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tekla-courseaccount · 7 years
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dolivarez01-blog · 8 years
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While working on my position paper I got to read about interesting teaching methods for a classroom. Especially during the peer review, the papers I read covered great material, such as whether teachers need to continue and improve their writing and activities to make the classroom a fun place to learn. Flipped classrooms takes a unique approach at learning, granting students freedom to learn at the comfort of their homes. Would you guys prefer watching a video of a lecture rather than hearing one in class? We basically do it already in class, but with reading.
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erixflores-blog · 8 years
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Composition and Pedagogy
As I was writing my extensive research of how to improve literacy in educational institutions I came across with the idea of how complicated and complex is to teach the course of English and composition due to the fact that it is a very complex material that is subject to change over the course of the years, and I find it intriguing that we as prospective English educators should ferry with that idea that we have to accommodate with every form because of the constant technological, societal, cultural, industrial development.  As the general population develops so does the language because there will be language development that we as English majors and future teachers should keep up to in order to be effective educators. 
Throughout the course of the semester I have gained a vast knowledge of how different teaching methods were conducted decades ago and how classes are administered in contemporaneous classrooms which are very different but still there is room for improvement since society is in this phase of rapid changes, such as gay marriage, immigration, women’s rights, war and the list goes on.  There are many political matters at hand in this era, therefore, there is going to be countless forms of reading and composition that we as educators should heed of.
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Until recently I was not truly considerate of how important validation is to students. Without validation a student cannot achieve or grow intellectually. Let me explain, if a student does not receive validation of their work, they will not be inclined to try to improve in it or maybe even learn it at all. When I was a tutor, I had, many times, students ask me "How is this composition writing going to be beneficial to me? When will I ever even use it?" The lack of validation makes students either put in the minimum amount of work or decide that the results are not worth the effort. In order to give students some level of validation, you might assign work that feels relevant tho them. For example, ask them to compare their own experiences to the theories or experiences being discussed in class. This, at least, gives the student the feeling that they are personally involved in their work and therefore validated by it. Another method might be allowing the student to choose the topic. Everybody always invests more effort in something that interests them. Allowing students to choose their own topic for writing can help them feel validated in thet they are contributing to something that they enjoy. Finally, you can simply provide positive feedback to students on where they are improving and what they do right. I practiced this kind of method back when I tutored for English composition. Knowing that they were actually improving made them feel validated for the work they did and really affected how they took criticism for their errors. In the end, validation is truly essential to student development. What do you guys think? Can you think of other ways that teachers can help students feel validated? I look forward to hearing your responses.
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bianca24s-blog · 8 years
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When students are in elementary they are babied and guided through out their work. They are given specific steps and strategies to help them accomplish there work. They are taught to be independent and that that is what is going to happen once they reach high school. When I was in high school we were still babied and told what to do and how to do it. We can’t make it extremely easy for the students because they won’t learn if they aren’t challenged. If students aren’t asking questions, teachers are not impacting there learning. Having students write out vocabulary is pointless, having the students incorporate the new words in a sentence is more effective than writing out boring definitions. Even now that I’m in college teachers are still there to help me out, but they will not deal with any late work. I feel that lazy teachers are what scare students away from essays since they weren’t given group or as many essay assignments in high school. They are not introduced to them so they are clueless and aren’t prepared for college. I’ve learned more in college than in high school when writing an effective essay. As long as teachers are motivated to educate the students, provide multiple strategies, and introduce group work will have a positive impact for the students future. 
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Art interpretation has alway fascinated me, so when we covered the concept in class I was in agreement with John Berger to the point because art interpretation can be a very complex phenomenon. Many factors can play during one’s interpretation of art including: ones mood, the person we are with, the drink we are holding, a gum we might be chewing, the weather, more females than males in the room and vice versa. When interpreting art, the amount of interpretations are limitless, and it is the same scenario with with composition, and writing creatively; the interpretation that we might get from our reader’s might vary drastically from individual to individual and might also be similar. It is this idea that interpretation can lead to self identification which is needed to be shared with our future students so that way they can incorporate this idea into their creative writing and academic perspectives. What do you guys think?
