Last Post!!!!! Social Justice

 How could Freire's pedagogy for the oppressed be applied to an inner city classroom?

We discussed the banking notion of education.   What is your reaction to this?  What do you think? 

  Paulo Stated: 
 This solution is not (nor can it be) found in the banking concept. On the contrary, banking education maintains and even stimulates the contradiction through the following attitudes and practices, which mirror oppressive society as a whole:

a.     the teacher teaches and the students are taught;

b.    the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;

c.     the teacher thinks and the students are thought about;

d.    the teacher talks and the students listen -- meekly;

e.     the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;

f.      the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply;

g.     the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher;

h.    the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it;

i.       the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;

j.       the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.

 Closing thought for you..... How will you change the world?

Comparing Special-ed Placement and General Education Placement; What did you learn?

Most of you have had the opportunity to have two very different placements.  How were they similar? How were they different?  Which did you prefer?  What were your take away lessons from each?  Have the experiences solidified what you hope to do in the future?

What do you do when lessons don't go as planned?

 

 

 

What have you done when a carefully thought-out lesson didn’t go as planned? When you felt certain your students understood a concept, but a formative assessment showed they didn’t? How did you address this “bump in the road”? What did you do to ensure your students learned what they needed to learn? What do you plan to do differently the next time?

 

Managing the Stuff of Teaching

 

Rutherford (2009) states that after the importance of establishing a positive classroom environment the next important thing that must be done is to examine how we manage the stuff of the classroom.

 … “That has to be combined with the eternal quest for systems that work for handling the paper flow to and from and within the classroom, facilitating the work of large numbers of people, and to not only acquiring the necessary instructional tools but also being able to find them when we need them!” (Rutherford, Just Ask Publications Website)

 

How are you handling the paper flow (papers, work communication with parents)?   What have you observed that works and what could use improvement?   What are your challenges in this area?

 

Rutherford, P. (2009).  Why didn't I learn this in college? .Alexandria, VA: Just Ask Publishing.

Assessment

 

 

1  What does your assessment look like?  What practices do you use to assess student learning.  Is evaluation and assessment different in your classroom?  How?

 

 

Classroom management

What kind of classroom management strategies do you use or see evident?  Or  What would you use in your future practice?

 

Some of you mentioned classroom management when you reflected on  the positive classroom environment evident.  Tonight we will focus on what is meant by a positive environment.  In this reflection discuss the management strategies you see evident and will use in the future.

Creating a Positive and Safe Environment

Reflection:   How are you  trying to create a positive learning environment in your classroom?


Tonight we had the session on safety in the schools.  What message did you take away from this workshop?