigan in 1859 Legislature passed a law saying that schools with more than 200 school aged children needed to elect school boards to oversee the schools. The school boards had control over the schools and had a say over everything that was done, they also had control over the school funds which would be funded by the taxes, if the tax payers voted in favor of the proposal. Kalamazoo opened its first high school in 1858. This establishment was a bridge between common schools to the universities. It was a step in between instead of a big gap from common school then to university if you chose to go in that direction. This school was kept running until 1873. That year three citizens of Kalamazoo who were property owners filed a suit intending to prevent the school board from funding the high school with tax money. The citizens argued that the law had been permitted without the vote of the citizens or rather the taxpayers. They were upset because they had been forced to pay this extra money and did not have a say on whether it was a good decision or not.
These three men felt that it was important to take taxes out to pay for the common schools, but anything higher should be paid privately either by the student or their families. The decision was made in favor of the school and tax payers had to pay for the schools an education.
http://www.fullbooks.com/THE-HISTORY-OF-EDUCATION13.html
http://www.kpl.gov/collections/localhistory/allabout/education/SchoolCase.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_College
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-6773(193404)42%3A4%3C255%3ATHQBTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
http://books.google.com/books?id=_KAcAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA587&lpg=PA587&dq=kalamazoo+decision&source=web&ots=8ACVil43cs&sig=_hYYK6HzmMyA3oITTMRCJmJ7BeM
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Post A(my informal education)
One thing I have learned outside of school is never to hold grudges. We had a family incident that changed my anger and how I handle it. I use to just keep to myself figuring this would all pass, and maybe someday I would confront this person and explain why I had so much anger and resent. This is no longer possible and will stick with me forever that I cannot explain to them why I was hurt this way and why they made me angry, they could only assume what bothered me and I was too afraid to speak up. All I know is that when you’re given a situation that you know is going to hurt you later you need to speak up and say something before you miss your chance and it is gone.
Another thing I have learned is that being a twin actually has its positives. I have a twin and when we were little we did absolutely everything in the whole world together, yes everything. As you can imagine this got tiring after many years, imagine having someone there always there with you, sleep in the same room, go to the same school, same dinner time, same homework(that actually is a plus!), same classes, and same friends. Sounds awesome at first doesn’t it? Well yeah I would say so too except its annoying having someone around you all the time, it feels almost like you have no room to breathe. I must say though we are the best of friends, we would play together all the time when we were younger and we obviously have our own set of inside jokes. We don’t always agree on everything one another does, but at the heart support it. I just remember fighting with her so often when we were younger and having someone yell at us only to say that we would be best friends when we got older, yep this would only infuriate us more. All in all I must say that having a twin does have its advantages, I know she is always there for me. Probably having this distance between colleges is helping our bond because I don’t see her everyday it’s just one less annoyance I have :). Haha.
The third lesson that I have learned is that I love kids! Which you can obviously understand why I am going into this profession. At home I have a job with the aftercare program and the summer day camp program, at times it is stressful but then you have the silly comments that make you laugh harder than you thought you could. These kids totally make my day, I love having that interacting with them learning so much about them and their capabilities. I do believe that my little sister and little brother whom is 3, and 5 gave me the inspiration to become a teacher. My little sister has already made up her mind she wants to be a teacher and go to college just like me, quite cute. This little girl has given me so much inspiration to do well and be successful that I can only thank her, for she helps me push myself so that I do well and achieve success. My little brother now, he gives me the challenges with kids I know I will soon see in the classroom he is quite adorable yet has a menace side to him which I am sure every little boy does. I love them both and could not image where I would be today without them!
Another thing I have learned is that being a twin actually has its positives. I have a twin and when we were little we did absolutely everything in the whole world together, yes everything. As you can imagine this got tiring after many years, imagine having someone there always there with you, sleep in the same room, go to the same school, same dinner time, same homework(that actually is a plus!), same classes, and same friends. Sounds awesome at first doesn’t it? Well yeah I would say so too except its annoying having someone around you all the time, it feels almost like you have no room to breathe. I must say though we are the best of friends, we would play together all the time when we were younger and we obviously have our own set of inside jokes. We don’t always agree on everything one another does, but at the heart support it. I just remember fighting with her so often when we were younger and having someone yell at us only to say that we would be best friends when we got older, yep this would only infuriate us more. All in all I must say that having a twin does have its advantages, I know she is always there for me. Probably having this distance between colleges is helping our bond because I don’t see her everyday it’s just one less annoyance I have :). Haha.
The third lesson that I have learned is that I love kids! Which you can obviously understand why I am going into this profession. At home I have a job with the aftercare program and the summer day camp program, at times it is stressful but then you have the silly comments that make you laugh harder than you thought you could. These kids totally make my day, I love having that interacting with them learning so much about them and their capabilities. I do believe that my little sister and little brother whom is 3, and 5 gave me the inspiration to become a teacher. My little sister has already made up her mind she wants to be a teacher and go to college just like me, quite cute. This little girl has given me so much inspiration to do well and be successful that I can only thank her, for she helps me push myself so that I do well and achieve success. My little brother now, he gives me the challenges with kids I know I will soon see in the classroom he is quite adorable yet has a menace side to him which I am sure every little boy does. I love them both and could not image where I would be today without them!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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