Authors Support

Gilyard: ...."was equally concerned with the best end to have in view."

hooks:  "Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only."

Boyce: ...."but to promote positive qualities like empathy, citizenship, and strong friendships."

Hayes:    reward of gaming include "of being successful, connecting with others, and feeling curiosity, awe, and wonder."

Gilyard:  Humanities "are vital to the process of  the shaping critical and productive citizens that we need."

hooks:  "Critical thinking requires all participants in the classroom process to be engaged. "

brainstorming ideas

How teachers are treated
Teaching children to be optimistic, socially intelligent
Empathetic students, collaboration
critical thinkers, problem-solvers,  leaders, innovators
approach to teaching
academic standards for teachers
standardized tests should not be valued as the 'gold-standard' for achievement
stress of testing
building character
gratitude
engaging students

Rank

It was hard to rank them since they all had valid suggestions.

#1 Large-Qualities for successful individual-grit, curiosity, optimism-tough but positive-it not about failure, but how you handle it.
#2-Boyce-Mindfulness, empathy and good citizenship-make for a better world.
#3-Aronson- he advocated for voicing our opinions to effect real change that is measurable
#4-Gilyard- creative arts are very important, but STEM is being made the focus of the future.

Black and Rose

Both Rose and Black acknowledge that there is a problem with our education system.  Rose   advocated for young people to get an engaging and challenging education and to "stop making the standardized test scores the gold-standard of student achievement and teacher effectiveness".  Black advocated putting money into education and not get weighed down by titles.  Just make It "Folks education"

Omar.

Ideas for Change

Each of the authors support the ideas for change slightly with a different focus, but the end view looking over the horizon-is the same.  It is to educate children to be successful adults in society.  Jerry Large supports change by emphasizing the qualities that make for successful people.  They are grit, gratitude, optimism, curiosity, and social intelligence.  It is not about how high you score on tests.  Barry Boyce supports change in being mindful, having empathy and good citizenship.  Keith Gilyard saw change through creative arts and humanities.  bell hooks sees changes to education through critical thinking rather than conformity and obedience.  Interestingly, Sandy Hayes sees changed in education with Games.  Games can teach children about collaboration, problem solving, and accomplishing tasks through innovation, exploration and offers hope rather than failure.

Chalk advocating against education

Freire and Gatto both see the negatives from the current American education and curriculum.  Chalk reinforces this by portraying Mr. Stroope as a teacher not striving to better his students, but as a teacher driven by recognition (award).  Often Mr. Stroope is not as intelligent as his students.  Teachers should be qualified to teach.  When you have teachers who are not qualified to teach, the level of education will be lower.  Also, Mr. Lowrey is not motivated to enjoy what he does, teach.  They do not look to empower or lift their students to a place where they think outside the box, rather it is just the mundane routine they go through everyday, just to get through the year.  They don't encourage their students to be thinkers and leaders, just to follow the set curriculum and follow the rules.

Omar 

Chalk real time notes

The movie was released in 2006.  It is a mockumentary about teaching.  The main characters in the movie are Mr. Stroope, Mr. Lowrey and Coach Webb.  It is a movie from the perspective of the teachers.  It mentions that 50% of teachers quit during the first few years of teaching.  Mr. Stroope is noted as being sometimes less intelligent than his students although he wants to be Teacher of Year.  Mr. Lowrey is a history teacher who can't seem to find the joy or drive in teaching history.  Coach Webb is a woman gym teacher who tries to get her students to take her and her class seriously, as a class just like history or English.  It is a light movie with a serious subject underneath.  Teachers have an important role in children's education.  They need to enjoy what they do, be educated enough to teach, and have respect from the students in order to learn.

Omar 

WS pp. 32-37

These sections pertain to my current paper assignment by providing an example of a compare and contrast example essay, a classification essay, and a cause and effect essay example with an argument sample. The sample essays were helpful in giving me an idea of the structure of the compare and contrast essay and how to go about preparing my essay with identifying similarities and differences in Education by the different authors.  It helps with the argument and persuasion.

Omar

What is High School for?

I think the purpose of High School is to prepare students for college.  The foundations in English, Math, Science, History, Art and Tech Classes are set to give you a basic understanding of the major subjects and perhaps give you an insight into each so that maybe one subject will peak your interest for the future direction in studies that you might be interested in.  Peer pressure, competition, more homework, harder case loads, learning to drive/driving, jobs, relationships are all factors that students will/might experience and have to juggle while learning in an education program (experienced in both high school and college to different degrees).

Freire/Gatto

Freire and Gatto both agreed that the current state of education programs were lacking in providing  an education for children. They both question the purpose of education programs. What they were currently providing was 'schooling' to either fill empty vessels or  "designed to produce mediocre intellects" (Gatto).  Gatto compares secondary schools to "prisons" and "drill centers" that serves the purpose "to dumb people down". Freire also sees the schools as places where teachers just drill facts into the minds of the students or has he calls it "banking education" (Freire).  Freire's solution is problem-posing education that generates creative power.  I think that Gatto sees the problem as coming from beyond teachers to a government generated cause, while Freire sees the problem as coming more from the structure of the education system, teachers and curriculum. Changing the teaching style, teaching method and curriculum can be a solution for both views in which the current education  programs lack in their ability to encourage creative thought, individualism, and leaders. 

Using Sources Effectively

• According to Harrison Lowrey, Teacher at Berkeley HS for Social Studies, "We [the teachers] learn as much from our students as our students learn from us"(123).
• In an interview with Sean Connery on Goldfinger, he indicates that he was and will always be Hollywood's best James Bond.
• In the book The Amazing Spider-man, HS student Peter Parker writes,"With great power, also comes great responsibility"(115).

Micheal Bay is a movie director for the Warner Bros. Movie Institute, where he has been directing blockbuster movies for several different companies. In one of his movies Transformers, where one of the characters were gazing out to the sunset, he says, "Their is more to them, than meets the eye". In another movie, Terminator, in which one of the character's defeats an enemy, he shouts,"You've just been terminated!"    

Omar