Jacie’s Blog

  Great teaching takes a lot as we have learned in this class. Teachers have to take a lot of things into consideration when teaching their students. Some of the questions we have been asked in this class has made us look back on how our previous teachers taught us and we found that some of them weren’t the best teachers in some situations or some handled their challenges in good ways. Know that this semester has come to an end, some qualities I think all teachers should have in order to be a great teacher consist of being caring, showing empathy, being patient, listening to their students, and being enthusiastic. Of course there are many more skills and qualities teachers need but we all have to start at the beginning. For this weeks module we were asked to list our   TOP 5  strategies we enjoyed using in this class below you’ll find my list along with a description of how to use that strategy, the skills the strategy included, why it worked for me and a link where you c...

  After watching “The Disturbing History of the Suburbs| Adam Ruins Everything” we find out that school segregation is even bigger now than it was in the 1970s which is somewhat shocking to me because  I would’ve thought that as a society we would have changed or did something to solve this problem by now. “Segregated by design” tells us that policies and laws that the United States government has put into place is a main cause of segregation because it puts a negative view on neighborhoods where African Americas live and even African Americans themselves.    As I continued to watch this video the speaker goes on to say that schools are largely funded by property taxes and since property values in white neighborhoods are so much higher than other neighborhoods (African Americans or minorities) there schools get way more money to spend on things for their students. I instantly related to this part of the video because I went to a predominately black school where we di...