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Electronics in Everyday Life (part 1)
So as I was doing my work for classes over this past week I observed how my electronic use affected me in my homework and everyday life. I also observed other people and their use of electronics and the affects it had on them.
So before I get started I want to say I don't know how to computer well enough to add a graph or something so I am going to give statistics in narrative form because I do what I want.
 When it comes to others using technology in their everyday life and how they use it, is very broad in the way people act. I observed two places where I know people are using electronics for everything and those places are the Library and the Student Union at UTRGV.
At the library I what I notice is about 90% of the students on the 2nd floor of the library wear headphones. These students definitely don't want to talk to others unless it is a friend and they are for the most part doing some type of academic work. I observed 10 students sitting at the rowed tables with computers and observed what they were working on. 2 out of the 10 were just watching Netflix and about 3 inches from kissing the screen. Their backs were hunched over and their bodies were in uncomfortable positions. One of those students had their legs crossed and hanging over to the left of the chair while one arm dangled towards the floor while the other propped her head up. The other student had both hands dangling towards the floor and hunched his back occasionally rest his head on his chin and what seemed to me, him straining his eyes to look up at his Dexter show.
The other 8 students were working on what more than likely was academic work had a plethora of tendencies while working. 5 out of the 8 students were working at a slow pace looking at their phones more and staying on longer than their sessions on homework. Most of the students would not last more than 10 minuets on their school work before reaching for their phone. 4 out of those 5 had weirdly enough similar physically movements when transitioning from the computer to their phone. They would be hunched over and move closer to the computer but when they grabbed their phones they would pull back and lean in their chair while messing with their phones. It is also important to point out that each student at one point scratched their eyes after they would put down their phones.
The last 3 students were focused on their work and they each had different ways of showing it. One student was in a rush looking frantically back and forth between his phone and his computer screen. His body stayed in one crooked position while his head moved back and forth between his phone and computer. Another student was chewing on a pen while hunched over the computer. Every now and again he would cross his arms and lean back but never moved his eyes from the computer. The 3rd and last student was surprisingly sitting up somewhat straight while she typed whatever she may have been typing. She would transfer back between tabs every now and then but when she did that she would move in closer to read what she pulled up then moved right back to her upright position to write.  
Interesting ways people compose themselves but this may be reason everyone complains about back pain.
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lizett21lopez-blog · 8 years
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I never expected to be doing a learning record; this allowed me to reflect on my work and grade myself how I see fit. Having to fight for a grade seemed crazy to me at first. I was so use to “regular” grading where you’d do an assignment and be graded on that one alone not on everything you have done up to a certain point. Having to fight for a grade is a great way to help students see their progress or lack of it. I noticed that there were some areas where I could improve and without having to do the learning record it probably would have never crossed my mind to change some of my habits. I feel that more teachers should try and use this method with their students; not only will this make the students feel more involved but it helps them know that grading isn’t always just black and white/ fail or pass, there is a gray area.
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It amazes me how little we can get with so much and how much we can get with so little 
We love quoting others but are too modest to quote ourselves. My own thoughts are good enough. 
I talk to myself. I forget about everything and get self absorbed into a heated argument with myself. (I only know this because people tell me I talk to myself and apparently get really into it) 
Shift thoughts of failure/success to problem/solutions because you are not a failure and what you did is not a failure and because the A is not success, the win is not the success it is the process and finding what your'e missing what you need and finding many many ways to fix them. success 
Working on my invention and frustrated when a solution to a problem hadn’t showed up. My step dad said how many times did Edison work at the light bulb before he got it right? That’s when it hit me I am an inventor not because I have an invention but because I am working out solutions to a problem. 
People should consider an inventor mindset. It’s an impossible world full of solutions and possibilities.
i feel like a failure when i cant do everything. 
