Kliewer

Peter Siner

Kliewer

“It’s not like they come her to be labeled…”

This quote goes on to say that it is important that we work in groups, also that students don’t come to schools to be set up to fail. In the school systems it seems as though people   don’t have the right to determine a child’s life. If a child comes into the school system and in first grade is categorized as special ed, the education received is most likely not going to be up to the same standard as the other children in the normal classroom environment. How does one ever emerge from this cycle of moving from special ed to special ed classroom each year? The children go to school to learn in order to survive in the outside world and be successful however this goal in nearly impossible due to the restrictions placed on the children in some situations. They don’t go to the schools to be labeled and considered hopeless and to do this is simply unfair.

“The presence of a thoughtful mind has been linked to patterns of behavioral and communication conformity”

I feel as though society has put a title of what is right and what is wrong without allowing for much room in between. Conformity in the school system seems to be encouraged without allowing students to feel as though they can do something that isn’t like the others. Why is it that being open minded and straying from the norm is considered success, in higher education such as college classrooms, the idea of analyzing and producing individual ideas is what is encouraged and I think this mind set should be present throughout a child life to influence a more diverse future.

“Curriculum emerged from her students daily lives in which they together gave meaning to classroom experiences”

This teacher moved away from the idea that a curriculum should be simply based on an age group or a school agenda. This idea of allowing the curriculum to be subject to the students involved makes the most sense, it’s almost strange that this isn’t the norm, if you think about it why wouldn’t the way you teach be based upon the children you’re teaching. Being able to somewhat determine the way our FNED course flows and the content we provide in class through discussions is what draws my attention to the class. While I generally play devil’s advocate, the ability to hear all sides of the discussion and not just professors makes for a very good classroom environment. It also allows for personal progression in the classroom environment rather than listening to a lecture and worrying more about memorization that the actual material. This idea of allowing students to be the leaders of their future makes the most sense.