Shor

I think Shor was an excellent read and had a great amount of good points in it. The points the were faced with issues of Banking. His best points included participation and getting the class involved in the work they are doing. He explained the great disadvantages to banking very well. A teacher cannot not just sit in front of the classroom and push knowledge into a child's head. One, the child has to want to learn about the subject and two, the child must feel a connection and involvement in the class in order to feel comfortable enough to learn. in our class for example we do activities such as group work that help us to connect with on another, voice out own opinions, and feel that sense of comfortably to talk and share ideas with one another. We must form a democracy where everyone's voice gets heard. the teacher must not make any student in the class invisible or uncomfortable. How much a student participates in class and works with other students effects the overall success and learning of the student when the class is over. Eyes and Ears have to be open at all times whether its students of teachers but overall its the teachers job to make that happen.

Citizenship in School

Right off the bat i was interested in this article because my mother and sisters teach at schools with kids with disability. I have volunteered at the schools and understand thoroughly everything that comes in the picture in this article. Some of the stories were really disappointing to here like the story of the girl who wanted to be a movie director. Teaching skills even in the field require never doubting any kids or ruling them out in anything. When i volunteer at my moms school i make sure i have open ears and eyes to all students no matter if they are disabled or not. Separating the kids can be a better thing more time than a negative thing. The reasoning for this is from seeing examples of kids with disabilities being taken out of the classroom and getting the one on one attention they need and being in an environment where they can concentrate and be comfortable it helps them to learn better and have a lot less distractions. The only negative part of this is that they may feel secluded form the group and it may take away from different social aspects. Overall i think it should be evenly spread where they are in the class for the areas of school they understand and they are taken out of the class when they need help or are struggling with a subject. A person may be seen as different in some ways but everyone is different in one way or the other and we are all human beings no matter what. Therefore a child with a disability such as down syndrome can be in any career he wants with the best help just as any other person could and this is what we as teachers need to realize.

Jean Anyon

The different points brought across in this blog can help us to learn how to become better teachers as well as students. Anyon describes to us in different opinions just how bad or good a school can be. If the learning is one that is disciplined, kids are kept in line, there is punishments, caring, orders and directions are followed, and kids are in school to learn due to these factors then the chances for success are unbeatable. One personal experience that i can recognize from my service learning projects is seeing the behaviors, attitudes, and discipline of the kids and the teaching skills of these teachers and relating them to when i was in elementary school. The different things that children are getting away with and the discipline is just not there at all. If i was to do any of those things in my old school i would have been suspended or maybe even expelled. I went to a catholic school where all the kids were polite, kept in line, and the discipline was one at a level of expertise so seeing this is like a whole new world to me. My school relates more to the first couple examples given that was why i had reason to believe those school were public schools.
The kids obviously aren't getting the discipline that they need at home and this is where our jobs at teachers are brought in the picture and we need to step up and make sure that this is changed. There is no reason a teacher cant put a kid in line and make him a better person. The knowledge known by those who teach shouldn't always be about teaching and should play as a role of one who can get these kids into shape and make sure they have the manners and discipline they need to make it in this world. No matter what class they are in a child can always change if the right things are played into the picture.

Gender and Education

To find information on this subject wasn't easy at all. Most said boys were smarter in math and girls were smarter in English and history. I personally think it varies from what i have seen in all my years of being school. The girls in my schools usually had more drive and motivation in school and in that may have been considered smarter but that doesn't necessarily mean that the girls were smarter. Until i actually see statistics and results that are accurate and posted i cant really believe that gender plays a role in the subject a student takes. It is more to do with drive, environment, and smartness of the student learning.
I think in order to change what is happening teacher need to make boys and girls equal in every single classroom, make sure that they are never grouped separately, and make both genders want to learn the subject and have drive. Everything must be equality including things such as being called on in class, same push, and same work that is given in the classroom. The children cant be stereotyped before they even walk into the room because it plays to an unfair disadvantage to one gender or the other. I personally have a reference to this with one of my high school teachers. She would always judge girls as smarter than boys and pick on the girls more than boys. This even played a factor in things such as test grades because it was all a mental mind state. The teacher would look as the name on the test see it was a girl and already be thinking that the paper was good and when a boys test was looked at nothing much was expected. I would like to see a classroom that gives gender equality and does all of those things that i said above and then show the statistics of the grades and i will believe whatever the results are even though i feel it would be different in every school.