Emily FNED246

 Good Afternoon and welcome back to my blog!          Today we read "Aria" and I'm going to explain and connect the reading to my classroom placement I am in currently. This reading was about a student struggling to communicate because of how limited his communication was because English was his second language. Unfortunately the student needed to have a student-teacher conference, where the teacher explained to the parents that in order to have a full education, the parents had to start speaking English. This hurt the parents feelings because they took the teachers words as forgetting the entire Spanish speaking lifestyle and everyday the distance between her and parents grew. Her parents did not speak/understand English and the student (Aria) was forced to completely understand English. The silence was very loud in her house hold.      Reading this opened my eyes as a future teacher. In my classroom, my teacher has been educating for more t...

 Good Morning and welcome back to my blog!      Today I read the preface and chapters 1 &2 of "Literacy with an Attitude."  This goes in depth with a new way of exploring our core classes such as: math, literature, etc. This book written by Patrick J.Finn, examines how we need engagement in our classroom to help the students fully learn and I whole-heartedly agree with this concept. The concept of not just throwing a text book with questions at the end but to come up with new and fun ways of learning. Although these three chapters I read were very influential I wanted to highlight two quotes I found interesting/ worthy of mentioning as well as adding my thoughts. Quote #1 "Do it this way or its wrong" (page.20)      Thoughts: In math there is a right and wrong answer, but never the wrong way of getting there I believe.  In a classroom not everyone learns the same way and I think it's interesting to see how this newer generation of teacher...

 Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!      As many of you know, I have been in my classroom placement for about a month now and the experience has exposed me to many new cultures and ways of teaching. My third grade classroom has been a wake up call because I never thought I would enjoy teaching the younger generations. I go there every Friday morning where they talk to me about their week, eat their breakfast, and do their IREADY math which can be tricky to help them stay on track. Previously I discussed the "Problem child" of the classroom and observed the students behavior. Their behavior I observed consisted of how they learn, who gets distracted easily, etc. But now our shift is to the classroom environment.         Previously, we were hyper-focused on the children, now we are focusing on the environment (classroom) and how they learned. IN the Reading Alfie Kohn writes, he provides a chart of what a classroom should consist of for suc...

 Good morning Blog and welcome back!          For a couple weeks now I have been observing a 3rd grade classroom in Providence. While I am teaching them math lessons every Friday, I am also observing behavior and different personalities in the enclosed space.  Although my small groups, so far, have all been well behaved,  I noticed one child who gets a little anxious and antsy during math. This child, we will name James.              This student is very small height wise, light-skinned, has long dark hair he always puts up in a pony tail. His eyes are brown and very doe eyed as well as his smile. During our math lesson he tends to always act out. Whether its talking to his class or drawing on the whiteboards when they are not in use. I think he acts out in this lesson because he needs extra help. When James does not understand the topic in the math lesson he gets discouraged and acts out. This is very ...

 Good afternoon and welcome back to my blog!          Thank you for joining me again, Today we will highlight the key points/ quotes of the reading "Troublemakers." This reading is written by Carla Shalaby where she addresses and highlights, that children's behavior is taught and expresses how restrictive they feel in a school environment. She also highlights how our disciplinary system hurts the child because we categorized a student who is constantly in trouble a "problem child," instead of exploring the "why did the student go through with this actions?" Although this reading had a lot of important key points I want to highlight a couple of quotes that stuck out to me. From Shalabys Preface: "Thus, on the streets and in our schools, we are in the habit of incarcerating the people from whom we could learn the most about freedom."(pg.9) She is referring to the "Black Lives Matter" movement when it was at its peek in 2020. When the...