check for understanding by Natylee Ziolkowski

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:08:58 UTC

From your perspective, what issues, facts, values, and perceptions did the readings or films changed for you personally?

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:21:54 UTC

I learned that red-marking a youth's language in their writings can be dangerous and invoke a negative connotation to languages for them causing them to be less likely to turn things in. I relearned the connection to standard English and colonialism, the idea that if you do not speak the language well then you are stupid. I unlearned the idea that “slang” is not grammatically correct and that giving it the term “slang” is harmful.

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:22:17 UTC

“I worry about sending you, my black son, to a school that over enrolls black boys into special education, criminalizing them at younger and younger ages, and viewing them as negative statistics on the dark side of the achievement gap.”

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:22:46 UTC

Even if the child has a high school level education does not mean they are ready to perform at that level because of the language barrier, but that does not mean they are stupid.

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:23:10 UTC

There is a difference between how students will talk based on their surroundings, this can impact their writing. The ways in which you talk to your friends is completely different from the ways in which you write a paper, but because of their young age the two may and most likely will overlap.

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:23:39 UTC

The understanding that based on the backgrounds that students are coming from may mean that their education understanding is at different levels. Instead of continuously letting them opt out or letting them fail, dig deep, figure out what you can do as the educator to help the student so they aren't continuously failing.

natyleewinter35 — 2024-01-17 19:23:58 UTC

“He fought in a war he didn't want to, that why i am here and you are here, that’s why some people look at us and don't know why we are here and sometimes that makes us feel like we don’t know either”