Current Connection 1

For this reading, I wanted to focus on the here and now with schools. Most schools today are standardized and conventional, which makes a complete revolution of the school system difficult. I wanted to see how to implement elements of Progressive Education within the framework of Conventional Education. The article I chose for my current …

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Reflections on my service learning experiences

From my perspective, the exacerbation of bias of college students participating in service comes from negative service experiences. Oftentimes, college students partaking in these service-learning experiences are not given much direction from their professors nor the staff helping to supervise the experience, and are left to figure the situation out on their own. College students …

Questioning my experience, the people, and myself

For this semester, I am helping a group of eighth-grade students with a project that focuses on a social justice issue of their choice. Since the group of kids I am working with happen to be first and second generation immigrants, we decided on the issue of how immigrants are treated in the kids’ community, …

Current Connection 2

For this reading, I wanted to focus on the religious establishment argument that the author is making. From what I read, I gathered that the vouchers supplied to the families did not have any strings attached, hence they decided to use the vouchers at whatever school they wished. The schools most of the families chose …

Learning Experience 1

For this reading, my LC group chose to emphasize practical applications to the teaching of history for future history teachers that don't involve the textbook. We also wanted to emphasize that it is important to teach multiple perspectives on particular historical events in addition to the perspectives most prominently featured in traditional history learning. Through …

Introduction

Personal Information My name is Logan (she/her) and I'm a sophomore majoring in English and Education. I would like to teach English/Language Arts in a high school or college setting. My hometown is Westlake, OH, but I've lived in many other places, namely (in order) New Jersey, Nebraska, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas. I enjoy …