Good class today! We got a lot accomplished, and made some good decisions for all of us.
So, a couple reminders: We will meet from this week forward at 8:30 rather than 9:00, and will wrap up a bit early so that you can rush to the computers and work on your research articles. :-)
The last week, per your request, we will meet at DTC on Thursday night, rather than on Saturday of the holiday weekend. We will start promptly at 5:00 with presentations, and those who need to arrive a bit late can enter quietly between presentations. Hopefully we'll have you all in place by 5:30.
And next, watch for an email with four attachments: two sample reflection papers, the sample outline, and a sample presenter's powerpoint. These should help as you prepare for next week's presentations.
And finally: here's your reminder to post your two article bibliography for Community Connection to this blog not later than Wednesday evening. Remember to include a sentence or two explaining the general content of the articles and how they relate to your "puzzle of practice" focus!
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I found a link from the Community Connection sample you sent out Carol. I followed it and others and found some great ideas to get parents involved in their kids' education. This is a major issue at Field. Although everyone wants to see it happen, no one seems to know where to start.
ReplyDeleteThis first article discusses the definition of successful parent involvement, barriers and ways to get parents involved.
http://www.centerforcsri.org/index.php?%20option=com_content&task=view&id=130&Itemid=5#parent
The second article is actually a program called TIPS (Teachers Involving Parents in Schoolwork) from John Hopkins Univ. There is alot to glean and apply, even if your school is not a member. There are also some interesting looking publications that I would love to buy for my school's new principal. :)
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/tips/index.htm
If other people are looking for similar article, there are plenty of links to follow on this topic.
Maureen
Another great article from Educational Leadership that closely ties in on how to create School Learning Community with educators, parents, students and community partners working together towards school-wide goals.
ReplyDeletehttp://pdonline.ascd.org/pd_online/success_di/el200405_epstein.html
I found this article on ERIC. It is titled "Learning to Roar." It is about empowering lower-income and minority families in order to close the achievement gap. The author started a community group to do this and writes about the experience.
ReplyDeleteCowhey, M. (2010, January). Learning to roar. Education Digest, 75, 56-60.
Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com.dml.regis.edu/ehost/ search?vid=3&hid=104&sid=2497498d-1a74-4af8-aece-837fbf6b8e5b%40sessionmgr113
This article, titled "Community Involvement in Education" is about the disappearing role of the community in education. Today students are so isolated from the community and this should change. This article is about a high school that aimed to increase community involvement within the school by bringing the community in and having students go out into the community.
ReplyDeleteI picked this article because I think that making community service mandatory is a good idea.
Patterson, B., & Horwood, B. (1995). Community involvement in education.
Experience and the Curriculum, 20, 3-18. Retrieved from
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/14/ a3/45.pdf
Here are two articles I found on ERIC that I am using for my Community Connections Strand:
ReplyDeleteRoberts, T., Brunner, J., & S, B. (2006, Spring). ESL Programs and LEP Students: A Comparison of Public and Private Schools along the Wasatch Front. Multicultural Education, 13(3), 27-32.
Summary: One of the smallest minority cultures at my school is language learners. This article looks at how public and private school have a different approach to language learning minorities.
Anyon, J. (1980). Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work. Journal of Education, 162(1), 67-92.
Summary: This article deals with the how one's income level can effect education and create minority cultures among schools.
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ReplyDeleteI found an interesting article about minority students in a predominantly white school. The article discusses thoughts and feelings of minority students in a school where the student and teaching population is mainly white.
Marx, S. (2008). “Not blending in”: Latino students in a predominantly White school.
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 30, 69-88. Retrieved from http://hjb.sagepub.com.dml.regis.edu/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/69
The second article I found details how parent and community involvement at schools can help with school absences. I picked this article because there is a pretty big problem with absences at my school.
Sheldon, S., & Epstein, J. (2004). Getting Students to School: Using Family and Community Involvement to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism. School Community Journal, 14(2), 39-56. Retrieved from ERIC database. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/3d/bc/12.pdf
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ReplyDeleteCleaver, S. (2009, September). Simple steps to a peaceful classroom: Why social and emotional learning has to come first. Scholastic | Instructor magazine. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3754088
This article is about creating peaceful classrooms, schools, and districts by implementing social-emotional learning (SEL). Compared to previous decades, more kids are growing up in single-parent or dual-working-parent homes. SEL programs deal with teaching respect and help kids to deal with the world around them. As a teacher my "puzzle of practice" is reflecting on the causes and roots of an issue instead of just looking at why a kid is acting out. SEL programs could help in a variety of classrooms.
