My MVP for this week comes from Dr. Doucet’s article “(Re)constructing Home and School: Immigrant Parents, Agency, and the (Un) Desirability of Bridging Multiple Worlds. “Bridging is not value neutral. Educators at every level need a model of family—school relations that acknowledges power and the potential loss of it (for both sides) through bridging. Intercultural relationships require certain risks.” Continue reading Power and the Teacher/Parent Relationship
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Youtube and the language classroom
My goal through this research project was to deconstruct the use of YouTube and analyze its role in World language education. Based on my initial research, the use of youtube videos in the classroom seems to have an overwhelming positive outcome in students’ achievement Continue reading Youtube and the language classroom
Raising Awareness
My article for this week focused on using media curriculum as a critical consciousness raiser. By raising awareness, students learn to read the word and the world. The text presented an interesting study that took place in California that illuminated the students understanding of Chicano/as protrayol in entertainment media. While the study was thought provoking, my MVP from this week comes from the introduction of Frier’s model of critical pedagogy. Continue reading Raising Awareness
A Changing World for Young Adolescents
I chose my MVP from “Who Am I? The Social, Emotional and Identity Trials of Young Adolescence” particularly because it made me wonder even more about the factors leading to Tylor Clementi’s suicide.
“The young adolescents’ world has changed: new lifestyle and new ways of thinking, values, and ideas are continually presented. The peer group is the primary source of new standards and models of behavior. Being part of the group helps young adolescents develop different points of view and try out new ideas. “ Continue reading A Changing World for Young Adolescents
Rethinking the school day
I wish I (and my parents) knew about this information when I was a “tween.” I was most struck by the information Carskadon provided about the amount of sleep adolescents need and the change in the release time of melatonin throughout puberty. I shared this information with my cooperating teacher and she said, “Oh, yeah, that’s why some progressive schools start later than normal public schools.” If we have this information, why is it only the progressive schools that aim to adju Continue reading Rethinking the school day