Throughout the SED course, Grace told us many stories of her experiences with developmentally disabled children. Although she worked in various places, I do not think that I could work with the low functioning group. I do think that I have patients, enough to work with children; I just do not think that my purpose was to work with low functioning children. However, I do realize that I will have many learning disabilities throughout my classroom. I also know that everyone learns on a different level and at a different pace. With this I will incorporate many ways of learning into my curriculum along with all of the other things that I have realized that needs to be in my lesson plans. Learning about the Maine Learning Results was very helpful, knowing that I will have to incorporate this into my curriculum when I become a teacher.

I think the most interesting part of the course was when we had the panel with the three teachers. Two of them were first year teachers and another woman had been teacher for over 40 years. Originally I wanted to teach a kindergarten class, but after hearing the panel discussion I’ve been thinking about teaching a high grade level. Maybe middle school, but I haven’t exactly thought it through yet. Maybe I will decide to do my practicum in a middle school.

diversity

Diversity is something very important in our society today. Diversity consists of different people coming together to be able to learn and work in the same environment. The different forms of diversity consist of culture, race, religion, socio economic status, gender, interests, sexual orientation, learning styles, disabilities, languages, and even their strengths and weakness. In the past people with these differences were not able to feel like they worked or learned in a safe environment. I think that our society today has changed since then. There is some people that don't believe that things should be diverse, but in today's society everyone has so many differences from each other and i believe that we should be able to except these differences as part of them, and not judge the person by their ability or inability. In the movie "Freedom Writers", the teacher was able to get her students to look pass each others differences and they all felt like it was the safest environment that they have ever been in. They like this so much that they all fought for the teacher to be able to be their teacher for the following years of their high school career. They learned how to work together to get what they wanted. I want the children in my classroom to be able to work together no matter their differences, and i want them to be able to feel like they are safe in my classroom.

all about Friedrich Froebel and Marain Edelman

Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel was born on April 21, 1782 in the town of Oberweissbach, Germany. His mother died when he was only nine months old, and his father, who was a pastor, left him on his own. He lived with his uncle in Stadt-llm, Germany. He grew up loving nature and was briefly responsible for maintain a forest. After he was jailed for debt, he joined the military and became friends with H. Langenthal and W. Middendroff. Together they opened up a school in 1816. Here Froebel put his educational theories into practice. In 1837, the Swiss government offered him a job, training elementary school teachers. He later returned to his school with new insight, and opened an infant school in Prussia and called it Play and Activity Institute. He later renamed it Kindergarten. He also created geometric blocks and pattern activity blocks. Froebel was responsible for the kindergarten movement across Europe and it bloomed in North America. (Friedrich Froebel; Robert Bingham Downs)

Marian Wright Edelman was born on June 6, 1939 and lived most of her life in Bennettsville, South Carolina. She went through many years of school, including Yale Law School, which she graduated from in 1963. In the same year, she became the first African American woman admitted into the Mississippi Bar. She worked in New York with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and then moved back to Mississippi when the organization did. In 1968 she married the civil rights attorney Peter Edelman, who was also the chairman of New World Foundation. In 1973, she founded the Children’s Defense Fund. Her mission was, “to leave no child left behind and to ensure every child a healthy start, a fair start, a safe start, a moral start in life, and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. She has received many awards including, MacArthur “genius” award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and more than 65 honorary degrees. (Great African-American lawyers : raising the bar of freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford )

national defense education act

The National Defense Education Act was passed in 1958 to give aid to all schools, private and public. It was made to provide aid to be able to teach more of the core subjects, like mathematics, social studies, English, and science. It also provides aid in many other areas such as geography, and programs that have English as a second language. They provide money to the schools libraries, guidance centers and media centers. The government has recently decided that they want to update this act to in cooperate new technology within the act.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0834940.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Education_Act

http://www.aau.edu/education/NDEAOP.pdf

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

about me!

I look back on my childhood and think of the many mistakes that I have made, and there are a few that stick out to me that I believed that have changed me, or shaped me to be who I am. One of these instances happened less then a year ago. This might seem like a cliché, but honestly it was when I and my boyfriend started dating. We were friends for a few years, and neither of us would have ever thought that we would be together now. Before dating Joe, I was dating another guy that, not to my knowledge at the time, treated me well. I was falling for him so bad, but he just wanted me for sex, as any other teenage male does. He cheated on me several times, without me knowing. When I found out I blew it off thinking he was going to change. Well, let’s just say he didn’t. I later realized this and many close friends gave me the courage to leave him. A few months later, Joe and I started dating, and I would never have realized how good he is to me. He made me realize that I didn’t deserve a jerk for a boyfriend, and I’m glad we are together and I know it will last. He is currently in Missouri, for basic training for the National Guard. He doesn’t come home until December, and I can’t wait until he does.

When I started high school, I was a very shy girl. I didn’t talk much, and I mostly kept to myself. I did have good friends, but this shyness carried with me until the summer before my junior year. I started working at a local family restaurant that specialized in pizza. Working here, I met a lot off different people. And when I mean different, I mean different. Here I broke out of my shell and took control of what I had to do. My coworkers, made me realize that I shouldn’t care what other people think of me, I should just have fun in life. That’s what they did; they were extremely full of life. I am not shy at all, but I do like to keep to myself. If there was something that I would want to stand up for, I wouldn’t think twice about it.

My high school has many different courses that you can take, so that you’re able to look into different career fields to see what you want to grow up to be. My freshman year, I was determined that I was going to be a pediatric nurse. I did so much research and I had taken many classes that were on the guidelines of the nursing career. My junior year, I decided that I didn’t want to become a nurse anymore, but I still wanted to work with people. My senior year, I took a class called Teaching Children Practicum. I was able to volunteer in a kindergarten class room all year long. Come to find out I absolutely loved it. I loved being around the kids, I loved interacting with them and getting to know them. This is when I decided that I wanted to be a teacher, but not just any teacher. I particularly liked working with this age group, so I hope to become a kindergarten/first grade teacher.

first day

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this is my new blog!!