Teaching Against Literacy Walter Parker Analysis

In Deborah Brandt’s essay “Sponsors of Literacy,” Brandt describes the process of how people become literate, the effect of their experiences, and influential people on their learning. The term that Brandt uses frequently to describe those who have a profound influence on a child’s learning is “literacy sponsor.” She defines literacy sponsors as, “Agents, local or distant, concrete, or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way,” (Wardle 46). Essentially, Brandt is saying that every literate person has had the support of a person or idea that inspires their desire to read and write. The concept of sponsorship can be applied to fields outside of reading and writing too. There are sponsors of science, sponsors of art, and sponsors of medicine. Similarly, these sponsor help students learn to understand the principles of their individual fields. This paper focuses on the sponsorship of first-year and second-year University of Minnesota Medical School students from the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity. Data was collected through interviews with four students from this fraternity. The guiding question for this research paper was, “Can Brandt’s definition of literacy sponsor be applied to other fields of learning, such as the medical field.” If it is found that the definition for sponsorship can be applied to the medical field, then sponsorship can be applied to other

B.2.a. Within this video, the teacher took her students on a field trip to observe citizens and gauge how the rights showed individualism in America. It made them aware of stereotyping. This supports students learning about cultural diversity by showing how others were treated in history. In student reflection forms, students wrote about how color should not matter when interacting with others. People can be a good person even if they aren’t religious or believe the same way as themselves. The teacher taught the students that everyone is different and that we need to look for and identify the good qualities of others. This was an effective way to teach the students because they became more aware of the way they acted toward others.

After reading the article “Literacy Debate: Online, R U really reading?” by Motoko Rich, I believe that the internet is very beneficial in many ways but I also believe reading books is important at certain times. As being a teenager the internet has become a far better source when it comes to research. The internet is very quick on answers unlike books where you have to flip through pages for an answer to a simple question. Now why would someone choose to do more when they can do less with a simple click of a button? The internet is very useful; without the internet we wouldn’t have been able to have the opportunity to have this discussion here. On the contrary, the internet might be much faster with information but it is not always reliable.

Jazmin Gulliksen Gulliksen 1 Adam Floridia English 102 10 October 2014 Literacy terms in A&P In the story A&P written by John Updike, the use of literacy terms is key. During this tragic tale a boy’s lust for three girls who walk into the store he works at, wearing bathing suits, completely alters his sense of reality.

Democratic education also allows one to gain skills that can be use in everyday situation. Nussbaum notes, “This tradition argues that education is not just about the passive assimilation of facts and cultural traditions, but about challenging the mind to become active, competent, and thoughtfully critical in a complex world. This model of education supplanted an older one in which children sat still at desks all day and simply absorbed, and then regurgitated, the material that was brought their way.” (Nussbaum 18) Nussbaum criticizes the minimal use of just retaining useless information. Knowledge not utilize is equivalent to no knowledge at all. However, with democratic education one can utilize their knowledge to get out of a situation, for example, an American tourist visiting the Middle East and having the knowledge and culture awareness to greet a native Middle Eastern with the appropriate handshake.

As you may already know students study Civics in the 8th grade and I design my units so that Reading, Writing & Civics are interwoven. Under this umbrella, students will consider issues of race, class, culture, and gender, how they are tied to the construction and perception of identity, and how these factors impact life choices. Students will also discuss the expectations imposed by ones community, friends and family, and how, oftentimes, these can be the hardest ties to break. My hope is that students will learn that they are not without power; choices can be made and it is possible to resist negative

As soon as we start our educational journey, we are indoctrinated with the ideals and values American society hold in high regard. From the moment we walk into our classroom, on that first day we meet our fellow classmates, who will become apart of our daily lives. These classmates come from different backgrounds, and cultures. Each one a different set of ethics and some practice differ religions and customs. We are taught to work together as one, despite our varying differences. We become connected to each other throughout our learning process. Soon we learn that we were all connected to each other, even before we stepped into that classroom. We discover this by practicing a custom all americans in public school, no matter their cultural

Throughout my time writing at the City College of New York, I experienced a slow and dramatic transition to my first semester of this college course. During that time, I've learned from several feedback and lessons from certain peers and my professor. Because of the strict comments written in my drafts by my professor, a few helpful suggestions to include in my writing, and a few miserably failures, I was able to see how my writing and habits have changed during the duration of this course. Back in high school, I was always comfortable writing only five paragraph essays (Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion), but I've never expected to write something more complex. Here, I was encouraged to include as much detail as I can instead of writing something vague

In the fourth section of the education reading, Caroline Persell, focus on the different type of education systems around the world. The reading explains that there are three different reasons that education systems can differ. First, the children who access the school is different. For example, the different ages, genders and races of children who are enrolled in the school vary. Second, how the school receives its funding and the people and organizations that control the school.

The videos really show why parents like homeschooling more now because of schools being so crowded. Learning has changed a lot over the years. The thing that I find interesting about them saying classes are overcrowded is I work at a school and there are fewer students in the classrooms than when I was a student. Maybe that’s from all of the changes, or maybe that only applies to the school or town I work in.

Explain the Simple View of Reading and its applications for teaching in relation to your SE1 context, with particular reference to strategies for teaching and assessing reading.

High school is often considered a microcosm of society. Beliefs, social order, and current issues present themselves through student’s interactions and the environment they learn in. One of the oldest and still prevalent issues in the United States today is race and equality. So it is no surprise when racial issues are exposed in public education. Although many believe the civil rights era fixed most discrimination, racism remains in schools. Even after court ordered integration, classroom disparities have led to harmful segregation to continue within schools.

Common misconceptions within my literacy central focus may include students believing that when they retell a story, they are rereading the book to someone. This misconception will be addressed in my learning segment through discussion and interactive modeling. Through discussion, I will explain to the students that when they retell a story they are using their own words and not the authors words. This will be practiced when the students are retelling the story through role-playing. The Three Billy Goats Gruff does have many lines that the students will memorize, therefore the teacher will need to point out that students can include those lines when they are retelling the story because it provides extra detail to the person they are retelling

The present K-12 educational system strives to do more than educate the few aspiring to gain top government posts. The goal instead is to impart on the students a certain curriculum of knowledge and values deemed crucial to a person’s well being.

We examined the issues, problems, and solutions to equitable schooling in a pluralistic society. Viewing schools as social institutions that transform the cultural and political dynamics of society. Some of my favorite activities in that class had to do with the articles of Crystal City and Little Rock Nine. The Walkout in Crystal City article was about how in 1969, Mexican Americans were prohibited from speaking Spanish in school and there were no classes or lessons about Mexican history, culture or literature and how the he Crystal City students came together after the school board refused to hear the students' demands and the walkout remains a high point in the history of student activism in the Southwest. The Little Rock Nine article had to do with the decision that was made on May 17, 1954 due to BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of America’s public schools was unconstitutional. That is when nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Even though the students were not wanted their and discriminated against, they were still brave enough to encounter the mistreatment is order to show that they to deserved to have the education and equality that the caucasian students had. This really encouraged me to collaborate