Week 3 Post

I thought that the original idea of having a school where some of the students were taught in English and some of them were taught in bilingual classrooms was interesting. I was very curious about what all was surrounding the circumstances. How were the students selected to be in the different classes? Was there a test? Was it this way for all of the subjects? How proficient were the teachers who were teaching in Spanish and English at both languages? This may be part of my over reactive brain and my need to ask a lot of questions, but I found them all to be valid.
A second part that I found to be interesting was the section where they described the different cognitive functions that the students would need to be able to answer a seemingly simple math question. It also listed the questions that would be asked as means of scaffolding to assess what parts of the question that the student did not understand. This was something that I had never thought about before, asking specific questions to understand what part of the problem that the child does not understand. I hope that one day I will be able to have the same understanding of what I am teaching so that  I can help my students in the same way.

First Post

One of the big ideas that I noticed while reading the article on classroom diversity would be how I agree that as a future educator, we need to figure out ways to incorporate the working and middle-class students’ situations more into our teaching. The author of the article, Rosebery, went into a good amount of detail explaining different forms of teaching trends that were used to incorporate these ideas. One of the ideas that seemed to be helpful was when the teacher allowed for the students to bring in ideas based of their own funds of knowledge for discussion. Having the students engage the work on a more personal level to what situation they are more familiar with seemed to be something that the enjoyed and could relate to more. Vygotsky understood and preached that social and cognitive skills were needed when to have good learning happen. When a student cannot familiarize with the work that has been presented to them, it really causes gaps in learning. I feel that this article is trying to give us an idea that we need to focus on creating examples for our class that will relate to not just the middle class students, which seems to be the case that happens now. We are going to have to present ideas to students that might have disabilities, low income, different cultures, and different social backgrounds. If we do not engage different aspects of sociocultural perspectives to our learning, then we will not be a diverse teacher and will gap some students in our classroom.