Anna L. Kelley

Blackwater http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060529/scahill

Ella Baker http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/ellabaker/p/bio_baker_e.htm

Marcus Garvey http://www.marcusgarvey.com/

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My current placement has a focus on the children’s welfare.  The Principle told me that she desires for the students to “strive, not just survive.”  I believe that her philosophy is working due to the high achievement of students. This academic community has safety precaution like none I have seen. The students are not allowed to walk alone in the hallway. If one is call for early dismissal, three leave the classroom and two return.  When the teacher is entering the school with a class, such as recess, she has to make sure all of the students are inside before her. Oakcliff dismal process takes no less than a half an hour.  For a normal dismissal, the teacher walks her class out to the side walk.  No student is aloud off the sidewalk without holding an adult’s hand. When parents arrive in cars, the teacher and student have to walk hand and hand. The teacher checks that the car number matches the students as she closes the car door behind them.  This process takes at least 45 minutes on rainy day because all the students are kept inside.

The school community is reflected in or classroom. The teacher does not let “abnormal” actions by the child go unnoticed.  If a student saves food from lunch, the teacher will ask the child if she has enough to eat at home.  If a student makes a noise in the hall, the student’s parent receives a note about their child out of control behavior.  If a student is absent the day before, and does not look sick when he returns, the teacher will refer the child to the councilor to inquire why he was absent.

(17) “To reduce our vulnerability, we disconnect form students, from subjects, and even from ourselves.  We become caricatures of ourselves.  We distance ourselves from the students and subjects to minimize the danger- forgetting that distance makes life more dangerous still by isolating the self.”

            * I agree, yet never before have I seen this situation words as such.  To fear is to distance yourself from the unknown.  Being isolated does not help people handle reality or society.  Many people might not reveal their “true self” because they are afraid of being judge and rejected amongst other things. When a teacher is secure within herself, and is not trying to empress students or to distance herself from students, her real self can find a balance within a middle ground.  Then connections with the student and the subject can be made.

I am feeling inspired. Thus far I am truly enjoying this class. The reading and events that are assigned enforces the fact and motivate me to be the best teacher I can be.  I am very happy that the information we are exposed to in this class directly affect my perspective on education and teaching.

Problem Solution Project

Over all themes

-Wanting the world to be a better place due to our influence.

-Wanting more respect for people within the education system

-Go green!!!

Topics that I like

Student Motivation- I think this topic is worth investigating because I feel this is a link to success. Often student motivation has to begin with teacher motivation. I believe we should always come into the class motivation, but as sharing words and creating methods that spark the students interest would be helpful to all.

Lack of Community- I believe it is important for students at an early age to understand that each is an individual with the community and has responsibility for both. Also business needs to feel the need to be responsible for the community, especially in the hard economic times.

that is what I have to say. I know everyone can relate.

I am going to let this go…. just not today.

I enjoyed being on site yesterday. This was very refreshing. I am so very excited to start teaching in the class room. I enjoy our group activity with the children. Little Teresa was enjoying herself so much. The fact amazed me that we were learning from one another already.  I noticed the children were enjoying this answer and question period, they felt safe sharing their ideas with us.  Most of them did not want to leave the classroom; we were having fun learning.

Idlewood did not look how I envisioned. Being from Michigan and watching too many movies, when I thought of Idlewood, I was thinking of “Idlewild” the movie by Outcast. I thought that this school would be at the heart of the inner city, dirty, and old. However, this preconceived notion disappeared once I saw the school and interacted with the children.  Idlewood gave me hope. Nonetheless, I do hope we have more exposure to different types of high needs schools.

I enjoyed talking with Mario and Desiree face to face yesterday.  I did not think I would enjoy this actively because I felt as if we discussed the topics enough, more than I thought possible, without doing additional research for ourselves. However, I was wrong in this assumption. I participated in the face to face activity and learned from my classmates.  Putting a face to certain issues made a difference for me because I do have a habit of not caring about the opinions of a group, simply dismissing the majority opinion as wrong.

