Toxic culture of education: Joshua Katz
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STUDENTS' WORK
Taylor Shell
Lesson Plan
Title
How to
make a Clay Pot Gnome
Theme
Visual
Art
Art Discipline:
Any work of art does not have to be perfect. The
beauty of art is that anything you create is a work of art. It is up to use how
you use your imagination and creativity. There will be suggestions of step by
step instructions to follow on how to complete some works of art but it’s up to you how you want to create it.
Grade Level
5th
Grade
Teacher's Name:
Taylor Shell
Volume
Episode 1
Date
4/8/2020
OBJECTIVE
& COMPONENT
Component:
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Studio Skills
Objectives:
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Follows a series of steps to complete an art process
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Seeks opportunities to refine skills and craftsmanship
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Promotes mood or feelings in own artwork through the use
of color, technique, and/or symbolism
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Demonstrates responsible use of materials and tools
Standard
(Competency)
Competency:
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Planning and organizing a series of step to compete the
art process
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The application of the elements of art and principles of
design into two and three-dimensional works of art
Plan
Activity: Create a Gnome
Clay Pot Couple or Individual
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Each student will receive 2 or 1 clay pots to make a
gnome play pot couple or individual.
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Step 1: Trace the hat and the beard pattern onto felt and
then cut out shape. (a printed-out version of the patterns will be handed out)
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Step 2: Add a thick layer of glue on the felt. Form into
a cone shape and overlap the edges to hold together. Let it try for a couple of
minutes.
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Step 3: Paint the pot(s) of any color of your choice.
Once completed, let he pot set and dry for around 10 minutes.
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Step 4: Once you have cut out the shape patterns that you
had printed out, apply to gnome.
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Step 5: Once the pot is dry, place the gnome beard with
the top edge of the pot and stick it in place.
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Step 6: hat on top of the head where there is no brim.
Apply with the Elmer’s Bottled Glue.
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Step 7: You can add any color or sequins to the felt if
you would like. Or any other materials you find around the classroom.
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Step 8: Students will present their gnome(s) to the
class. They will give names to each of their pots.
Assessment
As long as the
project is completed, and the students shows some creativity within his/her
work. Also, students will be graded on how they presented their gnome to the
class.
Completion 50%
Creativity 40%
Presentation 10%
Homework
Create
a Clay Pot Gnome. Make sure you cover the gnome completely using a variety of
materials and be as creative as possible.
Cross-Curriculum
Standards (.5 pt.)
Verbal
Communication to Art Class (Voice and Diction)- teaching students to feel comfortable
and confident in presenting their artwork to the class.
Differentiation
This
lesson is designed for all students regardless of artistic ability. Being able
to design an object you would usually see already made in stores makes students
feel like mini designers/architects. This activity is something everyone will
enjoy and will allow them to break into their creative side.
Technology
There will be no technology used by the
students.
Teacher
will take pictures of all the students’
gnomes to be hung around the classroom. Teacher will hand out the pictures to
the students at a later time.
Written
Component
Students
will write their experience about the lesson plan and what they think makes
their gnome stand out from the rest of the class in their homework notebooks.
What they wrote in their notebooks is what they will later present to the
class.
Careers
Skills
Not many career skills are needed. Need to know how to
cut and paste and paint. Other than you need to have some creativity. You are
set to take on this project.
Students will now feel more comfortable to speak in front
of a class after completing this project.
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Lesson Plan: How to Tie Your Shoes
April 06,2020
Course Subject: Any
Grade Level: Kindergarten, First Grade, or higher grades
Special Education programs
Objective:
The objective of the Lesson Plan: How to Tie Your Shoes,
is personal development. All students need to be able to tie their shoes to
participate in all school activities. In order to get ready for school in the
morning, to go to and from gym class, and to return home from school, students need
to put on and take off their shoes. Parents/guardians often help their children
with their shoes. However, in a classroom setting, teachers sometimes have over
20 students to manage. Therefore, students being able to tie their own shoes
would relieve the teachers from this significant task. This task is designed to
increase students’ self-sufficiency and confidence.
Component:
Personal Development
Competency:
The students will gain independence, autonomy, and
confidence by learning to tie and untie their own shoes. They will also gain
more responsibility over their pair of shoes and, subsequently, their other
articles of clothing and belongings.
Students will learn how to care for themselves, practice trial-and-error,
independent learning, and positively encourage one another.
Plan1.
Introduction of Activity:
Today we will begin learning how to tie and untie our shoes!
Some of you may already know how to tie your shoes, but we will start from the
beginning to review for everyone.
We will go over two methods of tying your shoes- the two-loop method, better known as bunny
ears, and the one-loop method! Then we will go over the different ways to untie
your shoes.
We will work on this, every day this week and, by the end of
this week, you will all become masters of tying shoes!
Rules:
-Please respect yourself, your fellow classmates, and your
instructors.
-Please do not throw your shoes around the room or at anyone
else
-Please respect your classmates personal space
Activity:
-Before beginning to tie shoes, let’s all make sure we have
on our socks and shoes!
-The two-loop method/bunny ears:
-1. Hold your two shoelaces, one in each hand
-2. Make a cross with the laces
-3. Take the top lace and loop it under the cross
-4. Pull the lace through and pull both laces tight
-5. Take one lace and make the first bunny ear
-6. Hold onto the first bunny ear while you take the second
lace and make the 2nd bunny ear
-7. Cross the two bunny ears
-8. Loop the top bunny ear under the cross
-9. Pull both the bunny ears tight
-10. Tada!
-Untie your shoes:
-1. Take one lace in your hand
-2. Pull the lace until the laces come untied-The one-loop
Method:
-1. Hold your two shoelaces, one in each hand
-2. Make a cross with the laces
-3. Take the top lace and loop it under the cross
-4. Take one lace and
make a bunny ear
-5. Wrap the bunny ear around the other lace3
-6. Now you should have two bunny ears!
