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Monday, September 10, 2012
Blog Post #2: You and education
Thinking about what you know about education from our readings, compare your own educational experiences so far. What portrayl best represents your own education and why? Include photos of your past schools if possible to illustrate what kind of schools they were. Did class matter in the school you went to? What were you taught? How did it affect your career choices later in life? Please write about your own experience in the context of what we have been learning so far this semester.
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As a student in Catholic elementary school , I remember my educational experience in what can best be described as a series of unfortunate events. I can remember being separated into groups in our reading class according to ability. This took place on the carpet area of the classroom itself. We were told to go and grab the books off of the shelf according to assignment. There was the 'hartcort' group who had nice, hard cover books waiting for us in a neat pile on the shelf(that was my group) and the super smart kids had their readers in their desks. Then the kids who needed a little extra help had these green,generic -looking workbooks in a box on the floor. The pages were falling out of some of them and the kids who wrote inside were regularly chastised for doing so. Every one of us knew which children were considered 'good' readers versus 'bad' readers. Instead of being encouraged to help each other, it served as a way to segregate each other into hurful and condescending groups- the dumb kids versus the smart kids. It was distracting and even the teachers are guilty of treating students differently based on this obvious placement. The banking concept is the most accurate account of the teaching methods I was exposed to through my primary education. It wasn't until I entered college for the first time that I was introduced to the classroom discussion learning atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteKarla,
ReplyDeleteWow! That seems awful! I am picturing the groups of kids with their different books, and the poor readers are so sad. This is a great example of tracking and possibly class differences in education. Were the poor readers the economically poor students?
Also, could you post this on your own blog?