movie chalk

Chalk illustrates the charges that Freire & Gatto make in many ways,The movie Chalk is a story about the difficulties a teacher may be introduced to in our current educational process. Difficulties as diverse and boring teacher student interaction. Getting the students to pay attention in class. Or even getting the students excited about the class in general. In chalk there were several instances when teachers were having trouble engaging with their class. For example the gentleman who was a Software Engineer who said “after taking a personality, it was decided I would make a good teacher.” Obviously this guy has no communication skills at all. His class wonders about mentally while he does his best to capture their attention. The physical education teacher had to work extremely hard to even get her students off the bleachers the first day. I related to the boring & depressed atmosphere of the teachers lounge mentioned by Gatto in one of his writings. Several times there was a scene in the lounge, teachers we slouched on couches, complaining about their jobs and the students involved. It was a very direct representation of b both writings indeed.

important lesson i learned

The most important thing that I have learned is the fact that fighting is not OK. I grew up in southern California where all bad things happen gang fights drugs etc. when I was In junior high down there I was getting into trouble and fighting was the biggest thing, there was a lot of racial tension that was going on and I was stuck in the middle of it trying to protect my self. Times were rough down there. When I moved up too Washington state the habits came with me too and I thought I was tough shit. I got into three fights in my ninth grade and made a name for myself as being scary. Going through high school I didn't’t like that label at all and I wanted to change that. So the way I changed it was by getting involved with the student body and sports. From there on I turned to a big teddy bear J the lesson I learned was that I didn't want to be a negative person in my life  

traveling solo

"How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo" was nice to read due to the fact that traveling fascinates me. I plan to travel a large amount in my life. This narrative definitely showed a different format than the other narratives, it allowed for separate sections kind of like a quick "How to" lesson. This made it easy to read and more enjoyable. I loved how she expressed her exploring patterns and how she would go about it on her own, a nice walk to the park by yourself is nice now and again, but also seems to be as great way to get acquainted with a new location. I never would have personally thought about solo verses people time while traveling independently, but i also don't think i would travel on my own in the first place. As she said though, you cant sit around and wait for the right traveling buddy because that can be very difficult and take a long time. i loved the way she expressed her loving to travel enough to be independent enough to go on her own. it was inspirational to myself who would also enjoy traveling.

3rd and final paper :0

When was the last time you walked through the halls of a high school? Not too many of us if we are 25 and older. I can say for the adults who have children know what it is like. With the K-12 curriculum that we have now it seems almost difficult for all of the next generation to pass or go to college there is that many few who do. For the students that begin their journey they set themselves up for a repeated process for 12 year, getting up super early to sit in a class room for so many hours to get up the next day and do it again. School is so easy for K-7 because you’re just learning all of your basic stuff like math English science and etc. but soon as you step though the high school doors it is a different story.

            Student are all excited for the first day as a freshman because it’s a new school, new environment, new people, time to discover themselves. But what they don’t realize is how much work they need to put in to succeed in through 9-12. You start to see students fall of typically after their 10^th grade year. The reason why I state this is because I’ve been through the process. The school curriculum is way to difficult, as it should be, but it shouldn’t be so hard to where it is boring to the student and there grades are dropping off. It’s the same routine for them to be sitting in a class for 45min for 7 periods 5 days a week, and usually what is happening in the class room is the teacher teaching and explaining stuff and students falling asleep, or not grasping the full lesson.

            With the way this basic curriculum is in high school it was a set up for failure with our generation. A lot of the young adults that are in this 21^st century like to have things given to them and not work hard to earn whatever it is they want. The more students that drop out of school will more than likely not be successful. What causes the students in high school to lose focus and dropout of school or fail? According to the National Center of Educational Statistics website in 2011 the USA, 7 percent of registered students drop out or fail high school. With this being said something needs to change to where the current students in high school are guided correctly through there high school. The most difficult class to be taking in high school is math, now on a personal I know I’m not the only one out there who had problems with math. The issue that I would address is that we don’t have teachers on a daily bases who are willing to help(pretty much hold or hand through it) but there is no problem with that because some students need that, and isn’t the point of being a teacher is wanting to see our students want to succeed.

            The way I think the curriculum should change is that we start from scratch and rebuild. The K-6 should be taught the same with the basic learning things like your English, math, history, and science. Now getting to the 7-12 we should have a guidance teacher, one that can connect with the student on a basis showing that they care about your future and start your basic ed. Plan but not making it difficult to where the students turn away the whole point here is to make sure there having fun and they stay engaged with their schooling. A successful student is a happy student, the guidance teacher should have their own class room with the students to stay in communication with him/her students and always have an open door to talk or help with their education. The goal is to have an always positive teacher and never be negative. Because majority of the teachers out there can be negative and give up on the student.

The guidance we want is to never give up on their students and always push for the best. The teaching ways that should be applied is to be extremely active with their students at all times so they are grasping the knowledge being given. Now with that being said I also believe that this teacher should have a quiz at the end of the day and graded on spot and also does not affect their grade to make sure they understood what they had learned, if the students were to fail the quiz then the teacher would go over what they didn’t understand and have them retest.

