Tessa Roberge's Blog

  Though-out both Kohn's diagram and the video something very important has come up in what they where both writing about and to which was relating to the generation of students or the culture of students they are given. Classrooms that are bright and colorful are great but if there isn't a sign that you care about your students then they are not going to favor or even like you as a teacher. As we have seen and talked about in this course students may not be able to have the energy to want to come to school everyday and some, they depend on the sanctity of a classroom. Though having a respected ideals and rules are important, but it is also important to meet students where they are at. This could be in any regard but for this example more specifically how adding students interests and who they are too the classroom. Making assignments about maybe a popular movie, artist, holiday, video game, content creator, etc.    In a music setting this could mean a world of things. I ...

  In this text, the over arching theme being talked about isn't so much about how students are bad but more about how the education system has failed students to properly educate and create a system that targets students. In Robinsons video, he makes many good points to which one of them comments about a factory machine and I agree with that statement and is also applicable to these readings. Many students go into school move up in grade levels while slowly falling behind in other skills. It could be surface level, like math or English but it is also on a more social and emotional level. This is where those "Troublemakers" are formed.       From a personal standpoint I always was socially delayed, that meaning where the rest of my class acted and liked things a 14 year old would like I was still around the social age of 12. This can be because of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) or of how my parents raised me to be sheltered but regardless I was deemed loud and ta...