Lisa Owens’ Personality (Trinity) Assessments Summary Is the information accurate? Why or Why not? According to Lisa, the information from the MBTI, DISC personality profile and Holland code was quite accurate.
This shows her patience and tolerance when faced with the unpredictability of her
Lisa Delpit in Chapter 4 was questioning, What Should Teachers Do? Delpit was arguing as an educator that you shouldn’t force a child to speak English that’s from another country or culture. Constantly forcing the child will cause a gap in a relationship with the student; destroying confidence of learning and questioning or possibly even disrespecting. Instead of being too critical, Delpit states that you should learn the child’s culture/country to form a positive bond between the student and teacher. Some ideas that were given was creating a bilingual dictionary for both the teacher & student, having the students teacher each other language/culture, reading entertainment such as comic books, recording the students speak English to perfect
Beth Howard’s article from the U.S. News and World Report talks greatly about how mental health and anxiety is becoming a big issue on university campuses. For many decades, U.S. News and World Report has been a well known news source because of it’s impressive ranking and annual reports of colleges and graduate schools. Howard outlines what certain prestigious colleges around the nation are doing to combat the issue; such as Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia, as well as many state universities. She reiterates ideas like meditation, counseling and even playing with dogs that are helping students cope with stress and anxiety. Howard also brings up many important factors that play a role in students’ anxiety levels and incorporates them together
The word elite in Davidson's article applies to institutions that are able to be outstanding in accordance to the standard educational curriculum. In her article “Project Classroom makeover”, Cathy Davidson shares her view of the current educational system by exploring how they can be outdated and not inclusive to everyone. Despite praising institutions that broke the cycle of following the curriculum standard like Mrs Davidson’s classroom and her own university Duke Davidson she however, does not classify all those institutions as “elite”. Davidson’s own view of elite institutions is narrowed down to that of the “rich, privileged institution” (54) and not much with the learning style and the inclusiveness of different talents that she praises
One paragraph she is saying that children with disabilities should be looked at as individuals first and then as a person with a disability. Paragraphs later she is saying, “If there is one thing that all children with or without disabilities-have in common, it is that kids don't always do what parents want. ”I do agree that children don’t always do what parents want them to. However, I think children with disabilities and those who don’t have a lot more in common than that. She keeps making a separation between the children, that does not need to be there.
Stephanie Cox is not a stranger to pulling readers into her point of view and actually trying to have them sympathize for the subject at hand. The article is about the importance of minorities, particularly Hispanics, adopting some American customs, beginning with speaking English. Starting the article off by putting a child’s life in the mix gets the attention of everyone. Let 's say you were a Hispanic parent who moved to America for whatever reason but refused to take classes to learn the English language because you “were born Mexican, is Mexican today, and will forever be a Mexican.” Now, your child goes missing.
Summary According to Deborah Tannen, agonism refers to ritualized opposition, a situation when a party in a debate wins rather than an argument that comes up when two parties disagree. She claims that the academic world is very agonistic. We tend to think that intellectual inquiry is a metamorphic battle and to show our skills is to criticize, find fault and attack and foster this in students. Students are often taught to criticize and find the weakest point from one’s work to support their view while ignoring the strength and other important facts of the paper that would support other’s viewpoint.
From Brian’s past experience, he did not enjoy being fully integrated into a general education class for he was confused with his classwork, resulting in being academically behind, as well as felt he was ‘different’ apart from his peers. Brian was not only hard on himself, but students would constantly tease him about his learning disability. Due to these factors, it has impacted Brian to feel otherwise about rejoining his general education classes and to instead stay put in special intervention with Mr. Wright; by being in this setting, Brian feels safe, unjudged, and important to others. As a result of his past, it makes the upcoming debate about re-inclusion difficult for Mr. Wright and Brian's parents to decide on. However, Brian’s mother
Janet Smylie presents the current challenges facing indigenous Canadians in Westernised educational models. The author outlines the impact of colonisation on indigenous sociocultural belief systems highlighting this as a mitigating factor in the low levels of indigenous youth literacy. Smylie summarises the need to incorporate conceptualisation of Aboriginal culture, learning styles and perceptions when drafting framework for literacy outcomes. Additionally, the author highlights the need for self-determination by utilising the knowledge within communities to officially establish intrinsic connection between health and literacy outcomes in indigenous communities. In particular, embracing indigenous values such as metaphysical beliefs and traditional
Although Katherine Dettwyler was an American, she was very understanding and wanted to do all she could to focus on the health issues facing the Bambara. Through cultural relativism, Dettwyler was able to understand Malian culture and answer her research questions. This made me proud realizing that many anthropologists see things from another cultures point of view instead of looking down on them and making them feel that their traditional ways are wrong. Dettwyler inspired me to also give biomedicine a chance in my life. Dettwyler stresses that poor infant feeding and weaning practices in Mali leads to chronic childhood malnutrition.
The Life of Brenda Myers-Powell Brenda Myers-Powell is the founder of the Dreamcatcher Foundation which fights sex trafficking. She grew up on the West Side of Chicago in the 1960s. Her mother was 16 when she had Brenda and died when Brenda was only six months old, leaving her under the care of her grandmother. Unfortunately, her grandmother had a drinking problem and she would have different male company coming over to drink with her. As early as four years old, her grandmother`s male company would sexually abuse her while her grandmother was passed out in the house.
After examining Dr. Carol S. Dweck’s article, “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids,” we can see that she makes a compelling argument for her Scientific American audience through the use of key rhetorical strategies. The first technique she employs involves strong organizational structure. To start her piece Dweck begins with an anecdotal story of a student picturing the changes of his mind-set throughout his school years. In Describing jonathan story, she explains, “A brilliant student, Jonathan sailed through grade school [...] In the seventh grade, Jonathan suddenly lost interest in school, refusing to do homework or study for tests.
Intellectual disability is a disability that has a number of limitations both in intellectual function which may include reasoning, learning, problem solving, and in adaptive behavior. Adaptive behavior covers a range of everyday social and practical skills. Melody was wrongly diagnosed with an Intellectual disability by a doctor to see how smart she was to be put into school. According to the text the doctor said,” Mrs. Brooks…it is my opinion that melody is severely brain-damaged and profoundly retarded.”
1. When using IQ tests, the evaluator needs to make sure they cover the areas of concern, which would be the reasons the student was referred for evaluation. 2. Researchers should not rely totally on IQ tests, but they should use other assessment tools to provide a complete overview of the student. 3.
