Hey everybody!
I just read the article, Why Does Family Wealth Affect Learning? There were a few terms I thought we all should know.
Human capitol-the skills or knowledge of individuals, usually bases on their education and experience.
Socioeconomic(social and economic put together)- this includes measures of family income, parental education, and parental occupation.
ample-generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity.
This article is basically about what the title says, does money affect learning? This article explains ways how money can effect learning. Obviously, students who have more money have the resources to provide for more opportunities in education. While students who do not have a lot of money, do not have as many opportunities. However, this article shows from the very beginning how the poorer students are already in a bad situation compared to the richer students. The low income families do not have enough money to have access to health care. This can lead to the baby being born with low birth weight and cognitive impairment. Then, if the poor mom drinks or takes drugs while pregnant, the child is at risk for fetal syndromes. Once born, the child faces lasting impacts. These lasting impacts include poorer health and cognitive impairment. These two impacts can effect the rest of the kid's life. Then as the child grows, the child can be exposed to poor environment, horrible daycare, and then going to a poor school. Furthermore, if the child goes to a poor school, it is more likely the child will have less experienced teachers. While growing up in this environment, the child also has to deal with their families financial consequences. The family could be piled up in a small house, not have any water, or have electricity. If the child does not have electricty, how can he see to do his homework? Then it would be distracting having alot of people piled up in one house. Overall, a child being born into a poor family has a lasting impact on his life and learning.
Even though all this is true for a poor child, what would happen if the poor child got a lot of money one day? Would it help the child academically? The answer is no because the richer child also has human and social capitol. Human capitol is where the child learns from experiences. Social capitol is where the child has connections to people with money. By the rich child having these capitols, they have a lot more opportunities. The poor child would need these capitols to fully affect his academic success.
So the question you must be thinking is if I am a teacher, how do I handle a poor child that comes from this kind of background? Well first, you need to remember that every child is different. Therefore, each child is going to come from a different background, even all the poor kids. You, as a teacher, can show support to the child who does need help and comes from this type of background. Give the child support in the classroom by helping them understand the lesson. You could also help them after school. You could allow students stay after school and help them do their homework, since they may not be able to do it at home. It is also important to try to get the parents involved. By getting the parents involved, the child will have more support at home. Overall, you should support, be caring, and know you can make some kind of a difference in the child's life.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Get To Know the Future Mrs. Reed
Hey my fellow blogger!
My name is Brittany Reed. I will be a senior at Mississippi State University in the fall of 2012. I was born in Meridian, MS on September 25. My dad was in the Navy at the time, so we moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia when I was born. We moved five more times after that to different states in the United States. We finally settled back down in Mississippi near Meridian in1998.
Some fun little facts about me include: I am a huge soccer fan! I love chocolate. Penguins are my favorite animal. I love to travel but I hate flying. I have been out of the country once. I traveled to London and South Africa in the same trip. This trip was actually during the World Cup 2010. Needless to say, to be in South Africa while the World Cup was going on, was the best thing I have experienced in my life!!
The first thing that motivated me to become a teacher was the best person I know, my mom. I loved acting like a teacher in her classroom after school when I was little. I made all my friends, who their moms were teachers as well, pretend to be my students. When I pretended to be the teacher, I always acted like how my mom was as a teacher. My mom is a great teacher and role model. I hope one day I am at least half the woman and amazing teacher she is. The second thing that motivated me to become a teacher was being active in my youth group and working with the children's ministries. By working with the children's ministries for six years in the youth group and continuing to do it to this day, has definitely gave me the motivation to become a teacher. I love spending time with children and seeing that look on their face when they learn something new, it is priceless!
My goals for this course include making good grades, learning as much as possible about middle school, and observing teachers in middle school grades to show me how to and not to act in the classroom.
I hope to learn how to teach middle school from this class. My mom has taught elementary my whole life and I have observed many elementary classrooms, so I have seen many different strategies for teaching in the elementary. I have never observed teachers in middle school. I do not know how to motivate this age group or how to teach in a way that is interesting to them. I want to learn as much as possible to do these things and be a successful teacher for middle school grades.