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Flannery, M. E. (2010, May). Building a better school: How do you close the achievement gaps? National Education Association | NEA. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.nea.org/home/38962.htm
This article is about increasing academic achievement and graduation rates by a combination of academic programs, parental involvement, and professional development. This school is getting the students and community involved by having events such as "Hispanic Family Night" and having a group where the kids go to the elementary school down the road and tutor or down to the food pantry to help the hungry. This fits into my "puzzle of practice" by helping me to understand that it is not always about the content we teach, but how we teach it. Teaching kids the skills that will help them to make better moral and ethical choices as adults - making them productive members of society.
This first article defines what parent involvement is, what some barriers may be, and how to improve communication between parents and schools.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Getting_Parents/
The second article is from the ERIC database and shows research about how both parents and school staff and administrators responded to survey questions about parent involvement. It showed that parents believe they are important partners with the schools but that schools wouldn't take their input seriously.
Ferarra, M. M. (2009). Broadening the myopic vision of parent involvement. School Community Journal,
19(2), 123-142. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.dml.regis.edu/
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I forgot to connect them to my "puzzle of practice"! I want to know more specifics of how to get parents involved because my cooperating school didn't offer much as far as parent outreach and then staff would complain that parents didn't attend conferences, so I want to know more about what parents DO perceive to be their obligation of involvement and how we as teachers can help them feel more welcomed. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy first article is the importance of getting parents involved with their child's educations. Particulary, the impact a father's involvement in their children's school has on the success of their child.
ReplyDeleteStarr,L. (2006). Bring your fathers to school! Education World. http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin072.shtml
My second article talks about the importance of preparing teachers in family involvement. It explains the importance of parent participation in children's schooling, yet the lack of many schools efforts to promote family participation. It has suggestions for ways to io create a bond between the school and parents.
ReplyDeleteHopkins, G. (2006). New skills for new schools: Preparing teachers in family involvement. Education World. http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin039.shtml
The first article that I found talks about multicultrual education and how we can make a more mulitcultural classroom for our students. This has many different links to it and many different articles that go with it. There is one that talk about how we develope sterotypes as adults but also as childeren and what can be done about those. There is a lot of good and interesting information on this site.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk1.htm
The second article that I found is about parental involvment in their childeren education. This was a huge study that was done about how parents are involved. This breaks it down into SES and demographics. There is a lot of good statics in this research. It is a little old but i found it interesting.
ReplyDeletehttp://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98032.pdf
Wow, what a treat to come here and find all these articles. I feel like I should start reading right now!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing the rest, and to hearing your first data-based presentation/discussions this week.
I'm a bit late in posting these....sorry about that! I also used the online data bases through Regis and searched using terms that were specific to the minority groups that I focused on during student teaching.
ReplyDeleteThe first article is entitled "Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual youths' Perceptions of their high school environments and comfort in school." The article dicussed numerous studies that have been done on homosexual students over the past decade and the alarmingly high number of these students who continue to be verbally and physically victimized in schools. It also spoke to the importance of teachers creating classroom environments that are deemed safe spaces for these students.
The second article I selected is entitled "Sharing Power in the Classroom". The article focused on practical things teachers can do in their classrooms to help student take ownership in their education. The ideas is that creating participatory classrooms gives all students a voice. This is extremely important for minority students as they can feel excluded and powerless in schools.
Here are the two bibliographies:
Elze, D. (2003). Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youths' perceptions of their high school environments and comfort in school. Children & Schools, 25(4), 225-239. Retrieved from CINAHL with Full Text database.
Richard-Amato, P. (2002). Sharing Power in the Classroom. ESL Magazine, 5(1), 16-18. Retrieved from ERIC database.
Understanding Poverty, by Ruby Payne
ReplyDeleteThis is a book I use a lot to better understand the community in which I am teaching. She discusses the hidden class rules that drive each of us, usually without even knowing we are affected by these hidden rules. I find this book fascinating and a must read.
Reaching Out to Families and The Community: How Some High-Performing Schools Are Engaging Families and Citizens to Support Student Achievement
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/44/27/41.pdf
This article describes a variety of effective suggestions for increasing community involvement and school success. The author is very reflective while describing his journey through his academic achievement. He explores reasons for success and breaking down the barriers keeping families from feeling welcome in schools.
Team, I am sorry this is late, but good information.This is a book, however, specifically the introduction and chapter one describe how to go about learning about community. I like the authors directive to do the simple and obvious. Taking time to listen and talk with people provides the opportunity to learn. Out of Poverty by Paul Polak. This is of interest to me as a middle-aged, middle-class, white guy who wants to teach and build effective connections with students that have very different backgrounds and experiences than I do.
ReplyDeleteMy second article is a short read by Leigh Donaldson, a writer in Portland. "Better Education System must Engage entire Community" puts forth the importance of service-learning and how this model helps keep students interested in school and at the same time lets the surrounding community experience what gifts and talents young people bring to the community. This is important in my community connection has a part of my reflection and student character development and practice that I would like to embed in my teaching.
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/better-education-system-must-engage-entire-community_2010-04-12.html