Wednesday, October 31, 2007
"Do schools marshal their human and material resources to produce idiots or citizens?" Final draft
School has an important role that will build the minds of future citizens or as Parker W. writes, in "Teaching Against Idiocy", idiots. Teachers have a bigger role towards the students besides teaching different subjects that will help the students to get ready for the real life to interact your other people once they are done with school.The power that education has in the students is bigger than people think. Teachers teach values to students every day directly and indirectly, students are the reflection of the teacher’s behavior and of what they been taught in class is going come out outside, is going to influence them in their social life outside the school. So ideas, mentality that kids learn in class are going to be used outside the class but what teacher should keep in mind is that teachers need to act with care and paying attention of what they do and say because kids will copy teacher’s action and way to think especially things that teachers don’t mean to teach.It’s really important to notice what a strong influence teacher has on students so teachers don’t want their students to get wrong ideas especially when they are learning different ideas from what they are learning at house because then teachers are going have to answer to student’s parents about it . The influence of a professor is important because students see the teacher as a leader and most of the times they want become just like him/her so the professor need to be careful of what he is doing and saying. We all loved at least one professor that give us inspiration to push harder and believe in ourselves but how far can a professor push his/her students and when should they stop?Schools shouldn’t make the mistake to just feed information, ideas and mentality without giving a justification and a motivation to it because if it does then school creates would create just robots. So do schools create future citizens or future robots with feeding information and mentality? Do schools make students be themselves and follow their inspiration or they stopped because they are to free-spirit and make them follow a specific direction? Schools need to create people with an open mind and learn to collaborate and find the best solution in everything.School has an important and delicate role: Schools sharps minds and build the minds of the kids that are going to be the people of the future. People that will decide for us and we better hope that we can depend on them and they can take care of us.Schools teach kids to stand up for their rights and remember that they have the freedom to speak but teachers should also explain how far a kid can go get what they want and when your rights is not more important that other people rights to do and say what they want so they can learn to live in a community that can be the kindergarten, high school or you town. Also there is a big variety of students in schools, students that are from around the world are present in school of U.S. today so kids need to respect and understand the differences of lifestyle and do not marginalized kids just because they have different color skin or a different shape of eyes. Is it better to separate students into groups with people of the same characteristics or try to learn more about a student with different background can help to get students ready when they are going to be in the real world full of diversity of cultures?This is when democracy comes in democracy is live together with other people and work together to the only the best solution for the community, country, planet. If adults today don’t feel comfortable to work with other cultures and seems that they don’t meet an agreement is because their schools didn’t teach them how to.What happen into the school, in the house and streets are connect so the power of education needs to remind that what a teacher will do and say will be a role model for the kids, the same kids that hoping one day are going to be citizens and not idiots.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Inquiry Question
Our inquiry question is not 100% ready but we have a specific topic and that is music and how music can help and make learning easier for students. I support the idea that music can simplify this, I teach Italian and always try to bring songs into my classes because I believe that music is fun, kids love it and without even realize they learn and it is easy to remember. I also believe that through music any other topic can be taught and learnt, math, dance, geography name it and try to think how you can teach a specific topic with music and the class can be more fun and I strongly believe that kids that learn while having fun can assimilate more than kids that are been taught in a very strict and more classic way and it also can get kid's creativity and imagination, two elements that I consider important as any other subject.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
first draft
Carmen Gloria Catania
Dr. Goldstein R.
CURR 201-04
10/16/2007
"Do schools marshal their human and material resources to produce idiots or citizens?"
School has an important role that will build the minds of future citizens or as Parker W. writes, in "Teaching Against Idiocy", idiots. Teachers have a bigger role towards the students besides teaching different subjects that will help the students to get ready for the real life once they are done with school.
The power that education has in the students is bigger than people think. Teachers need to act with care and paying attention of what they do and say because kids will copy teacher’s action and way to think especially things that teachers don’t mean to teach.
Students are the reflection of the teacher and of what they been taught in class is going come out outside, is going to influence them in their social life outside the school.
Schools give the chance to students become someone one day and it can be either someone good or someone bad.
Ideas, mentality that kids learn in class will be used outside the class
It’s really important notice how strong is the power of education, what professors should teach and shouldn’t teach, you don’t want students get wrong ideas maybe different ideas that you are trying to teach and/ or different from what they are learning at house.
