CD-074 Reflections

1. What information surprised you or was new to you in this chapter? Hows does this information connect to info in the main course text? In chapter 9 of the Pica book, it mentions that some 5 and 6 year year olds got suspended for playing cops and robbers at recess.  That surprised me because kids are just using their imaginations at this age and rarely think of it as being aggressive. It connects with the course text because it talks about anti-bias in the classroom.  It's important to be anti-bias in a classroom and when you watch children play.  If you jump to conclusions because you think children are playing in a bad and unsafe way, but really they are just using their imagination, then that makes you look not good. 2 . What information do you agree with and why? What info do you disagree with and why? I agree that children should be free to use their  imagination.  I disagree that the children should have been suspended for just pretending. ...

 REFLECTION BLOG #10-Chapters 12 & 17 1. What information surprised you or was new to you in this chapter? Hows does this information connect to info in the main course text? The information that  surprised me was in Chapter 17, the author reflects a little bit about how many things have changed since 125 years ago.  We don't really think about what has changed until we reflect.  It's mind boggling to think how different things will be in the next 125 years.  The kids we are raising right now will have even more advances than we do right now.  From the main text, I could see how it relates to the readings in the Pica book because it talks about developing the teacher's identity.  In the Pica book, it touches on in Chapter 12 how some teachers give their children more movement time even though it can be looked down upon from the administration. 2. What information do you agree with and why? What info do you di...

Chapter 20: 1. What information surprised you or was new to you in this chapter? Hows does this information connect to info in the main course text? All of the information in this chapter is information that I have already heard about before.  Honestly, I didn't see any connection from the text to the chapter in the Pica book. 2. What information do you agree with and why? What info do you disagree with and why? I agree with the  information that we should let the students not win sometimes.  It really is true that kids will think they fail if they don't come in 1st place.  I also agree that people with a growth mindset value their hard work.  There wasn't any information that I disagreed with.  3. Describe an experience you have had that relates to the information in this reading. When my oldest son lost his championship flag football game last year, he was so upset and felt like a failure and a loser.  I had to...

1. What information surprised you or was new to you in this chapter? Hows does this information connect to info in the main course text? Some information that surprised me was when the book was talking about timeouts and saying that they are mentally and emotionally damaging.  This wasn't really surprising to me but more of a lightbulb moment because it's absolutely right.  It hurts the child's feelings because they are trying to communicate some sort of frustration and punishing them because they aren't doing what you want to do is not the answer.  The only part I could really see is providing developmentally appropriate education because the "calm down time" or "time in", whatever you want to call it, has to fit the age you are working with as well as the curriculum.  You can't treat bigger kids like toddlers and vice versa. 2. What information do you agree with and why? What info do you disagree with and why? I agree with the inf...

1. What information surprised you or was new to you in this chapter? Hows does this information connect to info in the main course text? Some information that surprised me about this chapter was how firm it came off to not say "good job" too much to my students.  I've heard it before but the approach it had was a little more strict that I was expecting.  I can see this book and the text connecting and working together because you have to understand your students' culture and how they would like to be complimented and what you should say too.   2. What information do you agree with and why? What info do you disagree with and why? I did agree mostly with the content because saying "good job" can definitely lose its meaning if you say it too much because the child might not even comprehend why you are praising them and what for.  There wasn't any information that I disagreed with in the reading, however, just like I mentioned before, it just came off a litt...

Chapters 18 & 20 1. What information surprised you or was new to you in this chapter? Hows does this information connect to info in the main course text? In Chapter 20, it talks about how teaching the children that the process rather than the grade or result are most important.  That surprised me because it's an unspoken rule of thumb, or at least for me it was, that the grade is the reflection of what you learned which is more important than anything else.  If you get a bad grade, that means you didn't learn anything.  It relates to the chapter 12 in the text because in the book by Pica, it talks about who should be leading the learning.  If the teachers are leading the learning then, chances are, it's more grades focused, but if the class was more student led then, it wouldn't be so focused on grades and more what the student learned. 2. What information do you agree with and why? What info do you disagree with and why? I agre...