Savana Gill
Lesson 7 was about the culture and community.
IN this lesson, we had to listen to a podcast about
a boy named Jacinto. Then we had to answer questions
based on our opinion.
Lesson 7 Discussion
In a couple of paragraphs, describe Jacinto.
Jacinto lived with two foster families before he moved with his grandmother at the age of 16. He had a troubled life between his parents and foster families. His mother was a drug addict and his father was abusive. Jacinto’s special ED teacher gave up on him when his behavior wouldn’t change. He was tall and witty in a caustic way.
•When Jacinto told his teacher (Tom McIntyre) to "blank" Off - what was the teacher's response?
The teacher told him he had to rephrase the sentence because “off” was a prepositional phrase. He didn’t take the angry comment personally.
•What happened to Jacinto?
Jacinto was starting to trust people and being a good student. Until he had to move with an older cousin. This cousin was actively involved in a gang. He then also started to be involved in a gang as well. He was sent away so that put him in an insecure place again and he was choosing the wrong path again.
•Based on what happened to Jacinto, why do you think the teacher, Tom McIntyre, wanted to share this story?
There are so many kids that go through what Jacinto went through. I think that the teacher wanted to share his story so that teachers can be aware that we need to teach students differently. With this story, it explains what one student went through of the hard times of being in different foster families and being let down all the time.
•Describe two of the most important (in your opinion) things you learned by listening to this story.
One thing that I found important was that each student is different. If a student is misunderstood or disturbed, they may need more/special attention and for them to not get their ways. And we as teachers should keep to our words to what we say to the students. We could turn a student’s life around. Another important thing is that we as teachers need to make sure that we know more information about each of our students past. If we know where they came from and what they go through we can teach them to where they don’t feel left out or let down because he/she doesn’t understand.
•Did the community let Jacinto down? Why or why not?
Parents and teachers have a huge influence on us. We look up to them whether they know it or not. So when they let us down, we will expect that everyone else will let us down to. This can really cause a child to have a really bad future of wrong choices.
Summary:
I really enjoyed this lesson. I gave me really great information on how we can deal with the behavioral students. I also learned how to treat them.
Research Question:
How can we as teachers help those students who have bad behavioral problems?
References:
Research Analysis:
Students are going to have behavioral problems every now and then. It comes with the jobs that we are signing up for. No matter what teaching job that you end up with, there will be students who like to show out or act up. In the research that I found, there was a man named Bill Rogers who came up with 5 different ways to deal with these students. “He has identified five especially tricky classroom personalities and devised strategies for handling them.” They are, The Chatter Box, this deals with the talking students, the boycotter, this is for the students that don’t want to do their work, the Debater, for students who challenge everything the teacher says, the Sulker, for students who second behavior is usually worse than the primary problem, and the Clinger, for students who have to ask the teacher for everything that they doing the classroom. I think that these five things are a great thing to put to use in a classroom.
Research Summary:
I really enjoyed research this question. With the information that I found I think that I could really use these tips in my own classroom. It would really help to also discipline my classroom.