The influence of a professor is important because students see the teacher as a leader and most of the times they want become just like him/her so the professor need to be careful of what he is doing and saying. We all loved at least one professor that give us inspiration to push harder and believe in ourselves but how far can a professor push his/her students and when should they stop?
Schools shouldn’t make the mistake to just feed information, ideas and mentality without giving a justification and a motivation to it because if it does then school creates would create just robots. So do schools create future citizens or future robots with feeding information and mentality? Do schools make students be themselves and follow their inspiration or they stopped to follow a specific direction? Schools need to create people with a open mind and learn to collaborate and find the best solution in everything.
School has an important and delicate role: Schools sharps minds and build the minds of the kids that are going to be the people of the future. People that will decide to for us and we better hope that we can depend on them/ they will take care of us.
Schools teach kids to stand up for their selves and remember that they have the freedom to speak but teachers should also explain how far a kid can go get what they want and when your rights is not more important that other people right to do and say what they want so learn to live in a community that can be the kindergarten, or high school or you town. Also there is a big variety of students in schools, students that are from around the world are present in school of U.S. today so kids need to respect and understand the differences of lifestyle and do not marginalized kids just because they have different color skin or a different eye shape. Is it better to separate students into groups with people of the same characteristics or try to learn more about a student with different background can help to get students ready when they are going to be in the real world full of diversity of cultures?
This is when democracy comes in democracy is live together with other people and work together to the only the best solution for the community, country, planet. If wrong up people today don’t feel comfortable to work with other cultures and seems that they don’t meet an agreement id because their schools didn’t teach them.
What happen into the school, in the house and streets are connect so the power of education needs to remind that what will happen do and say a teacher will be a role model for the kids, the same kids that hoping one day are going to be citizens and not idiots.
Monday, October 22, 2007
The Future Of Urban Schools
I liked this paper so far. I always love see people try to notice the problems or mistakes done in the pst in the schools and try to get a change in the schools for the best and this paper was really giving some good advice.
i thought that the idea that was giving to the citie and its importance was a good point beacuse cities are the places where everything happens and show what the community is all about with let the students get to partecita in public life.
The idea that enjoyed about this paper was that the curriculus everything that the students study should be based about the history of the students so that would make it more interesting and usefull when the students are out there, so ready to belong and make a better community, so have this curriculum a little bit more compleate that would get kids ready for almost everything in life, I say almost because it's not always good to generalize and you never know!
Also in the paper is idea that students can have "the ability to control the course of their lives in the ways that are the promise of democracy" (pg.2) in way a teachers should always belive in their students and try to understand what is the student interested about it, good at and show his abilities to do good things and believe in him/her self.
Also in class we got to exploir more the reading and we focus on the letter and what each letter meant:
AEIOU
A: Agenda based on if you can see something wrong, you can change it, be able to change the changable, You can effect change and you have the tolls to do it.
E: Equity & Justice Justice= Talks about fairness that is do what's right to do as a teacher with her/his students, difference between equity(recognition - individual needs with relationship to the group) and equality (everyone gets the same), getting the right help when they need it.
I:Instruction & Curriculum: how learning actually occurs - focus too much on how people teach instead of how kids really laern. Pick a topic: what will my students learn? How will they learn it? How will I know they will lwarned?
O: Outcomes & Impact: outcomes=the resolt what they learned , the ability to use what they've. Impact= It's real life application
U: Urban Condition: Faces of what schools means for students, Students go to school for different reasons, some like it,, some need it, some mark time and some to wast time. so the question is "How you choose to deal with it and make the difference? "
i thought that the idea that was giving to the citie and its importance was a good point beacuse cities are the places where everything happens and show what the community is all about with let the students get to partecita in public life.
The idea that enjoyed about this paper was that the curriculus everything that the students study should be based about the history of the students so that would make it more interesting and usefull when the students are out there, so ready to belong and make a better community, so have this curriculum a little bit more compleate that would get kids ready for almost everything in life, I say almost because it's not always good to generalize and you never know!
Also in the paper is idea that students can have "the ability to control the course of their lives in the ways that are the promise of democracy" (pg.2) in way a teachers should always belive in their students and try to understand what is the student interested about it, good at and show his abilities to do good things and believe in him/her self.
Also in class we got to exploir more the reading and we focus on the letter and what each letter meant:
AEIOU
A: Agenda based on if you can see something wrong, you can change it, be able to change the changable, You can effect change and you have the tolls to do it.
