I attended The Fund in Louisville, KY on February 23, 2016 held at The Henry Clay. The meeting had individuals from business and education in attendance. The goal of the meeting was to bring business representatives and teachers into the same room to discuss education. I do not believe that the goal was met. I found myself getting irritated about half way through the meeting and felt more like I was in attendance of “The Fund, why bother?” meeting.
Why do I feel that way? Let me recap the meeting, from memory I can tell you that there were exactly 15 minutes of introductory remarks. This was followed by a skit for exactly twenty minutes. A speech telling us what is wrong with education and what is right with education followed for exactly and hour, with a few questions. The questions were cut short when we reached break time. The break time took exactly ten minutes. Followed by a panel discussion which ended with time for three questions and broke at exactly 11:30 when we adjourned to the lunch
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This panel was interesting in that they presented their best practices. What was amazing to me is that the Ballard County representative stated that they (twenty one people) traveled to Texas to determine if there were improvements to be made to their district. I could not believe it. How would any group think that they needed to travel to another state to determine if they need to improve if they are in the top quartile for performance in Kentucky and they are not part of the top three school districts? I thought their actions were irresponsible. I think I was alone, because there was a lot of patting each other on the back going on. I thought the most interesting talk was by a woman from East Kentucky who was in a K-8 school with 87 children. She demonstrated innovative thinking that improved attendance. There was one diamond amongst the coal gathered at this
...aken ownership of. Many groups now choose to meet informally during their lunch periods. Per-session is also provided for the Inquiry teams to have additional time to meet. Her advice to me was to remember to always ask the teachers what they want to work on improving, if they are in an working environment where they feel they can express their creativity and concerns they will collaboratively be driven to refine their instruction.
Looking back over the course of the semester, I feel that I learned many new and interesting uses for technology within the classroom – both for classrooms that have a lot of technology and for classrooms that are limited with technology. For the majority of the class, we utilized William Kists’ book The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age (2010), which provided multiple modes of instruction that both utilized and/or created technology. One of the first things that I remember, and consequently that stuck with me through the course’s entirety, is that individuals must treat everything as a text. Even a garden is a text. The statement made me change the way that I traditionally viewed Language Arts both as a student and as a teacher, as I very narrowly saw literature and works of the like as texts only; however, by considering nearly anything as a text, one can analyze, study, and even expand his/her knowledge. Kist (2010) states that society is “experiencing a vast transformation of the way we “read” and “write,” and a broadening of the way we conceptualize “literacy” (p. 2). In order to begin to experience and learn with the modern classroom and technologically advanced students, individuals must begin to see new things as literature and analyze those things in a similar manner.
I would use the ideas that she presented in the talk during my teaching assistant (T.A.) sessions by doing something as simple as standing up straight especially during the periods where I’ll be teaching a lesson since standing up straight is a type of high-power pose. Since high-power poses will lead to an increase in testosterone and a decrease in cortisol, I will be able to feel more dominating and less stressed during those sessions. I honestly think that due to the decrease of stress that resulted from doing high-power poses, I will be able to feel more confident in teaching a lesson and thus allowing myself to teach a lesson effectively.
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