What is worth learning?
My blackout poem starts off with "Small child, missing, incomplete." This is the tragic representation of a student who is being marginalized in their classroom at school. Students are isolated and pushed aside and acted against through a violent curriculum. To rebuild our curriculum in a way that prioritizes our students' challenges, we must critically analyze our previous teaching and determine whether it has detrimental consequences for communities across our country. We cannot undo what has occurred in the past, nor should we strive to forget it. We must experience the grief and carry it with us as a continual reminder to fight for our pupils until they all receive the education that is best suited to their cultural requirements.
The most important thing to learn is how to hear our students and solve any concerns they may have, as well as how to respect the values and views of others and teach them while not leaving anybody uncomfortable. The effectiveness of how we alter our curriculum to match the requirements of the children inside our spaces is reliant on our capacity to become in tune with the forces that have molded their thoughts and perceptions. We have the ability to destroy our students' identity and consciousness if we do not make an effort to learn how they perceive the world and educate them from a position that is congruent with their understanding. Teachers need to learn to listen and learn to educate their students properly and with care.
Hey Avery, I really enjoyed your blog this week. I think the way your poem starts off with "small child, missing, incomplete" is pretty powerful. I agree with you that our curriculum needs work in rebuilding to fit the students needs. As a future educator, I would never want my students to feel like they are being marginalized by the curriculum that is being taught. I wouldn't want my students to feel like they don't have a place where they can't say what is on their mind on the topic. I think if we listen to our students like you mentioned we would gain more positive engagement to what is being taught. You are correct in saying that we can not change the past but we can alter and change what we hope the future has in store. Giving our students a voice, being the type of teacher that doesn't put a student down or in their place for having a different view but being supportive and listening to their views and hearing what they have to say while teaching content that may be difficult to perceive and comprehend. I think your blog turned out wonderful and had great thoughts which I think you hit spot on when it comes to being an educator in your own classroom.
ReplyDeleteHi Hannah, thanks for your response! I couldn't agree more that we as teachers need to be giving our students a voice and be the type of teacher that doesn't put our students down. This means through our curriculum, actions, and words.
DeleteHi Avery! I think the three first words in your blackout poem are very powerful and definitely represent marginalized students. I agree with you, we need to go back and rebuild the curriculum and analyze what has worked in the past and what has not. We can not undo it but we should make it our goal to learn from it and not let it repeat itself in the future generations. As you stated, the most important thing we can do is to take the time to listen to our students because we are their voices and we should take their input seriously. As a future educator, I never want any of my students to feel like they are being marginalized. My goal is to make my classroom a safe and comfortable environment for all my students. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I enjoyed reading your blog this week!
ReplyDeleteHi Emily, I definitely agree with you when you said that we as teachers need to go back and rebuild the curriculum as much as we can and re-analyze what has worked in the past and what no longer is acceptable to remain the same.
DeleteHi Avery! I really enjoyed reading your post this week! The opening lines to your poem are extremely powerful and moving and instantly grab your reader's attention, or at least it did for me. I completely agree with your point, many students don't look forward or find joy in going to school anymore and it's devastating. So many children are ignored or misunderstood and are left feeling hopeless. I agree that we need to make a change in schools and in the curriculum so every student is being included, cared for, and provided the best education possible.
ReplyDeleteHi Ana, thanks for your feedback! I agree that students can be completely pushed aside or ignored in curriculum and this leads to a lot of dangerous situations for out future students.
DeleteHi Avery! I think your phrase from your blackout poem was a wonderful representation of what this module discussed. Through this module, I've really learned what violent curriculum really means, and it is awful that our students have to endure it. I also really like that you pointed out how we cannot undo what is in the past, but we also should not forget about it. We need to take the events that have occurred in the past and create a better future from it. As future teachers, we can absolutely make that change, and like you said, be willing to hear our students' concerns and worries within the classroom. Another thing I liked about your post is how you stated that we need to be aware of what has shaped our student's lives and molded the way that they think. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHi Mallorie, I had a sad realization reading the content in this module about violence in curriculum as well. It's a major wake up call and I think it should be a wake up call to us all.
DeleteHi Avery, your blog post this week was very thoughtful and intriguing. I liked the phrase that you made from the excerpt in your black out poem. It really showed what we talked about this week in the lesson. I didn't really have anything close to what you said in my poem, but I can relate what you created back to the module. I agree that the curriculum in schools needs some improvement, a violent curriculum is not the way to start the change. All students should be treated equally and no one should be pushed aside. I believe a big change that needs to be made is if a teacher thinks a student shouldn't be moved to the next grade they should really reflect on that decision. I also believe that students should be treated with care and we can't change the past but we can certainly help the curriculum for the future.
ReplyDeleteHi Haley, thank you for your response. I really love that you noted on how students should be treated with care and we can't change the past but we can certainly help the curriculum for the future. I couldn't agree and more and I think this is super important to remember when in the teaching profession.
DeleteHi Avery! You have made some good points in your post! In order to fix our curriculum we have to start from scratch. We can't erase our past like you said, so we must just learn from it and move on. So we can help our students I think it should start with helping our teachers! I think we need to better educate them on topics such as how to culturally teach them in our classrooms. Once they receive that kind of training I think we could do a much better job in helping our students learn as they go through each grade level. This is important because they will be able to figure out their identity which I think will help them be a better citizen in our communities.
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