So during the third class we got to compared the two different readings but what I really considered to be the main important issue when one of the students raise the question "Why do we put so much importance into race?" Well, in the begging I thought the same... I didn't think that we should ask people around "what are you?" but "who are you?" so try to just get to know the person without all the background information if a person is outgoing would change my prospective about that person if h/she is from one race instead of an other one? I don't think so.
But later in the week I read a book about Italian immigrant into the U.S. and that made me realize that found out about each race is important because what the past generation is been through made us. we can't say that we are all the same, we are different, we are like different colors, they are all beautiful and all different. I considered that if we were all the same, coming from the same background, speaking the same language, wouldn't be so boring?
Races are beautiful and said that we shouldn’t pay that much attention to it, it's kind of silly because you don't want offend anyone first, each race has a history, culture and mentality that it should be considered instead of hiding it. If race is not important than why when a black guy says a joke about black people is funny and when a white guy says it, it's offensive?
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
After the second class ....
Before class I wrote in my reaction paper about the reading that “everything sound new to me because I didn’t grow up in this country” after class I can say the same exact thing because we didn't really went over a few things that I might will start asking about either in class or I will go over the teacher office and get a few questions about what is important to know about school, students, teachers and teaching skills. Looking at all those numbers wasn't really helping and showing any helpful information that I can take and use in the future.
I have to say that for the Martian project we didn't have enough time to get it done in class and even if I done something pretty much the same in other classes and with other subjects I would loved to put more silly information to make it more interesting but then I always think "If Martians exist, they are smart enough to stay away from us".
For Missy " am so not happy to do a project group" I am trying to get the idea that I have about project groups that is really I don't want work with other people especially if in the past I had to do all the work and be with people that weren't collaborating and either getting all the credit or take me down with them either way I was mad about their behavior.
Just a little thing that I want to share with you is: I was studying Erickson’s theory about social and personal development where he discuss that human go through a few phases and each phase as a crises and fear that they need to confront.
Well my fear is to trust people guess what... the fear of trusting people suppose to be gone at the age of 18 months old!
Going back to my project group fear I want to see people as an extra help that I can use plus I am studying to be a teacher and I am sure that i will be using project group in the future as a learning or practices so I better take a positive attitude about it and make it work!
I have to say that for the Martian project we didn't have enough time to get it done in class and even if I done something pretty much the same in other classes and with other subjects I would loved to put more silly information to make it more interesting but then I always think "If Martians exist, they are smart enough to stay away from us".
For Missy " am so not happy to do a project group" I am trying to get the idea that I have about project groups that is really I don't want work with other people especially if in the past I had to do all the work and be with people that weren't collaborating and either getting all the credit or take me down with them either way I was mad about their behavior.
Just a little thing that I want to share with you is: I was studying Erickson’s theory about social and personal development where he discuss that human go through a few phases and each phase as a crises and fear that they need to confront.
Well my fear is to trust people guess what... the fear of trusting people suppose to be gone at the age of 18 months old!
Going back to my project group fear I want to see people as an extra help that I can use plus I am studying to be a teacher and I am sure that i will be using project group in the future as a learning or practices so I better take a positive attitude about it and make it work!
reaction about class 1
The reaction that I had about the first day of class was positive for different reasons:
I was glad to see that Dr. Goldstein seems to be very organized, ready to teach this class and friendly, funny and with the right attitude.
As a Montclair student and a foreign student I have to say that you don't get that many professors that act in the same way. Some professors don't even need to speak to show that they don't like to teach, they don't have any clue of what are the main goals to reach with that class that they are teaching and they didn't spend time to get ready the class program.
When I had those kind of teachers I put in my mind that I don't want became just a teacher, a want be one of those that the students can't wait to come to school for, that when they are in class, they love to listen and participate and that they might will take the discuss done in class outside of the classroom. I know it sounds so easy and good but it takes effort to let this happen.
Since I been thinking that I want become a teacher I been looking and studied teachers, good and bad ones because they is a lot to learn just in looking a professor.