When sleep is more precious than food and you remain sleep deprived 
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BELL HOOKS!!!!!!!!!!
OKAY, HERE WE GO!
My chapter was against the wonderful topic of FEMINISM. For as far back in time a women had a simple role her entire life--- care giver. We were property of a man, we weren't really free BUT we were BELONGED to someone. Feminism comes in many shapes, ideas, and forms, and it can also mean and be interpreted in many ways. Chapter 7, begins with telling the reader how it white women felt towards black women. EVEN WOMEN, who where literally on the lowest scale of society still somehow found it necessary to discriminate against black women. White women were jealous of the sexuality of black women and how some men cheated and slept with the “help.” When white women began to see that they were less then black men, they wanted to gain societal freedom from the shackles of being a minority. They later decided to join forces with black women, but even after then they thought they could do it on their own and continued to treat them as second class citizens (even POOR white women, felt superior to them). As time progressed and the white women realized that they weren't enough to actually mean something they came to the understanding that they were all women. they all lived the same societal expectations. they were all the same, discriminated for being a minority. The feminist movement to gain equal rights as men took off as they realized they were all the same. 
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dolivarez01-blog · 8 years
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Jon Berger’s lecture of Art and how we interpret it informed me of the many different ways people can view art. At first I thought this video was going to be about the history of art, and that sounds boring. As I further watched the video, began to see how art can be viewed differently. One example is when Berger shows to the audience a still image of a portrait, followed by a song in the background. The mood and tone of viewing the painting changed dramatically once the music played, depending on the style of song changed my interpretation of the picture. At one point you get a serious tone and it changes to a dramatic  with a different song. I was able to relate to reading with this, hearing music helps me with reading. Since viewing the painting was boring with no music, likewise with reading, at times I’ll listen to classical music, or I’ll change it video game music. I remember being stuck in a level for countless hours, hearing the same tune over and over again. While reading, I’ll play that tune in the background and it’ll help with my hours of reading.
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erixflores-blog · 8 years
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Disability is something that captivated my attention and started to raise my awareness towards individuals/students who are incapacitated in some form such as physical, mental, emotional impairment. 
As I was under the state of scrutiny whenever I was reading, and having a discussion during class in regards of how to execute and come up with new teaching methodology for disabled students is rather a very difficult process that society is undergoing because of the many faculty impairments that many individuals possess that can be very challenging to regulate in a classroom.
There is something that I concur with our instructor in regards that people who are disabled should be deemed as a person who fits under the criteria of diversity just as how people subscribe to a certain religion, belong to an ethnic group, or fall under the LGBTQ minority. Therefore, people with any form of impairment should be deemed as a diverse individual who just happened to be different from the majority of the population.
Overall, it is rather difficult to decipher an effective method to articulate in a perfect manner a classroom filled with students who are born with any form of impairment.  However, the solution that can be presented is giving more accessibility to disabled individuals to education and especially college education because as we build more tolerance and consciousness within our schools that disabled students have just the same right of education as any other average person will ultimately give students with disability inspiration, and maybe along the way new innovative and efficacious ideas of how to execute a class with students who might possess some form impairment will come up due to the tolerance and consciousness that we had built up thus far.
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About a year ago, I was tutoring one of my classes and I discovered something from one of my students. I never truly thought that I might have a student with a disability that would not enable her to learn to write in a normal way. This student was deaf and couldn't hear a word we said. She was luckily provided a translator allowing us to speak, but she made me reconsider how I viewed composition. Not being able to hear didn't prevent her from writing (actually she was one of the best writers in that class!), but I though, "What if she were blind?" I considered this and decided that we would have to make adjustments just like I did already with her interpreter. Disabled students deserve every option to learn and receive education like any other student. Disabled students, even with help from an interpreter or other aid, have to work much harder than normal students to achieve the same level of quality with their writing. It is the job of educators to consider the needs of disabled students and aid them in whatever ways we can. If the interpreter were not provided by the university, it would have been prudent for me to learn basic sign language in order to communicate on a basic level. Likewise, when we watched videos related to our class work, I made sure to turn on subtitles so that she could understand what's being said. Just little extra steps taken by the educator, like this can make a world of difference for a student who has to struggle just to communicate on a basic level with another person. What do you guys think? I am very curious to hear your responses.
