Kate EDU 402

The first journal entry that I really loved was entry ninety three, “Trials of Dating”, and that part that I really connected with was the hesitation on the teacher’s end about telling people that she’s a teacher. While I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve had a date, there have been situations where I felt uncomfortable professing my interest in becoming a teacher. Sometimes, being surrounded by certain people, I know that they aren’t going to respond the way I want them too when I tell them I want to be a teacher, or that they’ll act interested but actually not be. This especially happens when I tell people I want to teach middle school, usually the response is far less enthusiastic than I want it to be. I also thought this journal was interesting, because it gave insight to the kinds of social lives that one might have a teacher. The second entry that I really enjoyed reading was entry one hundred and three, “Quitting Catholic School”. I personally didn’t attend Catholic s...

The first entry in this section that really jumped out to me was entry forty seven, The Unreachable Student. The first reason that this entry really spoke to me was that, in some ways I was a lot like Monique in class. I really only raised my hand when I knew that answer and did not want to be called on when I didn’t raise my hand, and would often recoil if I thought the teacher was going to call on me. However, beyond that, I really loved the relationship and trust that this teacher built with his or her students, and the bond that they all created. That’s something that I really aspire to create in my own classroom, where students trust me and their classmates enough to share personal stories and struggles and help each other through those struggles. I also really loved the teacher’s “what we stay in this room, stays in this room” motto. This just helps build that trust with your students and that’s definitely something that I could see myself implementing in my own classroom. Th...

The big theme that was present throughout the entirety of this episode was “separate but equal is never truly equal” which was the idea that pushed Brown v Board of Education. Segregation, discrimination and gender bias were the main focuses of this episode and they all focused on that very idea, that separation is inherently unequal. I had always known about Brown v Board of Education, but there were some things that I didn’t know that I learned about while watching this. It was really interesting, but not surprising to learn about how long it actually took after Brown v Board of Education passed for it to be completely federally implemented. It wasn’t until money was threatened at the federal level that schools started to listen to the government and end segregation in schools. One thing I did not know, is that after integration was implemented, that the African American teachers lost their jobs and then were out of work. The segment about Title XI was really interesting to me as we...

This episode was really really interesting to me, as both a future educator and a history major, to learn so much about the history of the American school system. While there were some parts of the history that I knew and was aware of, there were some parts of it that I had never heard of before. For example, parts of the school’s treatment of immigrant students. I knew that when children came to America from other countries, they were put into American schools, I didn’t know just how “Americanized” that they were forced to be. Some people interviewed in the video recalled being spanked or punished when they would speak in languages that weren’t English and how no classes were offered in their native languages. This discrimination of non American non white students continued with tracking students based on IQ and other standardized tests that are inherently racially and culturally biased. Another really interesting part of this episode, that I did know some about, was the gender bias...

Having four completely different generations working alongside each other in the workplace is something that is proving to be difficult for all of the different generations. With the Veterans/Silent, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y all existing and working together, the differences and struggles these generations have to work well together are becoming more and more prominent. As stated by Greg Hammill in this article, “Each generation has distinct attitudes, behaviors, expectations, habits and motivational buttons.” The way that Baby Boomers and Generation X’s communicate and look at the world, is far different than that of a Veteran or a Generation Y person. While sometimes, these different outlooks and ideas can be beneficial and help expand our worldview, it also creates a generational gap between people who are trying to work together towards a common goal. This is going to be something that only continues to happen as the times and the world change around us, and as...