Gorski
As I listened to Gorski the other night, I kept thinking…Wow! He knows a whole lot about culture and what we’ve been talking about over the past year! It was almost a bit overwhelming…how does one get to know that much about something and he looked so young! For me though, I guess that is why we are here, in this program, learning about the things we are learning. Our minds have begun to think about things that I had no idea we would be thinking about when signing up for this program. It’s a good thing. Culture is apart of all of us…it’s how we identify with who we are. Wouldn’t it just make sense for us as educators to tap into our students culture to understand who they are a little bit better. Shouldn’t this be how we should drive instruction? Gorski made a good comment…”We should just throw out all those tests.” I agree…when are we going to begin teach our students instead of teaching our standards? When is what’s best for our students going to be the driving force of how we plan our curriculum? Why is the CRCT the measure of what is important for our children? It’s silly and it’s only going to get worse with NCLB. Gorski made many good points…ones that I never really thought of before…such as the perceptions made by the media on certain socioeconomic communities. We see more of the bad with the lower socioeconomic groups because it is not hidden as well as it is in the higher socioeconomic communities. Gorski makes me want to learn more about the message he brought to us.
