Teach Out Proposal

CHOOSE A TEXT: Review your whole blog to remind yourself about what we have read so far in class. What texts have stayed with you so far? What articles inspire you?  What topic matters most to you in terms of your own work? Are there any of these texts that you would like to share with others in your life? 

Shifting the Paradigm from Deficit Oriented Schools to Asset Based Models: Why Leaders Need to Promote an Asset Orientation in our Schools

-This text has stayed with me the most because it highlights my career and what I am doing the most compared to the other texts. This one inspires me to continue my work, uplifting students and showing what a positive community can do for the students themselves. 

The Broken Model

-This text remained with me throughout the following weeks due to the fact that the education system does need a change. The administration is so focused on numbers rather than the potential of a student as a whole. This is important to my work because in UB we are required to conduct an annual report. In the report we must inform the government on the students' standardized test scores. Not, to see the passion of our robotics competition winner getting almost a full ride to WPI because their passion is within engineering. Not seeing that through a student’s experience in Upward Bound that they wanted to get a degree and come back and be a Tutor Counselor and help another generation of students. But a test score that they are continuously forced to take without any insight to our students' great capabilities.

WHO DO YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH? Are there people in your life with whom you would really like to talk about these texts? Colleagues? Students? Family members? Friends? Children?

I would like to share these texts with some of the students in my caseload across three schools in three different districts. 1-2 students from Providence, Pawtucket, and East Providence High School. At first I wanted to use my Center for Scholar Development office team; however, I am privileged in this position to know that the whole team already knows what is being mentioned in the texts. Since the class is called Social Issues in Education and we’ve heard all the adults talking, I felt it was more important to hear from the current students actually being affected and hear their opinions of the texts.

WHAT FORMAT MIGHT WORK FOR YOU? Individual interview? Small group discussion? Art activity? Professional development workshop? Poster for your office? Pamphlet to share? Lesson plan? Etc?

The format I’d like to present is a poster to show the students and how they feel about it and the weight of being a number to the education system. I could possibly make it an art activity to how they feel in the education system as a student. I also plan to interview them, asking a few questions on their involvement in a program and other ones in the community. I’d like to interview their opinions on their schools offerings, grading, and testing.