Blog #6 Oscar R. for 3/12/21

 Hey everyone. The readings for this week were very interesting this week and I feel like there was a lot to work with.  I will just be talking about some ideas and readings I found interesting and informative. 


1. I enjoyed the Sigona reading. It was interesting to see how people said that what they post depends on the platform/app. Each app has its own "tone" and "vibe". It was interesting to see how everyone had their own image and personality depending on the app and the audience they had on that app. I was able to make connections to writing. Just like social media, students and writers have a duality, different voices, and different approaches depending on the writing, the genre, the audience, and the assignment. It was interesting to see this. I had a writing activity in mind when reading this. It would be interesting to give the class a prompt and have them write and respond to prompt pretending like they are writing and positing this on a specific app. So they would respond to the prompt in the way/manner they would post it on twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc. It would help them learn about various tones, writing for a specific audience, and allow them to explore different voices. 


2. The Trainor reading was one that left completely shocked and mind blown. I have no experience teaching since I just turned 21 a few days ago so I had not seen this in a classroom before. I had never experienced this at school at all. It was shocking to see and read all of the racial attacks and racial comments the students had. It really got me thinking and stressing about how I would deal with this as a teacher. My goal was always to be a "good" teacher. By that I mean, be a teacher that is supportive, caring, loving, and one that believes in equity. I want to help those students that aren't normally helped and supported. I want to be there for them and foster them and allow them to feel safe. To think that what Trainor talked about could possibly happen in my classroom completely hurt me in a way and shocked me. It is something for some reason I never expected, saw coming, or thought I would have to deal with. This reading really made me sit and think and think about I would address this and how I would raise awareness and educate the class. It also made me think that there should be some form of classes or training that help teachers deal with this and learn how to tackle these issues. 

Overall, these two readings were the ones I found the most important and interesting. They have definitely helped me think about the future and what I would do as a teacher whether it be lesson planning, teaching how to write, and educating the class on racial issues and curating a classroom that fosters and promotes equity and protection for minority students. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lindemann Chapters 8-9

At the top of page 131, Lindemann explains how artists create forms and later writes how "we begin building a repetoire of forms for poems, dialogues, explanations, and arguments." The previous life as a musician taught me this. I learned to play guitar and bass by learning other people's songs and in doing so the songs I wrote sounded like the bands I liked (even though this similarity wasn't intentional). I learned how to play by mimicking the bands I liked, which is how I learned how to write. I found writers whose words sounded the way the words in my head sound and I mimicked their styles. I'd like to think my words (and songs) have deviated from this mimicry, but the influences remain. I found this practice helpful for anyone learning an art. If you're learning how to play guitar and you want to be in a punk band, there's no better teacher than Johnny Ramone. If you want to be an essayist circa 2021, David Sedaris is a good place to begin. This idea ...
Read more

Blog Post #3: Dominic Lopez

                      Some of the things I have been thinking about  and wondering  about this week are:   - Chapter 8 of the book provides a meaningful explanation for the purpose of teaching students how to properly form and format their writing. Teaching students how to use certain forms of writing can be a hinderance to their growth in writing because students then only stick to that form of writing. Their writing style and writing content often suffer since they try to fit their topic and their writing voice on the topic into a set format.    However, it is still important to teach students forms of writing because it gives them ideas for how to write coherently and how to structure their ideas well. Their ideas will become more connected and written better. We can show students a good  amount  of different forms of writing so that they  are able to  write well for any to...
Read more

Blog #12: Dominic Lopez

      These are the areas of the reading that I wanted to discuss for this week:   1.) I would really like to implement the method for teaching writing that is discussed in chapter five of the Warnock and Gasiewski text that has to do with peer reviews. In this method, students provide feedback to each other on the peer reviews and revisions that they do for their  peers when  reviewing each other’s writing. What I like about this method is that students will get feedback on the type of feedback that they are giving when they do peer reviews for others which allows them to see if the type of  feedback  they are giving is useful and effective rather than feedback that shows little effort. It helps them to understand when they aren’t being specific enough or reading their peer’s writing as thoroughly if their comments aren’t very detailed. It also allows them to help their peers improve their feedback as well which makes  all of  the stude...
Read more