Do's
1. Do have a small welcoming environment.
2. Do have a small classroom with a mix of both hands-on activities and lectures.
3. Do make it a norm to know all the teachers, even if they don't teach the students.
4. Do let all students know that everyone in the school has high expectations of them.
5. Do create an environment in which it's cool the be engaged in school activities.
6. Do tell students to self discipline so others don't have to.
Don't
1. Don't ignore school fights. Both the administration and students should reflect on why the fight happened and how it can be prevented in the future.
2.Students: Don't put down the students who aren't on your academic level.
3. Don't ignore student voice.
4. Don't praise "A" students and ignore the students with low grades.
5. Don't be closed minded to views different from yours.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Reflection July 21
Tuesday July 21 the education council did not have work today. But I still came into the office to work because I had a presentation later for the safety council. Me and Antwan went through the Recommendations from the first 9 days and put them into buckets, but before was finished we was ask to come in and join the safety council while the talked about the youth violence survey. We worked in groups of two and answered various questions about the survey so the Safety Council could get ready for there presentation to the media. Later that afternoon I had a presentation to the Safety Council with two of my friends form school about the Brotherhood and our sister group Sister 2 Sister. We had fun doing it and it was a great experience and atmosphere in that room. The students had lots of questions and looked to see how we were addressing problems within our school.
Reflection July 20
Reflection July 20, 2009. Today was a very productive day. Our group was able to create its on Graduation requirements for our school. Our group thought it was necessary for students to take 3 years of science but they would take environmental science and biology. But the 3rd year of science they would get to pick. Also we would keep the 4 years of English and extend math to 4 years. The hardest thing we did today was read the article Can the American High School Become an Avenue of Advancement for all? This article had a lot of information to offer our group.
Even though we didn’t have to read the whole article all at once each group read a different section and we reported back to the group. For my group I read the biggest part. I knew my team was counting on me to give them info. I really dissect the part of the essay I read. Our part of the essay talked about finding an accurate way to track students. In the United States 77% of students graduate from high school 1/3 of them go on to graduate college. Only 8 percent of high school students spend more than 10% preparing for classes. So from reading the article there is no way to accurately track students across the country. About 1/3 of all highs schools graduate all of its students. So when we look deeper 28 percent of high school graduates have to take one or more remedial classes
Even though we didn’t have to read the whole article all at once each group read a different section and we reported back to the group. For my group I read the biggest part. I knew my team was counting on me to give them info. I really dissect the part of the essay I read. Our part of the essay talked about finding an accurate way to track students. In the United States 77% of students graduate from high school 1/3 of them go on to graduate college. Only 8 percent of high school students spend more than 10% preparing for classes. So from reading the article there is no way to accurately track students across the country. About 1/3 of all highs schools graduate all of its students. So when we look deeper 28 percent of high school graduates have to take one or more remedial classes
Reflection July 16
On Thursday July 16 we went to North Lawndale to meet Umoja another youth organization. Honestly they had a big goal of trying to create a grocer store for their neighborhood. They believe the citizens of there communities should not have to travel to other neighborhoods to grocer shop. And I thought back from walking from the train station into North Lawndale I did not see any stores you could go and grocer shop at. They have students from different schools and they are really determined to reach there goal. I’m also very interested in keeping in touch with them and and doing some more networking.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
showtime's blogging purposes
"showtime's reflection"
yesterday our group got a lot done. we quickly learned that in order to get work done we need to work together and respect each each others opinions.
The refections that i write on the blog will not only talk about what i've learn, my reflections will talk about the progress of our group.
yesterday our group got a lot done. we quickly learned that in order to get work done we need to work together and respect each each others opinions.
The refections that i write on the blog will not only talk about what i've learn, my reflections will talk about the progress of our group.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Reflection July 15
Today was a very unique day. We did 2 different scenarios in small groups about the types of leaderships and different leaderships styles. From looking at this info I have a very unique leadership style. I incorporate a lot of these things and I have also taken apart in the many different types of leadership opportunities. I’m more of democratic I like having my whole team involved, but there will be times when you will assign roles and don’t care about feed back from the other teams members which is laissez faire. And also autocratic is when you have a group of people and you lead them and help them put there skills together to finish a given job. So I have been in all these situations at some point in my career, but I would rather have the whole group involved and get there input.
Also we looked at what type of leaderships have you been involved in. There was delegating which involves a leader and he has a follower who may have more leadership’s skills than him. This is hard for me I have a lot of energy and try to find a way to get myself to be involved. Also it’s not bad directing others. I have fun with it, and I’ve seen good results form it. The one situation of leadership I have seen the most is participating/ supporting and coaching. I try my best to interact with younger students so they can see the potential within them. Also some people want to do things and step up to be leaders but the need guidance and they need for someone to teach them the skills
But today was a great start for organizing our schools. We decided on what should be included in a teachers work description. We thought the teachers should offer support to the students in and outside of class, and have positive parent relationships. Also we discussed of having teachers work four class periods a day so they would be able to mentor students. Also I suggested to the group our school having seven periods and one double period. One of those seven periods is extended for science classes. Everyone in the school would take science at the same time. But were in the beginning stages but I feel my group has offered some great input for all parts of the school. One thing we need to work on is our communication. We listens to each others ideas but I need to listen harder because a lot of my group members talk really low and soft so I cut them off a lot but I think they could do a better job in speaking up and projecting there voices.
Also we looked at what type of leaderships have you been involved in. There was delegating which involves a leader and he has a follower who may have more leadership’s skills than him. This is hard for me I have a lot of energy and try to find a way to get myself to be involved. Also it’s not bad directing others. I have fun with it, and I’ve seen good results form it. The one situation of leadership I have seen the most is participating/ supporting and coaching. I try my best to interact with younger students so they can see the potential within them. Also some people want to do things and step up to be leaders but the need guidance and they need for someone to teach them the skills
But today was a great start for organizing our schools. We decided on what should be included in a teachers work description. We thought the teachers should offer support to the students in and outside of class, and have positive parent relationships. Also we discussed of having teachers work four class periods a day so they would be able to mentor students. Also I suggested to the group our school having seven periods and one double period. One of those seven periods is extended for science classes. Everyone in the school would take science at the same time. But were in the beginning stages but I feel my group has offered some great input for all parts of the school. One thing we need to work on is our communication. We listens to each others ideas but I need to listen harder because a lot of my group members talk really low and soft so I cut them off a lot but I think they could do a better job in speaking up and projecting there voices.
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