E: Equity & Justice Justice= Talks about fairness that is do what's right to do as a teacher with her/his students, difference between equity(recognition - individual needs with relationship to the group) and equality (everyone gets the same), getting the right help when they need it.
I:Instruction & Curriculum: how learning actually occurs - focus too much on how people teach instead of how kids really laern. Pick a topic: what will my students learn? How will they learn it? How will I know they will lwarned?
O: Outcomes & Impact: outcomes=the resolt what they learned , the ability to use what they've. Impact= It's real life application
U: Urban Condition: Faces of what schools means for students, Students go to school for different reasons, some like it,, some need it, some mark time and some to wast time. so the question is "How you choose to deal with it and make the difference? "
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Teaching and Idiocy
Carmen Gloria Catania
Dr. Goldstein R.
CURR 201-04
10/16/2007
"Do schools marshal their human and material resources to produce idiots or citizens?"
School has an important role that will build the minds of future citizens or as Parker W. writes, in "Teaching Against Idiocy", idiots. Teachers have a bigger role towards the students beside teach different subjects that will help the students once are done with school to get ready for the real life.
The power that education has in the students is bigger than people think. Teachers need to act with care and paying attention of what they do and say because kids will copy they action and mentality especially things that teachers didn’t mean to teach.
Students are the reflection of the teacher and of what they been taught in class is going come out outside, is going to influence them in their social life outside the school.
Schools gives the chance to become someone either someone good or someone bad.
Ideas, mentality that kids learn in class will be used outside the class, the human been since students
It’s really important notice how strong is the power of education, what professors should teach and shouldn’t teach, you don’t want students get wrong ideas maybe different ideas that you are trying to teach and/ or different from what they are learning in their homes.
The influence of a professor is important the professor need to be careful of what he is doing and saying. How far can a professor go?
Schools shouldn’t make the mistake to just feed information, ideas and mentality without giving a justification and a motivation to it. Does the school create future citizens or future robots with feeding information and mentality? DO schools make students be themself and follow their inspiration or they stopped to follow a specific direction? Schools need to create people with a open mind and learn to collaborate and find the best solution in everything.
School has an important and delicate role: Schools sharps minds and build the minds of the kids that are going to be the people of the future. People that will decide to for us and we better hope that we can depend on them/ they will take care of us.
Same understanding vs. Different ones, there is a big variety of students, students from around the world are present in school of U.S. today. Is it better to separate students into groups with people of the same characteristics as suggest in the reading or try to learn more about a student with different background can help to get students ready when they are going to be in the real world full of diversity of cultures?
This is when democracy comes in democracy is live together with other people and work together to the only the best solution for the community, country, planet. If wrong up people today don’t feel comfortable to work with other cultures and seems that they don’t meet an agreement id because their schools didn’t teach them.
What happen into the school, in the house and streets are connect so the power of education needs to remind that what will happen do and say a teacher will be a role model for the kids, the same kids that hoping one day are going to be citizens and not idiots.
Dr. Goldstein R.
CURR 201-04
10/16/2007
"Do schools marshal their human and material resources to produce idiots or citizens?"
School has an important role that will build the minds of future citizens or as Parker W. writes, in "Teaching Against Idiocy", idiots. Teachers have a bigger role towards the students beside teach different subjects that will help the students once are done with school to get ready for the real life.
The power that education has in the students is bigger than people think. Teachers need to act with care and paying attention of what they do and say because kids will copy they action and mentality especially things that teachers didn’t mean to teach.
Students are the reflection of the teacher and of what they been taught in class is going come out outside, is going to influence them in their social life outside the school.
Schools gives the chance to become someone either someone good or someone bad.
Ideas, mentality that kids learn in class will be used outside the class, the human been since students
It’s really important notice how strong is the power of education, what professors should teach and shouldn’t teach, you don’t want students get wrong ideas maybe different ideas that you are trying to teach and/ or different from what they are learning in their homes.
The influence of a professor is important the professor need to be careful of what he is doing and saying. How far can a professor go?
Schools shouldn’t make the mistake to just feed information, ideas and mentality without giving a justification and a motivation to it. Does the school create future citizens or future robots with feeding information and mentality? DO schools make students be themself and follow their inspiration or they stopped to follow a specific direction? Schools need to create people with a open mind and learn to collaborate and find the best solution in everything.
