This week I got to read Literacy With An Attitude by Patrick Finn. When reading the Preface, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 I realized the importance of making an engaging and observing your students in the classroom. By observing your students you can see if they need extra help on an assignment and find different teaching styles that could help them through their education. Make the students excited to come into your classroom. In high school, there were certain teachers that I loved going into their classrooms because they got the students excited to be there. When I was in a less engaging class it was hard to learn and was hurting my education. Being in an engaging and safe space classroom is important for a student's growth development.
Quotes from Literacy With An Attitude:
1) "The status quo is the status quo because people who have the power to make changes are comfortable with the way things are. It takes energy to make changes, and the energy must come from the people who will benefit from the change"(Finn, Preface).
I related this quote to "Precious Knowledge" because the students in the video wanted to make a change and fought for it. They didn't want their class to be taken away from the school system, so they held protests to keep the class alive. People can make a change if they continue to work for change.
2) "All of us teachers and students were locked into a system of rules and roles that none of us understood and that did not allow for much in the way of education"(Finn, p.5).
Each subject has a curriculum that a teacher has to create lesson plans for. The curriculum is designed to be adjusted to add to lesson plans if the students should know the material. The teacher can tweak the lesson plans to include student's interests so they can be more engaged in the classroom and also in society.
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Hi Taryn! I agree with you if the students did not do the work, then they will reserve a grade that represents their work. I learned this lesson the hard way when I barely put any work into an assignment and received a poor grade because of it. Now, I take the time and do the work because I want to succeed and do well.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you broke up your blog post into quotes and then an explanation on the quote. I agree how important it is to have a good relationship with your teacher. For example when I was in highschool I remember not paying attention in class when I had a teacher who was rude to the students.
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