Journal #6

The “dominant paradigm” that is showing wear is the old fashion classroom teaching styles. That includes old outdated books and lectures/work created by the teacher. Technology is on the rise and we have so much information at our finger tips if we just could gain the resources to use it. “Project-based learning involves completing complex tasks that typically result in a realistic product, event, or presentation to an audience.”(edutopia pg.3) Project-based learning involves completing complex tasks that typically result in a realistic product, event, or presentation to an audience. According to the article, “it is central to the curriculum, organized around driving questions that lead students to encounter central concepts or principles, focused on a constructive investigation that involves inquiry an knowledge building, student-driven, and authentic, focusing on problems that occur in the real world and that people care about,” In problem-based learning students take a different approach to problems. They work in small groups and take an active role in developing and executing a plan. People who take part in this strategy show strengths in developing a correct hypothesis. There have been few controlled group designs when studying learning by design. Learning by design pertains to students who create or design an artifact that has to do with the project that they are doing. It could be something like drawing a picture or creating a story. Students who strive in this strategy often show stronger scores in the basic classroom. It is important for the teacher to understand these three styles. Each student learns different and if the teacher knows how the student learn the best, they can be able to reach each student.

Double Journal #5

“The worst violator and the one that is most difficult for teachers to handle is the loud student. Confident in his own brilliance, hugely vocal, and often male, the dominant student does not seem to hear what another student or even the teacher has to say in discussion, so intent is he on presenting his own views. He speaks as if he has nothing to learn from others.”

• ·         Every class has the potential student that this quote describes. It is very important for the teacher to gain control of this situation early. I feel if a teacher is able to “nip it in the butt” and shut it down early in the year that it will help keep the class running smooth. Thought doing that will not solve the problem completely, even the loud student has relapses. If the teacher remains firm with this student should only be a small relapse. That type of student can really hinder how the other students take involvement in the class. Everyone should feel comfortable to interact in class but with a loud mouth rude kid, it could cause kids to be silent.

Reverent listening is portrayed by the teacher everyone likes and respects. Not because the class is easy but because of the characteristics that the teacher has and uses during their time with the students. They teach with great passion and love for the topic that they are teaching. Also the teacher respects and really shows that he/she cares what the students have to say. Teachers that show these characteristics are you ideal teachers in inclusive classrooms. They make everyone feel like they belong in the classroom and what they have to say is important and will be listened too.

“Reverent listening is not to be confused with humiliation and domination by others who force us to listen, and even less so, with the kind of incompetence that wants to be told what to do.”

• ·         This quote is the opposite of what reverent listening is. I can remember when teachers would treat the students who really did know what was going on like that. They wanted to learn and they couldn’t grasp what was being thrown at them. So instead of listening to their questions they just would quite them, treat them like idiots, and make them get down on their selves. This would cause the student to fall behind, then the student wouldn’t pay attention. Now the teacher would consider him the “bad kid.” He wouldn’t be the bad kid he, he was the kid who was suppose to act like he knew what was going on

 There is a book about teaching with these methods. The book is titles Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness 

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Journal entry 4

Students with an Appalachian background are subject to poorer test scores due to the difficulties they have when reading the questions of the test. Some teachers have even noticed that students hold back in writings because they fear that they will be judged due to their grammar and writing style. Other teachers who choose not to use inclusive teaching techniques often see this as students being lazy. They believe in not always correcting students when they use their certain dialect. Teachers should be responsible in knowing the students and developing ways to reach each individual student. INFORMATION LITERACY

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I am from the hills of West Bygod Virginia, from the only Mister Bees potato chip factory in the world and is sold at every little market. I am from the brick house with all the cars parked outside, because we are having a barbeque out back. I am from the Ohio River, that the cardinal flies over. I am from Sunday dinners at my grandparents’ house and we were raised to protect our own. I am from Mina, Butch, and Frankie. I am from the family who fights first and ask questions later, but will pick you up and dust you off when we are done. From the family were my grandfather changed our last name so people would not tease his kids the way he and his brothers were teased. I am from the church that went on at my family’s house at dinner on Sundays. The memories I have gained from those meals will live with me till the day that I die. I'm from Parkersburg where I had to go a few streets down to receive the best food in town, Mamal’s house! From the family that put each other first, the parents who raised me on strick family values, the family who taught me how to be a man, grandparents who taught me how to treat my parents. I was not just raised by my parents I was raised by a whole family I am from a long line of rough and tough Nolans. I was raised to treat ladies with respect. I learned to respect the land and my surroundings. I am glad to be a be a man with last name Nolan.

Journal Entry #2

“They worried that they would pass him along until he eventually dropped out of school, just as they did her and her husband had both done in the seventh grade.” This is very present in the education system still today. Teachers are faced with problems like this every year. They are challenged to make a difference, but when forced with one or two students that really struggle it easier to write them off as a student with a learning disability. They don’t say that they are mentally retarded, but say they have ADHD or ADD. Then they have a reason to just pass them on and it is no longer their problem. Not every teacher does this, but it does happen. It also does not mean that the teacher is not a good teacher. He/she might not be properly trained to be able to give their fullest and do not understand how to reach out to these students. This goes back to our first journal dealing with inclusive education. Literacy knowledge is something that kids do not even know that they have. According to the text As Soon As She Opened Her Mouth, kids understand that you look at a piece of paper with letters on it and it means something. They do not necessarily know how it works, but understand that when write with a pencil on a piece of paper, it can be read. That is an important step in the developmental level of children. They show better results as readers and more active learners as they grow if they have better literacy knowledge when entering their early years of schooling. Students who live in lower socioeconomic settings are more likely to struggle early on due to the fact that they reportedly do not see much of. This means that they are not around it as much. When children are raised in a higher socioeconomic environment, they seem to gain more literacy knowledge. They see their parents read and write more often and therefore gain a better start on understanding “the big picture.” Some teachers are guilty of just passing students along that struggle with the basic fundamentals of reading and writing. I believe that is a problem that can be fixed and at Fairmont State by starting to train future teachers and educating us about these problems that we will face will help with the solution. Some teachers are not aware of the problems due to ignorance and habitual styles of teaching. It is a new age and time for a change for the good. Proper English is the correct way to speak. We live in a world of slang and abbreviations which make it difficult to achieve proper English. Proper English is still used in our court systems, education system, and many other professions. ********************************************************************************************************** “This mythology has even been accepted by the people living here.” I do not believe this one bit. I for one do not think that people are starting to believe all of the nonsense labels that they attach to the Appalachian people. We do not give people to believe it and to me I think it is very immature and ignorant to think that we are a bunch of inbreeded hillbillies. People that think that are just uneducated on this topic and since we have the freedom to write, speak, and film whatever we want people with continue to believe this garbage. There is no mainstream positive message being delivered about our culture and where we came from. ***************************************************************************************************************