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Rhode Island Teachers Respond To PARCC: A White Paper
While reading this article I thought of taking major tests in my life. I would totally freeze, forget what I leaned and feel like I was going to vomit. Imagine being put through this as an adult imagine being a student. As a nurse I watch as the students come to my office one after another with stomach aches, so much anxiety they want to go home. While watching the administration prepare my head starts to spin. On page 9 it states "As one teacher explained, disruption to teaching is huge because schedules were changed on a daily basis even when not testing(and it's) hard for kids to adapt to these changes." Yes I do hear the teachers complain because, with the schedules that changes so does their classes. Some teacher may have to prepare for fewer students, other are taking the PARCC. One of my student cried because she had to take the test in English because she was not designated a EEL learner. She told our reading specialist she did her be...
After reading this article I couldn't help of thinking of my own journey in life. I was always picked on as a teenage by my own classmates. My freckles were my down fall, my classmates looked at my outward appearance and not inwardly. I cried many days when coming home from school. Each dat they would tease me from the beginning of school until the end of the day. They would take a pen make a round circle on their hand and say we won't catch her spots,than they would just laugh. When you get older this truly affects you your whole life, no self confidence and low set esteem. I can emphasize with my students when they struggle on who they are,or what they should do. Some of my students come and share their stories with me. One student who was born a girl shared that from the time she was young she felt like a boy. I always let her share with me the struggle hushed was having. Than one day I was told I feel male and am going to start my transition. The wold ...
Aria-Richard Rodriguez In this article by Richard he is a Spanish speaking young child, and he enters school for the first time, and needs to use English as his school language. To his surprise one morning the nuns come to the family home, and ask the parent to speak only English. At an early age, he realized he was an American citizen. For me when I read this section my heart become sad “But the special feeling of closeness at home was diminished by then. Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates. We remained a loving family, but one greatly changed. No longer so close; no longer so close; bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness. Neither my older brother nor sister rushed home after school anymore. Nor did I.” I felt that some part of the family culture and heritage was gone. “My mother...