Geddes’ essay was effective overall and managed to get the point across. There is a transition throughout the essay, from the start of her childhood to growing up into adulthood. The reader is able to understand the respect that she has for her family and community in the beginning and then the harsh reality of the intolerance for diversity as she goes to school. In the end she does realize that she is good enough to go to post secondary despite what people may have said earlier. Believing in yourself and remembering where you come from builds character and you should not let anyone tell you otherwise.
Ms. Rodgers mentions that the class rules and reward program play a major part in trying to prevent behaviors. Her reward program provides points for students for achieving certain academic goals, behavioral goals and classroom goals as a community. She has set forth and feeling of community in her classroom, using the student’s desks as “houses” and with students sitting close to one another, her class is run like a neighborhood. She uses things like being nice to your neighbor and “doing things for the community” as positive behavior reinforcement. She shared with me an example that one of her classified students did in order to receive reward points.
I network women with each other, refer them to professor friends who can help them; connect them to graduate students and/or former students who are already pursuing careers” (pg 348). This shows how dedicated she is to her students and the ways that she is willing to make a difference for them. “Courage takes pure concentrations” (pg 349) Castellanos makes sure that her students know that she has been there too. Where they are now, scared and angry because many have told the, that they won’t amount to anything. Olivia Castellano in “Canto, Locura Y Poesia,” explains how growing up as a female and being a Mexican has been a challenge.
The novel, looking for Alibrandi, by Melina Marchetta strongly conveys the concept that one isn’t garneted to belong to another as result of them being the same. This is emphasised on page 18 where Josie describes the students in her school. In doing so visual imagery is used in phrases like ‘Blond yuppies’ in order for the reader to receive a clear image of the students. Josie also uses Figurative Language when stating that most ‘students in the school are in clone groups’. The meaning behind this is not to say that they are in a particular group but to refer to them as all being significantly similar.
Throughout the movie, we see the transformation of the barren environment of their classroom into one with bright posters, and a welcoming atmosphere. The transformation of the set ....links with the transformation of the students and their attitudes in which they have towards the idea of being able to belong at school and being comfortable with one another, something which Skrzynecki struggled to achieve. Through the constant change of this set, the audience is able to witness the change that is occurring in the students and their increased desire to socially belong. The continual use of pieces of writings from the students’ diaries, usually narrated by the students in a voiceover and combined with a visual impression of the event, positions the responder to understand and empathise with the world of the students. This encourages the audience to acknowledge their desire to have a rightful place in their community.
But, her foster parents supported her as much as they could, and encouraged her to become involved in school academics and sports to keep her active and busy. The turning point for the family came one day when Nai was sent to her middle school’s principal’s office for wearing a sleeveless shirt. The principal called Nai’s foster mom to come to the school for a meeting. Nai recalls, “When my foster mom arrived at the principal’s office, she said, ‘My daughter hasn’t done anything wrong.’ She backed me up and supported me.” It was then that Nai realized that her foster mom would, “always be there for me and support
The technical convention of close-up shots is used to show the importance of education through the facial expressions which show desperation, anger and joy of the families of children applying for charter schools. During the final scenes of the documentary, we learn that some children were accepted and some were not. This makes the reader sympathize with the children who were not accepted. The symbolic convention of body language is used to show the importance of education through Ruby’s actions in the isolated classroom. On the seventh page of the book, Ruby is focused on doing her work in an isolated classroom; Ruby seemed to ignore the fact that she was isolated and fully immersed herself in her textbooks.
She uses the constructivist approach to learning by using prior knowledge to enhance learning and scaffolding techniques. Mrs. Mills builds self-esteem and self-concept in her students by helping them gain confidence. She is never down grading, and when she has to get on to a student she makes sure to go back and say, “Now that is what I was looking for.” Every time Mrs. Mills demonstrated a concept for her students she used modeling. Teacher modeling is especially effective with these
They throw all their morals out the window, people trust the ones who are in charge because we were brainwash to believe that leaders can be trusted and they have our best interest in head. When you are a child and you are in grade school, you tend to gravitate to someone with a take charge attitude, even if those people’s motives are evil. In the short story Brownies, there is a character named Snot, she was her own individual but somehow still followed along with the ways of Arnetta, when the girls were going to have a secret meeting to discuss what they were going to do about the white girls, Snot was pressured into going along with the group, Arnetta said “Snot, you’re not going to be a bitch and tell Mrs. Margolin, are you?” Snot tries to speak against it by saying, “Hey, maybe you didn’t hear them right –I mean-“ but then Arnetta, the authority figure interrupted saying “Are you gonna tell on us or not?” Snot eventually caved in and went with the majority group. (Packer 507) Also with the Milgram’s experiment the subjects tried to speak up against the authority but failed when the authority figure told them to shack the person again. “In each case, the actors sitting on the chair kept protesting, screaming, exhibiting excruciating pain.
In the movie, Mrs Gruwell showed great compassion and determination because the student had no interest in school or her but she still tried different methods and techniques to convince them that each of them is important that unity is power. The forming stage started when the teacher ask the group to change sits position, the second