Kim’s Blog

I feel that behavior management is not only managed with a behavior chart but also with the classroom environment and student/teacher and student/student relationships. This way of thinking fits with the sections from Oakes and Lipton: “Open” Classrooms,…if schools treated students humanely and respectfully, these qualities would prevail in classrooms”  (pg. 265) and “Making Classrooms Communities” [...]

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The class discussion about Freire’s quote of how our identity is formed through, “the dynamic relationship between what we inherit and what we acquire” really got me thinking (p.124). This quote caused me to reflect about how our true identity is always being modified and personalized by our daily interactions with others and the world. When [...]

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This article really intrigued me.  As teacher, we need to follow the advice that we teach our students about standing up for ourselves and doing what is right. This goes along with Elizabeth Jaeger’s experience from this article as she states to her students, “I have always taught you to stand up for what you [...]

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After reading both assignments and after class discussion, I believe that both the whole language and phonics approach to teaching work best when used together.  In my eight years of teaching, I have taught Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and First Grade.  Throughout these grade levels I have been fortunate to witness phonics skills that build on one [...]

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