-7. Pull both loops tight
-8. Tada!
-Untie your shoes:
-1. Take one lace in your hand
-2. Pull the lace until the laces come untied
-3. Afterwards, give the students independent time to
practice tying and untying their shoes independently. Instructors will walk
around to each student to assist them, answer any questions they have, and give
them positive praise
.4. Exit Ticket:
-Each day, after practice time, we will gather around in a
circle on the floor and discuss our experiences; Students can say a minimum of
1 sentence.
-Students will receive an Exit Ticket after they speak
5.Days:
-We will begin this activity on a Monday-Continue this
activity each day throughout the week
-On Friday, we will have a mini-party to celebrate the
students learning to tie their shoes!
Homework
Students will be encouraged to practice tying and untying
their shoes at home throughout the week. It will not be required. However, by
making the activity fun during class time and exciting the students about tying
their shoes, the students should want to show their parents/guardians and siblings
at home.
Assessment
Students will not be given a graded assessment for tying
their shoes. The Instructors will independently tend to each student every day
to answer their questions and encourage them. However, instructors will not
give students grades for tying their shoes because it does not specifically
fall under a school-oriented curriculum. Rather, instructors will give students
positive reinforcement every day and at the mini-party on Friday.
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Millie Chokshi
Millie Chokshi
Millie Chokshi
TAL 324 Final Lesson Plan
April 8th, 2020
Lesson Plan: How
to Create a Skin Care Routine and DIY Face Mask
- General Information
- Course subject: Personal Health and Care/Health Education
- Theme: Personal Development and Self-love
- Art Discipline: Creative Arts and Wellness
- Grade Level: 8th grade
- Teacher’s name: Millie Chokshi
- Date: April 8th, 2020
- Objective: The objective of this lesson is for the students to learn more about skin care, develop a skin care routine that works for them, and learn how to create their own face mask from ingredients in their kitchen. This lesson is rooted in self-love and self-care, and showing my students that taking time out of their day to spend some time on themselves is way to relieve stress, improve mental health, increase positive emotions, and show yourself some love. I hope that students feel closer to themselves and gain intrapersonal skills through this lesson.
Component:
Self Care and Personal Development
- Competency: The students will demonstrate their creative ability to create their own face mask and develop their own skincare routine. Students will also understand the benefits that some vitamins and products provide for their skin. The students will also show respect for the skin care products, ingredients, other students in the classroom, and themselves.
- Plan:
- Introduction of lesson: Explain the topic and lesson to the students, the steps that we are going to do today, why we are learning about skin care, and the benefits to taking care of your skin.
- Rules:
- Listen when the teacher is speaking
- Raise your hand to ask questions
- Be careful when handling skin care products and ingredients
- Be respectful to classmates and yourself
- Clean up after the activity
- Explain to students the skin care routine and model it for them to watch and then do themselves with the products at their desks.
- Demonstrate how to make the face mask with the proper steps and ingredients.
- Encourage students to ask questions throughout the lesson and at the end.
- Empower students to do more research and incorporate skin care in their daily routine. Encourage them to reach out to teacher for tailored skin care routine assistance for their specific skin type.
- Assessment:
- Ensure that throughout the lesson students are attentive and completing the steps with the teacher when applicable
- Exit ticket: Have students write down on a piece of paper 1 thing they learned in the lesson, 1 benefit to following a skin care routine, and 1 other area of self-care they would like to learn more about.
- This can be used by teacher to evaluate the effectiveness of the lesson and brainstorm future lessons regarding self-care that they would be interested in learning more about
- Homework:
- Make another face mask at home with ingredients in their kitchen. Possible ideas will be provided in the lesson. Have them share with the class what they thought of this new concoction and how they felt doing this face mask at home.
- Cross-Curriculum Standards:
- This lesson combines mental health, physical health, personal development, self-love, creative arts, and wellness. It could be incorporated with an anatomy or biology class, dermatology class, and physical education class, and life skills course, and more.
- Differentiation:
- The lesson is pretty inclusive, since most students can participate regardless of age and gender. Skin Care is a stress reducing activity and it can be altered depending on the students so that those with barriers are still able to participate.
- Technology:
- Although there is little technology, resources such as skin care products and ingredients for the face mask are needed. Hopefully, the school budget can provide this but if not the products and ingredients can be tailored depending on the resources provided. At home, students can decide which products to make and purchase depending on their interests.
- Written component:
- Students are encouraged to take notes during the lesson, write down the steps to their skin care routine, write down the ingredients they use for the face mask, and create the exit tickets.
- Career Skills:
- This lesson will help students learn the importance of self-care and some ways they can take some time out of their day to spend time working on themselves. By caring and loving yourself, you become more productive and thus fruitful in your work life and personal life. I hope this lesson holistically helps the students as humans have a happier and healthier life.
Joshua Katz's main message is saying that the basis of the problem in our education system is due to the public narrative of schools, teachers, money, and the objective crave of standardized testing results. The academic identity for our youth is set at such a young age, and when these students fail they create their own mindset of being a failure discouraging them from future academic motivation. Private companies operate policies written by non-profit organizations to buy more resources, textbooks, etc. in order for them to profit the most out of their companies. Our system pays no attention to personal values and commitments so that this way we blame the so called failure and accountability on our schools, teachers, resources, and students' dispositional abilities rather than their situational circumstances. We blame the schools or teachers rather than the student missing a non-cognitive characteristic that is essential for their success. We must shift our mindset towards the students. The solution to this problem is to train and develop relationships with students by teaching them to think, reason and learn by allowing teachers to develop their own plan to mold and shape the environment of students as they are the in direct contact with students. