https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r en-us 2022-01-14 19:26:16 UTC 2022-03-30 20:30:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f920.png stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/1992966095 For this weeks encounter I am choosing to talk about the fear many students now hold when going to school because of recent school shootings. 
To start things off I should say that no child should ever be afraid to go to school. Schools are supposed to be a place where you learn and a place that is filled with your best friends and teachers who support you and make you feel safe. Being at school feels like a safe haven to many students who do not have a great at home life, but now how are these students supposed to feel when they hear that a kid shot up his own school and killed kids who he went to class with everyday? 
The most recent school shooting in Michigan was the Oxford school shooting. What is most scary about this shooting to me is not only that the shooter was a current student at the school, but that he proceeded to plead not guilty in court. After killing innocent students he stood up at court and said that he was not guilty, knowing he took the lives of multiple classmates. 
During our first class on Wednesday we did not talk a whole lot about certain topics but more talked about what we will be doing over the course of the semester. Being a future teacher one thing that I constantly think about is how I am going to keep my students safe. There is the obvious things like going over certain drills and keeping doors locked but in reality how would I protect my students from a real threat? Thinking about this scares me but I want to be a teacher who always makes my students feel safe, and be a teacher who never stops trying to make schools and classrooms a safer place. Safety is currently a huge issue in education and something I strongly care about. I hope in this class we will get the opportunity to talk about current school safety issues and talk about our fears for safety when becoming a teacher. 
This relates more back to my TE 102 class when talking about white privilege in schools and in disciplinary cases. Ethan Crumbly was not shot or hurt by police, while many African American people are shot and hurt by police for doing a way less serious crime than a school shooting, or no crime at all.]]> 2022-01-14 19:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/1992966095 stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2001599340 When thinking of boarding schools I think about my three year experience (10th, 11th, 12th grade) at my boarding school, Culver Academy. My three years at Culver were filled with sports, academics, meeting new friends, traveling every weekend across the country for my hockey games, and many many more amazing memories made with friends that will be a part of my life forever. So, when I first heard "Indian Boarding Schools" Brought up in class today I though, 'No Way! I wonder if the kids had fun like I did!' Boy was I wrong. These Indian boarding schools were horrid. Children were forced to be sent to the boarding schools. The whole idea of these boarding schools were to make the Indian children more American and to learn about the American way of life. 
The people running these boarding schools basically wanted to get rid of any way of the Native Indian way of life. They though that the American way of life was just so much better that they were going to force young children, who were not even born as Americans, to become American. The people who ran the boarding schools gave all the children new 'white names', cut off all the long braids any children had, gave them uniforms, got rid of any tribal life the children brought with them, any traditional Native foods were abandoned, and all the children forbidden to speak their Native languages. These boarding schools practically brainwashed the children into becoming American and living the American way of life. 
This topic of Indian Boarding Schools related back to class today when talking about colonization. Colonization is the action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people(Native Americans). The owners of the Indian Boarding schools established control over the Native Americans and let them have practically no say in how they wanted to live or even where they wanted to live now that their land had been settled upon when it was their land first. ]]> 2022-01-19 22:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2001599340 stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2014655077 When I think about my time in school before college I think about classrooms filled with smiling kids laughing and joking around before class began. Going to my favorite class would always brighten my day because I got to sit next to my best friends and just talk about our weekend plans and the current gossip. 
For this weeks encounter I chose to write on an article that talks about immigration enforcement and how it is leaving countless students fearful that one day they will come back and some of their classmates will not be in their chairs because they got deported or even that they themselves or their family will get deported. One thing that really stuck out to me in the article was when the reporter said that a 6th grade student and his mother cannot get healthcare because she is undocumented. Her kidneys are failing and since she cannot get healthcare here she struggles everyday with deciding whether or not she should go back to Mexico to get the healthcare she needs but she fears that if she leaves she will not be able to get back to America to be with her son. I cannot imagine being a mother who moved herself and her son to America for safety and to make a better life for her son, but not be able to get the proper care that I need. No child should ever be in fear that one day when they go to class the classmate they always sit next to is gone because their family got deported late last night. No child should ever be in fear that their parents will get taken away from them.
This article relates back to class today when we talked about equity and immigration in education systems. We talked about how equity is not the same as equality and when we become teachers that we need equity in our classrooms, not equality. Equity is giving each person what they specially need, what accommodates to their needs, while equality is giving everyone the exact same things. Equity is important in classrooms because what works for one student may not work for another students. Equity ties into immigration because if you have a student who you know who's family is here illegally, but for the better, you need to be an advocate for them and you may even need to stay with them after class while their mom works late, or bring them an extra snack because money has been tight at home. Bringing this student a snack lets them participate in snack time with their friends which is equity, everyone gets what they need but in the way it accommodates to their needs. While other students see this students getting 'special unequal treatment', you need to remind them that things you do to help benefit other students may not be things that all students get because certain students need more help than others. ]]> 2022-01-26 22:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2014655077 stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2026339333 Being a native English speaker I have never had to deal with the frustration of trying to learn English, while going to an English speaking school. In middle school I took Spanish and in high school I took French but those acted more are fun electives. I chose to take Spanish and French because it thought it would be fun to learn a little but about the languages and learn how to speak a little of them. 
