1. 40% of the total U.S. public school population is made up of students with color.
- I think that this is important because that's such a high number of colored students and it's almost equal.
2. Many children who are unused to books and being read to find it difficult to sit still for the time it takes a teacher to read even a fairly short picture book.
- This is important being it shows how not being familiar with reading can really set a child back and also make a distraction in the classroom. Every child should have an experience reading and with books.
3. If books are not compelling to children, then no amount of time spent on rhyming games, phonemic awareness exercises, or any other kind of literacy activity will result in their becoming proficient & empowered readers.
- This is important because it shows how much we need to keep the children interested in learning and in reading so that they can progress and learn more. Children need to want to learn and have a drive to learn new things or else they won't try, and in result they won't do well or do as well as they could.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
School visit
Friday was my first day visiting my school. Meghan and I carpooled there and we arrived at 9 a.m. At first I was a little nervous, but then as i entered my classroom I got very excited to be there. My teacher that I'm working with is named Mr. Willie Wonka and I'm in a third grade classroom working with two boys on reading. There is also an assistant teacher in my classroom named Ms. Bucket. While I was there, my class went to the book store and browsed for quite a bit, and then when they got back to the classroom it was time for a school assembly, and since I didn't get my training done right away, I didn't get to work with the kids at all. What I did do in the classroom before my training was I helped Mr. Wonka file papers and put children's worksheets in the appropriate folders. Overall, I think it was a good first visit and I am eager to go back when they children get back from their vacation.
Monday, February 15, 2010
White Privilege
Talking points on White Privilege, by McIntosh
Casey Martel
1. "As a white person, I realized I had been taught about
racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege which puts me at an advantage."
I think that this statement is important because it shows that her eyes have been opened up to the possibilities that have been granted to her and not to others because of their race. She takes into consideration all of the choices that she's had and all of the privileges that she could have recieved that she had never notices before.
2. "The pressure to avoid it is great, for in
facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country;
one’s life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own."
This quote is important because she is talking about how it's wrong for others to not get the same privileges in life as others. She thinks that everyone should get the same chances as everyone else and that people should be able to climb the social status by the work that they've accomplished and not by the color of their skin.
3. "I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in
individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in the invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth."
In this quote, she's talking about how she feels racism is not just being mean to somebody who is not white, she is talkign about how racism could be to ignore the fact that when you are born of a certain race, you get certain privileges. She feels that this privilege isn't known by many white people because they are born with it, but she feels that it is wrong and that things should not be this way in our society.
This article made me think about how we need to change the way we treat other people of different races. I think that we are born with a privilege that is higher than other races, and that we should give other races that same standard. I think that everyone should be treated equal and that the same doors that are open for one race should be open for all races. I think that McIntosh is right and that it is time for a change in the way we handle other races and the opportunities that we have over them.
Casey Martel
1. "As a white person, I realized I had been taught about
racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege which puts me at an advantage."
I think that this statement is important because it shows that her eyes have been opened up to the possibilities that have been granted to her and not to others because of their race. She takes into consideration all of the choices that she's had and all of the privileges that she could have recieved that she had never notices before.
2. "The pressure to avoid it is great, for in
facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country;
one’s life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own."
This quote is important because she is talking about how it's wrong for others to not get the same privileges in life as others. She thinks that everyone should get the same chances as everyone else and that people should be able to climb the social status by the work that they've accomplished and not by the color of their skin.
3. "I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in
individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in the invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth."
In this quote, she's talking about how she feels racism is not just being mean to somebody who is not white, she is talkign about how racism could be to ignore the fact that when you are born of a certain race, you get certain privileges. She feels that this privilege isn't known by many white people because they are born with it, but she feels that it is wrong and that things should not be this way in our society.
This article made me think about how we need to change the way we treat other people of different races. I think that we are born with a privilege that is higher than other races, and that we should give other races that same standard. I think that everyone should be treated equal and that the same doors that are open for one race should be open for all races. I think that McIntosh is right and that it is time for a change in the way we handle other races and the opportunities that we have over them.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
My First Blog
My name is Casey Martel, and this is my second semester at RIC. So far my classes this semester are going pretty good, I can't complain. When I'm not in class I like to hang out with my friends. I love Meghan Haggerty. Also, on Wednesdays I volunteer at an elementary school in East Providence. There, I help my roommate run a theater program that runs from after school at 2:30 until 4. This year, they are performing the play "The Wizard of Oz." That's pretty much it.
Bye. :]
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