At the end of each day we want to make sure we are producing success and not having the students going home and feeling frustrated and thinking there stupid and there never going to understand. It would be good to see having a student going home and telling their parent that they had a good day and there learning so much. One thing that should be kept in the school curriculum is soon has the student reaches the 11 grade they start exploring what route they want to take when the graduate and start looking into what they really want to do, because when your high school you don’t know what you want to do with your life all there worrying about is passing class and looking for the next best thing. So the senior project is a great thing to have because it sets the student up to be more engaged on what they want to do as a career. And in the senior year of high school it should be more focused on career training and providing them the help with help with the career they want right out of high school. With the guidance teacher they should provide contacts and links to help them get that opportunity.

By this point the guidance teacher would have established a relationship with their students. The curriculum would be such a great experience for the students because all they would need to know is the basic education and focus more on what they want to do with their life instead of feeding a bunch of knowledge that half of it won’t be applied to the real world anyways, I would want to see it be more or a career based schooling and training more than anything  

            With this process it would highly benefit every student out there because it would give them a head start to life. And it would be having them enjoying what they are doing instead of dreading what’s going on. Dreams do come true, and it starts in the class room we need more positive attitudes out there instead of neglecting ones. I want to see high graduation rates, high transfer rates, just success around. But it needs to be changed at the high school level, and at the rate it is going not to many are going to be successful and more and more are going to drop out or fail school. Think about it this is going to be the generation that will be taking care of us, we don’t want bums we want productive people. 

what author makes more since too me

Who do I like better, I would say  Barry Boyce because  School should focus more on life skills. You can give the student a great resume but what really matters is how they present it, and in school you do not learn that. Bell hooks Ideas of critical thinking should be taught as well. Keith Gilyard Investing in the schools programs for arts and humanities and even classes, because it will give students to strive for something in my opinion. Barry suggested that could have a large impact on the educational system. I agree on the rest of authors statements but strongly agree with Boyce, hooks and Gilyard.

how these 2 section will help me with paper 3

The two sections by Freire and Gatto are good examples for us to use on our third paper, they both go into detail about the different kinds of schooling and give a great statement on how schools now these days are basically in other words pointless. what we will be doing for our third paper is critiquing education, which these two did, they showed in each a well thought out argument as well as a well supported and persuasive knowledge about the educational system.

RANK 1-5

1.Bell hooks 2.barry boyce 3.Keith Gilyard 4. Deb Aronson 5. Jerry Large 

Black vs Rose

Lewis Black talks on "The Daily show" on the poor education system. he discusses the topic of charter schools being better schools widely more effective, but also being hard to get into and attend. Charter schools seeming to be more effective simply for the fact that they individualize to each student and set expectations for each. while Chalk teaches that public schools set low standards for the majority of students to be able to meet which brings the entire level of schooling down to accommodate its lower level learners. not nurturing the gifted kids talents. 

Mike Rose's Resolutions in Education, states "To stop making the standardized test score the gold-standard of student achievement and teacher effectiveness." this stuck out at the point in the movie chalk where the history teacher wanted badly to become teacher of the year. now obviously this was a comedy, but it showed how teachers are meant to push for their students scores to be the best to show their performance vs. things like student understanding comprehension and memorability on the subject. school systems are poorly judging the teachers and students efforts on scores. in this scene the students commented on how hard they each worked, even though they didn't win.

what i agree with

What do I agree with lol? honesty I haven't read a single thing in this English  class that I didn't agree with. It has all had some great ideas and directions we could head to. I guess I can relate more to Paolo Freier on his banking system. It seems more relevant that students have been stepping into the role of showing up, learn, memorize, test, move on, and repeat. It seems that teachers are more interested in what they can put into a student rather than how valuable it is going to be to the student. One thing that I think Freier forgot is that; with any amount of continuous teaching, you reach a cap. Thats the healthy learning environments are so effective. Teaching done by both parties where the students are allowed to give and receive, even if wrong it allows a more expressive and effect way of learning.

changes for schooling K-12

There are many things I can think of for possible change in the K-12 schooling. Yet at the same time I feel as if there is no general big fix that can be applied to see changes take place. I think that the educational system has spun itself into a circle that keeps feeding the negatives. In a system failure like this, I believe it would be better to start from the bottom. Build a new foundation and work our way back up. If you don't fix a lot of the core issues, we could essentially make small changes, end up seeing progress, but then the issue would most likely come back. Building a foundation on our educational system that starts with the bottom would allow us to build up, try new concepts without fear of losing years in a children's education. For example, if we tried a new way of learning in a fourth grade classroom with a secure foundation, even if the new way of learning wasn't received as well as we would have the foundational educational backing to still provide the fourth graders with a proper program. There are a few changes that would need to be set up prior for this concept to even work.