I never realized how much students struggled with going to an English school when English was not their first language until I went to boarding School. I went t school with many kids who's first languages were Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Seeing my classmates having to work almost twice as hard as me in class to understand the information the teacher was teaching us, but also having to understand what the teacher was saying in English. Most often it takes ESL students extra time to process what teachers are saying in English. 
The article I linked to this encounter gives 12 ways to support ESL learners in the classroom. All 12 points are very helpful but my favorite one is to learn about the cultural background of your students. It is important as teachers to show your students that you care about them and even though you may not experience where they are from and the language they know best first hand. Learning more abut where your students cultural background will show them that you are putting in effort  to help them and that you are trying to understand the frustration they may feel when being in an English speaking school. 
This article relates back to class today, 2/2, when we watched the short film about Moises and his struggles in school. Immersing into an English speaking school was very difficult for Moises and not having total support from his classmates and other teachers did not make it any easier. 
As a future teachers I will always go above and beyond to make ALL my students feel like they belong. I will treat them with EQUITY and show them that I am here for them.]]> 2022-02-02 21:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2026339333 stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2038930009 When I think about school during grades K-12 what makes one grade or class stand out to me more than others is when I had a good relationship with that specific teacher. Having a fun and trustworthy relationship with my teachers made my days and classes way more enjoyable. Going into class knowing that my teacher supported me and that we respected each other made me more excited to go to class. The article I linked gives five awesome ways to help teachers establish a healthy relationship with their students. Out of the five ways the two that stood out to me the most were, 1. Establish respect first. I believe that it is extremely important to talk to your students about respect when the school year first starts out. As a student they need to respect you and understand that you have authority over them, but as a teacher you also need to respect all your students and listen to them as well. Your students are there tolerant from you while you are also there to learn from your students. The second point that stood out to me was, 4. Get to know your students. As a teacher it is important to get to know each of your students, not just get ton know them in the classroom but also get to know more about their real life outside of school. Doing this will help your students know that you care about them and that they can trust you and come to you with problems that relate to life outside of school if they do not have another trusted adult in their life. It is important to know more about your students so that you can respect them and help them be their true authentic selves. This article relates back to class today when we did the jamboard activity with the quotes. The quote that I believe relates to this article is, "No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so” (p. 85). If you do not take the time to get to know your students and develop a healthy relationship with them then you are missing out on being able to support them from being who they are. Getting to know your students will give you the opportunity to be taught more about their lifestyles and maybe they will even teach you how to help support them. ]]> 2022-02-09 21:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2038930009 stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2051936926 Personally I have never experienced what it is like to be mistreated because of my skin color, so I cannot relate to this article or topic at all on a personal level, but I can express my feelings about it. Since a young age I have always been told that just because someones skin color is different does make them different, which I mean yeah that is true. But why are we being told this from such a young age. Having this idea in the back of our minds since a young age has always made me wonder why we are taught to not treat colored people differently, and why we are not taught instead to treat EVERYONE, with no name calling, equally. 
This article talks about how teachers bias against black students first begins in preschool. Imagine sending your child to school only to find out that their teacher is racist and punishes your child more violently just because of the color of their skin. Imagine how scared some 5 YEAR OLDS are to go to school because of how their first ever teacher treats them. When a student gets bullied because of their skin color they never will forget it. Preschoolers are starting out their school career wondering why their teachers don't like them. Because of that they will most likely always hold a little fear that their teachers will not support them. 
This article relates back to the film we watched in class today, Pushout. This film tells the story of a girl who got bullied by her teacher when she was only seven years old. Her teacher bullied her because of the color of her skin. This is what is wrong with some of the current teachers in our world today. As a future teacher my peers and I need to recognize the problems in our education systems and educate ourselves on how to be the best and most supportive upcoming teachers.