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bianca24s-blog · 8 years
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Art Interpretation
 We all have a different Interpretations and perspectives when looking at art. The goal of art is to have a thought and emotion towards it. In the film John Berger shows us different ways of viewing art. You can look at a piece of art and think the art is finished, when it it simply zoomed in with a larger story. Even music can make a huge difference when watching a movie or play. For example scary movies wouldn’t be scary if there were no background music. The presentation and sounds we hear throughout the movie make us react and feel more involved and connected. When writing stories we need to create imagery for the reader and hook them into our words because as painters, we took the time to write our essay and tell our story. 
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Your drawing a picture with words. If students see writing as drawing a picture then they may see writing as fun. Its a time to express yourself, improve your skills, and open your eyes to another way of thinking. We all have different perspectives and interpretations of the way we view a situation, which makes us all unique. Its like when being assigned a essay prompt, we have to create a topic that has multiple views for the students. When writing students need to view themselves as an artist, bring in the viewers to their world. 
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Your Drawing a Picture With Words. :)
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Although, I had the opportunity to observe students as they read and wrote at the library in The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and noticed that student’s kinetic behaviors ranged vastly as they wrote and read their selected materials, I believe that it is not a very good representative of what people actually do when they write within different parameters. I noticed that females and males displayed similar characteristics when writing, both genders would check their phones from about every six to eight minutes, both genders used technology such as computers and tablets to read and write, both genders would stay reading or writing for long periods of times before they stood up to leave the premises, as well as, both genders either sat with their backs straight as they looked at the monitor screen while others laid back as if relaxing. Some key differences between males and females as they wrote and read included: 
Females:                                                            Males:
Ate as they wrote                            Kept looking around.
Stayed in same pose.                     Moved bodies aggressively.
Stayed focus while engaged.         Easily Distracted.
Talked to other girl friends.             Idled a lot of time.
Males and females did have differences but they were similar differences that  vastly impacted their writing in a negative way due to the loss of time and production. The Pomodoro Method that was introduce by Professor Hawkins discusses some key methods for effective writing and good habit building skills which some of these students lacked which also made me reflect about my own writing. 
I have always wrote and taken breaks about an hour into the activity to refresh myself and begin writing again, but after my  first break I keep taking more breaks its not something very thorough like the Pomodoro Method. I always tend to lay down as I write facing down at my keyboard with a pillow holding my head up, I also like to sit in the kitchen and place my books and laptop on the table to begin working on extensive projects. When I do go to the library, I tend to listen to music as I write and read in order to block random noises that will trigger a response and lose my concentration; I like to sit comfortably leaning on the desk as I sit to obtain good visibility of the text I am reading, but most of all I like being alone in a quiet place when I really need to get things done. In my opinion, it all depends on what type of writing one is engaged on what kinetic behaviors we will be producing.
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It amazes me how much time and effort it takes to put into a teaching philosophy statement. I constantly find myself having to leave my work and comeback because I begin to rant and wrestle with the thought of "Well maybe this would be more important?" To be completely honest, I have never seen a solid teaching philosophy statement until I read through Dr. Hawkins statement as well statements online, which were all very similar. So as I am fighting with my thoughts and trying to match the styles since I've never done a real teaching philosophy statement.
I also can't ever seem to stay on one point for more than minuets at a time and it is frustrating!! Like o my gosh to write maybe for 10 minuets only to find that maybe half of the paragraph is ranting on feelings alone, really puts a damper on writing. I may be just about done but I still don't feel confident enough in my statement. It's the joys of writing it seems.
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