Perhaps, this semester I have a teacher that she prepared, she is funny and a person with a great personality but what I see is that even if she has a program to follow, she doesn't follow it and she looks us and tell us that we are tired and bored, so she doesn't finish the program and gives the choice to stay or leave. What I am disappointed is that we have a lot work to do and she let us leave early, the kind of exercises that we do are way too easy and she doesn't challenge us so I wouldn't blame anyone if students get bored. I have a question for you; she said if you have any ideas how to make the class more fun and interesting please email me...
My instinct is to email her and tell her to give a little of challenging homework or exercises where we would spend more than 2 minutes on it, reading, movies anything that after can be discuss in class, then something hits me and I think "What about the rest of the? Does anyone else think the same thing or I should just be quite because I don't want being the most hated girl in the class even because that's a major class and I would see the same people for the next year..."
Well, I know it's hard to be a good teacher and to get the right impression on students but I am ready to work hard and to deserve that grade that I will get at the end of the semester.
In conclusion, I feel I will be a positive experience attending this class and I will get a lot of knowledge from this class and I am so excited to go to Newark because I think it's going to be one of the most greatest experience where I going get to learn a lot from. Once a professor told me "You can learn a lot from books about teaching but there are things that books can't teach you and that you would get only from experiencing teaching" I totally believe is truth and I am ready to learn.
I was glad to see that Dr. Goldstein seems to be very organized, ready to teach this class and friendly, funny and with the right attitude.
As a Montclair student and a foreign student I have to say that you don't get that many professors that act in the same way. Some professors don't even need to speak to show that they don't like to teach, they don't have any clue of what are the main goals to reach with that class that they are teaching and they didn't spend time to get ready the class program.
When I had those kind of teachers I put in my mind that I don't want became just a teacher, a want be one of those that the students can't wait to come to school for, that when they are in class, they love to listen and participate and that they might will take the discuss done in class outside of the classroom. I know it sounds so easy and good but it takes effort to let this happen.
Since I been thinking that I want become a teacher I been looking and studied teachers, good and bad ones because they is a lot to learn just in looking a professor.
Perhaps, this semester I have a teacher that she prepared, she is funny and a person with a great personality but what I see is that even if she has a program to follow, she doesn't follow it and she looks us and tell us that we are tired and bored, so she doesn't finish the program and gives the choice to stay or leave. What I am disappointed is that we have a lot work to do and she let us leave early, the kind of exercises that we do are way too easy and she doesn't challenge us so I wouldn't blame anyone if students get bored. I have a question for you; she said if you have any ideas how to make the class more fun and interesting please email me...
My instinct is to email her and tell her to give a little of challenging homework or exercises where we would spend more than 2 minutes on it, reading, movies anything that after can be discuss in class, then something hits me and I think "What about the rest of the? Does anyone else think the same thing or I should just be quite because I don't want being the most hated girl in the class even because that's a major class and I would see the same people for the next year..."
Well, I know it's hard to be a good teacher and to get the right impression on students but I am ready to work hard and to deserve that grade that I will get at the end of the semester.
In conclusion, I feel I will be a positive experience attending this class and I will get a lot of knowledge from this class and I am so excited to go to Newark because I think it's going to be one of the most greatest experience where I going get to learn a lot from. Once a professor told me "You can learn a lot from books about teaching but there are things that books can't teach you and that you would get only from experiencing teaching" I totally believe is truth and I am ready to learn.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Reading number 2...Educational Demographics: What teachers should know
I found this reading interesting because as I said before moving from an other country I don't know the most common information about schools, teachers and students in the U.S. so it's important for my and I think it's a blessing to take this class that shows me what's going on in schools today.I had a few questions about the reading as "Hispanic is not a race" I was a little confused about this situation and I want to know why Hispanic is not considered a race and I didn't find quite clear when it was talking about the miscegenation marriages because before the reading was noticing that 40 percent of all Americans have had some racial mixing in the last three generation but then it says that Europeans Americans are married to a spouse from the same country of origin and pretty soon Hispanics and Asians will do the same but Diversity in increasing. So my question is "is diversity incring now but soon will decrease or what?".