School has an important and delicate role: Schools sharps minds and build the minds of the kids that are going to be the people of the future. People that will decide to for us and we better hope that we can depend on them/ they will take care of us.
Same understanding vs. Different ones, there is a big variety of students, students from around the world are present in school of U.S. today. Is it better to separate students into groups with people of the same characteristics as suggest in the reading or try to learn more about a student with different background can help to get students ready when they are going to be in the real world full of diversity of cultures?
This is when democracy comes in democracy is live together with other people and work together to the only the best solution for the community, country, planet. If wrong up people today don’t feel comfortable to work with other cultures and seems that they don’t meet an agreement id because their schools didn’t teach them.
What happen into the school, in the house and streets are connect so the power of education needs to remind that what will happen do and say a teacher will be a role model for the kids, the same kids that hoping one day are going to be citizens and not idiots.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Class 10/09
I think this is been my favorite class so far. The quote of the day for me was "You need to be good students to be good teachers" I was thinking that I been focusing on my blogs to say I want be a good teacher but really I should think at the present instead of thinking about the future, so say I want be a good student it's more realistic!
I like to have a "Let me show you how to write a paper class" because is good to have a refresh on the steps that you should follow to write a good paper and hide myself behind the "I am a ESL student" excuse is not longer valid for me if I want be a good student and a future good teacher I am going to write better paper...end of the story.
Rethinking about the American values that today we discuss, I start thinking what are the values, we answered in class that we are talking about all the values, so first of my doubt was resolved but then if you think about THE AMERICAN VALUES what is really American? if from all the big list that we made on the chard about values we just erase American and put the European values would some of those values be erased? I don't think so but I really think that we shouldn't focus anymore to the question "What are American values?" because really you never going to find a values that works only for Americans, sorry that is what I think! If you want prove me wrong go head!
School for Citizens; Preserving the Republic
I loved reading this chapter, I considered so interesting for different aspect but the main one was how education can influence students because I never notice that before I didn't think that what a student thinks today is because definitely someone put those idea in his/her head, so we need to be very careful to understand what we say and how we say it. As the reading as been advising schools should teach always good values, but here I am thinking what are the good values, I consider that there are universal values as "do not kill people" If you want get respect, you need to give respect" and "Follow the rules". I don't think there is a problem about rules or values, I believe the real problem is when a complicated element as the politics comes into the classroom then here comes problems because I believe it's hard to explain politics to students without put your personal opinion. So if a teacher today have to discuss of politics in class and puts her/his own opinion into the discuss there is a big chance that student will support the opinion on the teacher. I had an experience about a teacher that liked to discuss politics in class but she didn't like when someone had a different idea from her so this experience made me so confused about politics and I don't really like it because of her. Feed to student one view of the situation is wrong. Plus I couldn't believe what I was reading when it was suggest to teach politics as religion! this would go back to my discussion of have only one point of view where here there are the bad and here the good people! It doesn't make any sense!
An other point that I like to make about this chapter is that I loved the idea about this beautiful community and idea about what social education should be I was so exited that I want to say I want be part of this too, I want become one of those teacher that student will thank later on fro giving more than just a lesson but lessons about life! well somehow I couldn’t be part because I am an immigrant and only Citizens who were native born, rural yeomen, Protestants, and not poor needed only to be reminded of their duties can belong to this wonderful project and the immigrations seemed to be considered a problem that they want to minimize as much as possible because in pg. 17 the sentence "The consequences of foreign education are alarming to me as an American" i think that people are scared of what you don't know. Once I read an article that was commenting the quote "Welcome to America, now speak English!" is a was too say that when you can't understand what people say and you don't have to leave your country to let that happen you feel threaten and scare because you are not in control of your situation. it doesn’t offend people especially a person as me.