From my middle school experiences, when I was in middle school, some teachers did beneficial things and others did not. Three beneficial things these teachers did were took us on a field trip to Vicksburg to show us the battle fields from the Civil War lesson we studied, helped us any way they could with our studies, and helped us with personal struggles. Many of the female teachers I had were very good teachers in middle school. My social studies teacher took us to Vicksburg because we studied the Civil War for most of the year. The other teachers made sure that we understood what was being taught. I went through a lot of personal struggles in middle school. I was involved in many "cat fights" and did not know how to handle it because I am the type of girl who is a peacemaker. Many of these nice teachers, helped me get through these struggles and gave me advice.
Some teachers did beneficial things and other teachers did things that were detrimental. Three detrimental things they did were making the students teach a part of the lesson, not teaching to our interests, and taking up class time for sports time. Many of my teachers were coaches. These coaches style of teaching was to make us read and answer questions in the back of the book. Then to switch up a little bit, they would assign the different topics to the students and makes us teach. These coaches never taught and that is why I do not remember what I was taught for most of my middle school years. They also took up class time to take us to the field, so they could do the work on the field they wanted to do.
I believe I have many good qualities to offer to the classroom community. I am a hard worker, like having good discussions, I give many ideas, and I am a peacemaker. All these qualities help me be a great participant in a group project or in the classroom.
My name is Brittany Reed. I will be a senior at Mississippi State University in the fall of 2012. I was born in Meridian, MS on September 25. My dad was in the Navy at the time, so we moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia when I was born. We moved five more times after that to different states in the United States. We finally settled back down in Mississippi near Meridian in1998.
Some fun little facts about me include: I am a huge soccer fan! I love chocolate. Penguins are my favorite animal. I love to travel but I hate flying. I have been out of the country once. I traveled to London and South Africa in the same trip. This trip was actually during the World Cup 2010. Needless to say, to be in South Africa while the World Cup was going on, was the best thing I have experienced in my life!!
The first thing that motivated me to become a teacher was the best person I know, my mom. I loved acting like a teacher in her classroom after school when I was little. I made all my friends, who their moms were teachers as well, pretend to be my students. When I pretended to be the teacher, I always acted like how my mom was as a teacher. My mom is a great teacher and role model. I hope one day I am at least half the woman and amazing teacher she is. The second thing that motivated me to become a teacher was being active in my youth group and working with the children's ministries. By working with the children's ministries for six years in the youth group and continuing to do it to this day, has definitely gave me the motivation to become a teacher. I love spending time with children and seeing that look on their face when they learn something new, it is priceless!
My goals for this course include making good grades, learning as much as possible about middle school, and observing teachers in middle school grades to show me how to and not to act in the classroom.
I hope to learn how to teach middle school from this class. My mom has taught elementary my whole life and I have observed many elementary classrooms, so I have seen many different strategies for teaching in the elementary. I have never observed teachers in middle school. I do not know how to motivate this age group or how to teach in a way that is interesting to them. I want to learn as much as possible to do these things and be a successful teacher for middle school grades.
From my middle school experiences, when I was in middle school, some teachers did beneficial things and others did not. Three beneficial things these teachers did were took us on a field trip to Vicksburg to show us the battle fields from the Civil War lesson we studied, helped us any way they could with our studies, and helped us with personal struggles. Many of the female teachers I had were very good teachers in middle school. My social studies teacher took us to Vicksburg because we studied the Civil War for most of the year. The other teachers made sure that we understood what was being taught. I went through a lot of personal struggles in middle school. I was involved in many "cat fights" and did not know how to handle it because I am the type of girl who is a peacemaker. Many of these nice teachers, helped me get through these struggles and gave me advice.
Some teachers did beneficial things and other teachers did things that were detrimental. Three detrimental things they did were making the students teach a part of the lesson, not teaching to our interests, and taking up class time for sports time. Many of my teachers were coaches. These coaches style of teaching was to make us read and answer questions in the back of the book. Then to switch up a little bit, they would assign the different topics to the students and makes us teach. These coaches never taught and that is why I do not remember what I was taught for most of my middle school years. They also took up class time to take us to the field, so they could do the work on the field they wanted to do.
I believe I have many good qualities to offer to the classroom community. I am a hard worker, like having good discussions, I give many ideas, and I am a peacemaker. All these qualities help me be a great participant in a group project or in the classroom.
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