Respond to: You want to be a what?
“Effective educators at all grade levels possess something more significant than content knowledge: a deep understanding of their students.” Continue reading Knowing your students!
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The insufficiency in basic resources could greatly hinder the efficacy of mentoring system!
Respond to: Caring Connections: Mentoring relationships in the lives of urban girls
“Until the basic resources in urban communities are improved—the schools, neighborhoods, health and child care settings, employment opportunities, and so forth—the influences of adult supports or any other supplementary resources on the life trajectories of most youths will remain limited.” Continue reading The insufficiency in basic resources could greatly hinder the efficacy of mentoring system!
“at promise” Not “at risk”
Respond to: Re-Writing/-Righting Lives: Voices of pregnant and parenting teenagers in an alternative school
“Pregnancy itself is recast as a site of transformation that sets the course of potentially meaningful lives to unfold.” Continue reading “at promise” Not “at risk”
Queer pedagogy, just one aspect to nurture critical thinking skills!
Respond to: There are transsexuals in our middle schools!
“To queer is to venture into controversial, intellectually complicated, nuanced terrain with students. It requires faith that middle school students in a public school such as mine not only can, but must, learn to grapple with complexity if their education is going to provide opportunities, rather than impose insurmountable limitations.” Continue reading Queer pedagogy, just one aspect to nurture critical thinking skills!
Turning stereotyping into a joke!
Respond to: The impact of stereotyping on Asian American students.
“Asian American students also have been found to go to great lengths to downplay physical traits that are associated with being Asian.”
One Asian American girl says in this chapter that in order to be more Americanized, she chooses to change her hair color and also to get colored contact lenses. Which strikes me a lot! Continue reading Turning stereotyping into a joke!