Blog 7 (Chapters 11&12) Essence Extractor & Idea Illustrator
--Essence Extractor--
"Developing the right attitudes in parents, students, educators and administration is the key to a successful education for ALL STUDENTS!"
--Idea Illustrator--
"The most effective development we realized as a staff was that we developed a can-do attitude about all of our children and then showed them the way to succeed. Once they knew that we believed they could, their energy was unstoppable" (p. 130).
-->Developing a positive attitude and maintaining a positive attitude is crucial in all schools, especially schools that educate low SES students. Our students need to believe in themselves and one step is showing them that we believe in them as well.
DEFICIT PERCEPTIONS- "Many teachers do not understand the effects of poverty on school readiness and, as a result, accept the inevitability of impending failure for children of poverty- these teachers exhibit deficit perception" (p. 10).
-->As teachers we need to get to know who are students really are and what their home life is like. Without this knowledge, we are teaching with a blind eye and short-changing out students. We must never assume!
SUCCESSFUL INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR EQUALIZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW SES STUDENTS:
--> Immediate Intervention
--> Be Proactive
--> Continuous formative assessments
--> After School Instruction
--> Summer School programs that focus on the upcoming curriculum
--> An atmosphere where students feel safe and confident
--> Differentiated Instruction
--> Hand-On manipulatives, discovery learning, & project-based instruction
Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteI like your extracted essence. It captures the essence of the whole book really... We ALL need to work together and stop playing the blame game. We want to create a positive and in doing so, goodness shall prevail.
I really like that picture of the eyeball... it's beautiful colors with a hint of trippy. On a more serious note, it's cool because it shows a cultural perception within itself... someone seeing and recognizing all colors... Sweeeeeet.
Stephanie,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you came back around to deficit perceptions of teachers. I agree that as teachers we need to really know our students and not just assume. Teachers often say, "Oh, just wait til you get that student." These statements are negative and don't serve a real purpose. A good attitude is something we all need to be reminded of a little more often.
Melissa R.