]]> 2022-02-16 21:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2051936926 stoudtma1 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2064950624 Starting at a young age I always had this idea in my head that my teachers needed to like me. I would constantly talk to them and try to become 'friends' so that they would like me. I thought that if my teachers liked me then as was well in the world. I could never imagine coming to school and feeling as if my teachers did not enjoy it when I talked to them or if they acted uninterested in what I was telling them. In the book Troublemakers, Shalaby writes about a young boy named Marcus who is having trouble feeling wanted by his teacher. He always wants to talk to her or be involved in other classrooms or even helping out his teacher or others. Often this behavior would get shut down by his teacher. He was told to sit out in the hallway or that he was not allowed to go help out in other classrooms. Marcus just wanted to be heard and seen by his teacher. He wanted this special attention because he was not always getting it at home. I chose to write about this as my padlet this week because something I strive to be as a future teacher is a teacher who teachers all her students with love and acceptance. I will strive to get to know my students home life as well as their school so I get a better understanding of why they act as they do at school. I never want any of my students to feel like I don't hear or see them. In TE class yesterday we talked about teaching with love, Shalaby writes about it in her "Letter To Teachers". I loved this part of her book and will hold the things she talked about in that letter with me forever. Students should go to school and feel excited to talk to their teachers and not be afraid to speak up around them. And ad future teachers we need to be there for our students, ears and hearts wide open. ]]> 2022-02-24 17:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2064950624 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2096441059 In this article Keith Meatto talks about how racial segregation in school systems is still currently happening in almost every state and how it is important to teach about segregation, rather than push it aside.. Although public racial segregation has been illegal for a little over 68 years, many public schools remain immensely separate and unequal. If the ruling of Board vs. Brown of Education was set to place in 1954 then why are millions of black parents continuously having to think of the best, least segregated, school to send their children to so that they may be treated like all other students, and not as an issue. This article goes to show that even though schools may been racially inclusive, you do not know what goes on behind the scenes or how students of color are treated, unless you are a student of color. Being a white student who comes from an all white family these issues have never even crossed my mind, which goes to show how racial segregation was obviously not taught well in school when I was growing up. Racial segregation needs to be taught in all school, starting at a young. If young kids begin to learn about segregation early on then they will be more educated on the topic when they get older and may experience first hand experiences with it. In either the last class before spring break or the one the week prior we watched a short film about a young black girl who got bullied at school by her teachers. No one around her knew what was going on and neither did her parents. She would come home from school daily sad about school and saying how she did not want to go back. It was not until she ran away from school one day and her parents had to go find her, because the school would not, that they finally listened to her and realized what was going on. If segregation was being taught in her school and all teachers/stuff/students were being education of racial segregation then other students/teachers would have hopefully been more aware of the situation that was going on. Better yet this teacher would never of been hired or hopefully fired sooner. Teacher segregation school wide will educate students and teachers on the past problems with school segregation, how far we have come from then, but also the current problems with school segregation and the steps we all need to take to hopefully diminish all segregation in school systems one day. ]]> 2022-03-15 17:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2096441059 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2109955842 Talking about politics can be uncomfortable, especially when talking to those who are on the opposite side of you. But what is even more uncomfortable than talking about politics is talking about politics when you do not know what you are talking about, which can also be embarrassing. In this article Larry Ferlazzo talks about how politics belong in the classroom, which I agree with. In this article Ferlazzo says, "Keeping politics out of the classroom does not prepare students for civic life. Placing limits on conversational topics that could bubble to the surface at any point tells these citizens that no one is invested in hearing their opinions. That destroys democracy". Politics that relate to current events and that relate to both sides should be talked about in classrooms so that students are aware of what is going on in the political world. Talking about politics in the classroom could also help many students come more to a conclusion on which side they are on, or if they are more neutral. Most kids get their first political views from their parents, which may not always be what they actually believe in, but since their parents are preaching it they think they they also have to believe it. Having a second source other than parents is important to help kids generate their own beliefs. 
Recently in TE 102 we have been talking a lot about politics as well as in my TE 101 class last semester. We have touched on how it is important to hear both sides of politics and to make sure you always listen to the side 'you do not support'. Although you may have not voted democrat it does not believe you do not support some things the Democratic Party believes in, and just because you may have not voted republican, it does not be you do not or not can not support some things the Republican Party believes in. 
Talking about politics in the classroom is important for students to prepare them for civic life, or life when they are allowed to start voting. Straying away from talking about politics is classrooms will only leave most students less educated on politics and current political events happening in our world. ]]> 2022-03-23 15:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2109955842 https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2122263317 For my last weekly encounter for this class I decided to talk about something that concerns me when I think about my future as a teacher. We have not talked greatly about this in class but I figured it something that most of us in the class think/worry about. 
In this article it talks about how in 2019 the average teacher salary decreased by 4.5% over the past decade. If anything I think the the teacher salary should be increasing considering how there will always be schools and kids that need to have teachers. Recently schools have been overfilling and kids have had to go on waitlists and classrooms have been increasing in population, but teachers still continue to get paid around 44 grand a year. Professional athletes get paid millions of dollars to just play a sport while teachers work effortlessly to support their students each year and work even harder with student athletes to make sure they get into the colleges they want to. In the article it also talks about how many teachers have to get side jobs and summer jobs so that they can support their families. 
There are so many things to say about this topic but the only think I keep circling back to is the broad question of, "Why?" Why do teachers not get paid more? And the simple answer is because most teachers love their job. They love to see students succeed and follow their dreams, just like they did. 
When deciding what I wanted to major in I always circled back to being a teachers because it is what I have dreamed of since I was young. People often ask me why I want to be a teacher when the pay is not great, and all I can say is that because I cannot see myself doing anything else. I want to be apart of program where I show up everyday because I love what I am doing. Hopefully everyone in our TE 102 class gets to be apart of a change in the education system salary and we continue to pursue what we love. ]]> 2022-03-30 20:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/stoudtma1/bt8klkmya4ioup7r/wish/2122263317