An other point that I like to make about this chapter is that I loved the idea about this beautiful community and idea about what social education should be I was so exited that I want to say I want be part of this too, I want become one of those teacher that student will thank later on fro giving more than just a lesson but lessons about life! well somehow I couldn’t be part because I am an immigrant and only Citizens who were native born, rural yeomen, Protestants, and not poor needed only to be reminded of their duties can belong to this wonderful project and the immigrations seemed to be considered a problem that they want to minimize as much as possible because in pg. 17 the sentence "The consequences of foreign education are alarming to me as an American" i think that people are scared of what you don't know. Once I read an article that was commenting the quote "Welcome to America, now speak English!" is a was too say that when you can't understand what people say and you don't have to leave your country to let that happen you feel threaten and scare because you are not in control of your situation. it doesn’t offend people especially a person as me.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
reactions of class 09/25/07
If I have to say the truth, I don't know what happen that day, the all pop quiz, go home and type a paper in less than 2 hours and have the all speech about the all class it was a little stressful for me. Did I need a speech like that to wake me up?no.. did I think was a good idea? yes. even if I always did my readings maybe this little shake help to make sure I understand the reading and I come to class with questions! About the notes I have an eye infection so it's a little hard to look at the board but I might just seat down closer so I can see so I can take better notes.
well I better take an other look again to the reading before class and I hope we won't have an other class like that because I think I will have a heart attack!
well I better take an other look again to the reading before class and I hope we won't have an other class like that because I think I will have a heart attack!
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
the top 10 about teachers...
I know I should keep talking about things realated to class but I feel that for fun I want to put this up because is funny and talks about teachers...(sorry in advance)
1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.
2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.
3. You walk into a store and hear the words "It's Ms/Mr. _________" and know you have been spotted.
4. You have 25 people that accidentally call you Mom/Dad at one time or another.
5. You can eat a multi-course meal in under twenty-five minutes.
6. You've trained yourself to go to the bathroom at two distinct times of the day: lunch and prep period .
7. You start saving other people's trash, because most likely, you can use that toilet paper tube or plastic butter tub for something in the classroom.
8. You believe the teachers' lounge should be equipped with a margarita machine.
9. You want to slap the next person who says "Must be nice to work 7 to 3 and have summers off."
10. You believe chocolate is a food group.
11. You can tell if it's a full moon without ever looking outside.
12. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says "Boy, the kids sure are mellow today."
13. You feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behavior when you are out in public.
14. You believe in aerial spraying of Ritalin.
15. You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.
16. You spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
17. You can't pass the school supply aisle without getting at least five items!
18. You ask your friends if the left hand turn he just made was a "good choice or a bad choice." 19. You find true beauty in a can full of perfectly sharpened pencils.
20. You are secretly addicted to hand sanitizer and finally, 21. You understand instantaneously why a child behaves a certain way after meeting his or her parents
1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.
2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.
3. You walk into a store and hear the words "It's Ms/Mr. _________" and know you have been spotted.
4. You have 25 people that accidentally call you Mom/Dad at one time or another.
5. You can eat a multi-course meal in under twenty-five minutes.
6. You've trained yourself to go to the bathroom at two distinct times of the day: lunch and prep period .
7. You start saving other people's trash, because most likely, you can use that toilet paper tube or plastic butter tub for something in the classroom.
8. You believe the teachers' lounge should be equipped with a margarita machine.
9. You want to slap the next person who says "Must be nice to work 7 to 3 and have summers off."
10. You believe chocolate is a food group.
11. You can tell if it's a full moon without ever looking outside.
12. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says "Boy, the kids sure are mellow today."
13. You feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behavior when you are out in public.
14. You believe in aerial spraying of Ritalin.
15. You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.
16. You spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
17. You can't pass the school supply aisle without getting at least five items!
18. You ask your friends if the left hand turn he just made was a "good choice or a bad choice." 19. You find true beauty in a can full of perfectly sharpened pencils.
20. You are secretly addicted to hand sanitizer and finally, 21. You understand instantaneously why a child behaves a certain way after meeting his or her parents
The haiku poem!
My kids are the best
If you were in my pretty socks,
you would understand even more!
There is nothing more fun
than play and laugh with my kids
I can’t ask for more.
They are my great escape
I don’t think about a bad thing
Just play and have fun.
I see them innocent, sweet
I love them each one this much
Stickers and kisses for everyone.
Class is over for today,
Arrivederci, I see you next week kids!
It’s fun being a teacher.
I write this poem thinking about when I teach my Italian classes and my kids(students). I want to put students but trust my when you start teaching and get to see those kids for over a year you see them grow and learn you can't help it but call them kids.
This is pretty much what I think and do while I am teaching, I believe in teaching classes through playing, kids don't even realize and that's when they learn the most.
I hope all of you loved my haiku poem. For my was a big challenge because I am a ESL but I try my best and at the end was fun and easy. let me know...
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