After talking with Mario, my opinion of “The Three Little Pigs” has changed. Now my train of thought for the story is, at least the people who live in straw houses don’t have as big of a mortgage as the people in the big brick houses, who have to spend thirty years paying for these houses that they cannot afford, simply because brick is better.  Maybe the people who live in the straw houses are smarter then “us” by enjoying their life and having fun living, instead of the hard workers who become workaholics, who let life pass by because we are caught in a system of striving for more, of not being happy with what we have.

Talking with Desiree made me think about being a teacher and appreciating the knowledge we are acquiring in this class. I can honesty say that I am really scared of being a teacher now. I feel that what we are learning in this class is making me better prepared for the realities of Georgia’s public schools; all of this is scary nonetheless.  Fear will not stop me. I still desire to make a positive difference in children’s lives and believe that I can.

I enjoyed talking with Mario and Desiree face to face yesterday.  I did not think I would enjoy this actively because I felt as if we discussed the topics enough, more than I thought possible, without doing additional research for ourselves. However, I was wrong in this assumption. I participated in the face to face activity and learned from my classmates.  Putting a face to certain issues made a difference for me because I do have a habit of not caring about the opinions of a group, simply dismissing the majority opinion as wrong.

After talking with Mario, my opinion of “The Three Little Pigs” has changed. Now my train of thought for the story is, at least the people who live in straw houses don’t have as big of a mortgage as the people in the big brick houses, who have to spend thirty years paying for these houses that they cannot afford, simply because brick is better.  Maybe the people who live in the straw houses are smarter then “us” by enjoying their life and having fun living, instead of the hard workers who become workaholics, who let life pass by because we are caught in a system of striving for more, of not being happy with what we have.

Talking with Desiree made me think about being a teacher and appreciating the knowledge we are acquiring in this class. I can honesty say that I am really scared of being a teacher now. I feel that what we are learning in this class is making me better prepared for the realities of Georgia’s public schools; all of this is scary nonetheless.  Fear will not stop me. I still desire to make a positive difference in children’s lives and believe that I can.

This article might make you feel mad. This is my random vent after reading this article by Pauline Lipman.

After reading this article, I do feel like a firer fighter, running towards the flames.  This article made me feel sad because the American system is capitalized.  There are these monopolies of privatized prisons and schools with their head quarters in Texas.  Before reading this, I did not realize that our system was this bad.

            I find the fact interesting that schools and prisons are being privatized. This convinces me that the government really does have plans to place a major part of our population in prisons, that these people right now are American children that will never have choice. I grew up with this dream that every American had a choice of where s/he ended in life, I know now that this is not true.  My understanding of free is not free people anymore, but a free market. However, I believe that the big companies are becoming so big, that there isn’t any competition, which a free market theoretically should arouse. Right now I feel that there are simply a bunch of products for sell, made by the bare minimal standards, such as PCs and Wal-Marts.

            I wonder if the American system is building so many jails because the government foresee civil up rising in our future? In the future, many people will not have the opportunities that we have because the wealth of our nation will be more skewed.  I desire to do something about this problem of wealth distribution before our future becomes more out of control. I want to make a change.  I have no desire to follow the gloomily future this article describes. This article scared me and made me hate Bush’s plans even more. I desire to control my life.

            The paragraph where it describes how the TAAS looked so good, yet is not, appalled me. All the science that exist, who takes account of only one research experiment and implements this across the U.S? Bush. Maybe he did not learn about scientific process and statistics in school.

Bush is so stupid. I do not understand Bush supporters. All of the ones I have personally asked why to say that he is not the brightest one in the bunch, yet they reelected him because they believed his Party was doing the right thing. It seems as if people forget that Bush and only Bush is the president of the free “market” world and that all he sees are dollar signs. People seem to forget that if this country was built upon a true democracy, he would not have been elected in office to start. How quickly the masses forget. I hate to pass the blame, but a least some of our problems are Bush fault. Now solving these issues that have been created during his office as president is left in the hands of us and our future generates.