I loved the few tips for teachers at the end of the page and the sentence "Rather than "color blind" your goal should be "culture fair" is a pretty strong and important sentence that every teacher should look up to.
I loved the few tips for teachers at the end of the page and the sentence "Rather than "color blind" your goal should be "culture fair" is a pretty strong and important sentence that every teacher should look up to.
The Martian Blog ( Group 1)
What are our schools like and how did they get that way?
1. School districts provide education for students to learn about different subject matters such as English, History, Math, Science, etc. Students attend school Monday through Friday 6 hours a day. The school districts are controlled mainly by the State and local government. Students are required to attend school from ages 5-18. At the age of 16, students have a choice to drop out.
What are our schools like and how did they get that way?
2. The students in America are diverse. (Asian/Pacific Islander, African American, White, & Latino) Foreign born children (born outside of the U.S) also attend schools in the U.S. and are taught to speak English. Students start attending school at the age of 4 until 17-18.
Who are our teachers?
3. Almost half of all public school teachers have advanced degrees, and the majority has more than 10 years of experience. The ratio of male to female teachers is 8:10. 9 out of 10 teachers are white. 33% teachers escape the profession and pursue other careers. 46% of teachers leave the profession within 5 years.
1. School districts provide education for students to learn about different subject matters such as English, History, Math, Science, etc. Students attend school Monday through Friday 6 hours a day. The school districts are controlled mainly by the State and local government. Students are required to attend school from ages 5-18. At the age of 16, students have a choice to drop out.
What are our schools like and how did they get that way?
2. The students in America are diverse. (Asian/Pacific Islander, African American, White, & Latino) Foreign born children (born outside of the U.S) also attend schools in the U.S. and are taught to speak English. Students start attending school at the age of 4 until 17-18.
Who are our teachers?
3. Almost half of all public school teachers have advanced degrees, and the majority has more than 10 years of experience. The ratio of male to female teachers is 8:10. 9 out of 10 teachers are white. 33% teachers escape the profession and pursue other careers. 46% of teachers leave the profession within 5 years.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Pubblic schools
Reading the paper, everything sound new to me because I didn’t grow up in this country and I getting this information about public school, who are the students and what matters and what doesn’t it, it’s new and I don’t fully understand what is an issue and what’s not. For example, reading one of those statistics, there was one saying that 1 out of 4 students form the public school is a student of color and the number will increase in the future. Now I thought about it and I asked myself first why is important to point this out? what does this mean? Is this a problem or a better thing? How was in the past? Were there less students of color or more in the past years?
I grow up in Italy but not the north Italy, in the past years it’s visible to see multi-cultures in one same town and school. I lived in Sicily where there is 1 out 1000 students is an immigrant and I lived in a town small where everyone is related some how.
When I came here and I got to see multi-culture connect with each others for me was like music to my ears because I remember it that my sociology teacher used tell before I left that I would had a chance to get to now other cultures, lifestyle and it was an amazing opportunity that would make become more open-minded and mature more.
Living in an other continent means, same things as public and private school can have different meaning and different way to be seen. I want get to understand these differences and learn everything about it because as a future teacher I want know what can be changed and modified for the best. I want become one less bad teacher and be an example for my future students.
I grow up in Italy but not the north Italy, in the past years it’s visible to see multi-cultures in one same town and school. I lived in Sicily where there is 1 out 1000 students is an immigrant and I lived in a town small where everyone is related some how.
When I came here and I got to see multi-culture connect with each others for me was like music to my ears because I remember it that my sociology teacher used tell before I left that I would had a chance to get to now other cultures, lifestyle and it was an amazing opportunity that would make become more open-minded and mature more.
Living in an other continent means, same things as public and private school can have different meaning and different way to be seen. I want get to understand these differences and learn everything about it because as a future teacher I want know what can be changed and modified for the best. I want become one less bad teacher and be an example for my future students.
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