Anti Racism vs. Culturally relevant
Over the past couple of weeks we've been talking about anti racism vs. culturally relevant, but my question is how do we as teachers handle a child who is that is being? How do we acknowledge racism in the class room without offending our students of color? When talking about racism I find it a hard topic to talk about because some people didn't do all the research on the topic and trying to talk to the class about it they honestly may not know what it is there really talking about and that may offend someone. Sometimes we don't like to be reminded about what happened in the past because honestly some people don't want to think about it or have the mind set that it happened in the past why are we bring it up? I know because I used to think that way in high school, but as I got older what happened in the past is what got me where I am today. I want to be able to talk to my students about it and how powerful it was and what people had to go through to get us all where we are today. I want to do a project with my students and see what there dreams are. Like Marten Luther King said" I have a dream." Well so do our students and with that being said that's one of my goals in life is to help children find there dream and to stick with it until they meet their dreams. Think about your childhood and ask yourself what was your dream growing up? Did you make your dream and if no why not? When I was a little girl all I wanted to do was become a teacher to help young children who have a disability. I've had so many teachers over the years that I wasn't going to be able to do it, I always thought it was because I was black to be honest, but here I am today working at New Horizon helping young children meet their goals.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016
Blog #4
I find it important to build relationships with our students, to me it shoes me that the teacher is really showing the student they really want them to succeed. In the video it showed that he went to check on his student even though he's not in his class anymore. To me I found that so sweet, and the fact he took his time to go and check on him, if he was struggling with anything he was willing to help him and that takes a lot of patients. We need to make sure that we are meeting our students needs, it's no fun when your that child that doesn't understand something and your scared to say something because you don't want people to make fun of you. I feel like some teachers say something once and expect the students to understand it the first time, but me that's not the way I learn. I need examples and people really need to give me a lot of details. I'm a hands on learner and I'm fully ready to have students like me in my class. I want to give my students as much one on one time as they need because I believe no child should be left behind. In the video it really showed me how important it is to be there for your student because that child might not get that attention at home.
blog #3
The video on our home page "testing bias produced by South High students" I've been in those students shoes and it's not fun. I do agree that a student should be able to choose how they want to test, for example I'm not the best test taker so I would want to take my test in a quiet room to take my time. I agree with Vichnet Chhuon when he said "students of color still don't the same privilege as white students." Being a mixed child has it's ups and downs, for example I'm not the color of my skin the way people judge me because of the color of my skin isn't okay. People think that because I'm mixed doesn't mean I'm not smart. Growing up I grew up with two different family's. My moms and my dad, on my moms side I have is black and Mexican and my dads is white. When I would go to my dads side of the family they would say things like how's your moms side doing as if they don't like them because of their race. I never understood it when I was younger, but now that I'm older it's as if they are ashamed of me because of my race. I love my race and where I come from I honestly wouldn't change anything about me. I just hate how people can try to judge you from the color and not to get to know you for who you are. I feel like some teachers that I had in my past thought of me less because of the color of my skin. When it came to taking test I would freak out and overthink and then I would fail because I spent so much time over thinking. I feel like that teacher thought because I'm black that I'm not able to pass my test, but in reality I just overthink when it comes to taking tests. I want to teach my students our classroom is a safe classroom and that everyone is welcome and that no one is going to judge therm.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Blog 7
Today we talked about the pedagogy and for some reason I felt uncomfortable. When we were talking about the different systems like for example the banking system. One of my questions in our small group was, how do teach our students the system without overwhelming them? When I was student growing up I questioned my learning because I was always overthink everything I did. So I as a teacher I'm going to try not to overwhelm my students because I know how it feels. We also talked about a course on campus American Indian. I took that class a couple of semesters ago and learned a lot. We talked about how the class was being taut by the teacher and I got upset because to me it seemed as if they were talking badly about the teacher, when they were really talking about how we should watch our words. For example the teacher uses words like "we and you did this." When as a student we didn't do anything we are trying to learn some thing new about that culture. As teachers when talking about race it's a taught topic to talk about, but it still needs to be talked about so our students understand what really happened back in the day. When hearing about other people sides on how they feel its okay to ask why do you feel this way vs keeping it inside just wondering about it later. How do we get questions out of that they maybe to shy to ask the question? I feel like we should teacher our students our classroom is a safe environment, so you shouldn't feel ashamed of the questions you may have. No question is a dumb question, I'm learning others may have the same question as you, they may just be waiting for some one else to ask it first. That doesn't always work though because if you don't ask the question it may not get answered. When walking into a classroom we should always encourage our students to start the off with an open mind and take deep breaths before class starts, it always helps me right before class.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
tech tool kit 5
Building a Math Center in an Early Childhood Special Needs Classroom
This is a seven minutes long video where it is explained how to build and set up a math classroom for special needs children. I believe that having the children play games is a tool to teach the students how to do math and not only learning math she is showing us how we can use different coloring actives to teach our students colors. I love that she played a game where the using toy dinosaurs teaching them the colors and using a graph to see how many colors there were of each color. I really think a child with disabilities will really be able to give this a try without over thinking about the math problem and just have fun while learning something new.
tech tool kit 4
Body Check Music Therapy in Autism
When I was working at Asoka Hennepin school district we had a specialist come out and do musical therapy with our special Ed classroom. The kids really enjoyed it, I think I will be using music therapy in my classroom. I think it will be a great idea, it will be a fun way to start off my students day. Music therapy to me is a way for my students to express what they are feeling through body movement. Something that I find hard at my center is that we don't let our students express themselves. For example i think we are all guilty of this, have you ever planned an art project but you lay out everything for your students in the place it went, but one of your students wasn't doing it the way you wanted so. You did it for them? So I ask did you let that child express them self? As a teacher we are going to make lots of mistakes, but that's okay no one is perfect. Life is filled of mistakes that's how we learn.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Tech tool kit 3
TECH TOOL KIT 1
Visual Aids for students with Autism
As a future Special Educator, I am interested in Autism students and how can I get into their minds in order to teach them.
Based on research, it is known that children who are autistic learn better using images and visual aids. Therefore, with this website I can find some sources to use with Autistic children.
In this website, it is explained some of the most common sources that can help students understand the procedures and rules inside the classroom.
Autistic children need more visual aids than the other students, therefore, with K-3 Special Education students, teachers can use these pictures and their students will understand the directions better than if they are only mentioned verbally.
Besides, the daily routine can be explained easily with these picture posted in the classroom and with small versions hanging them in our badge if needed.
In this image it teaches students when hearing the word no and understanding when it's appropriate to touch and not to touch things. When a child see this picture they will understand why they can't touch, it also keeps the child safe.
In this picture it shows children different ways to communicate and how they can use their words when asking different questions. I find this website very useful for teachers to use in the classrooms and even with children that don't have a disability.
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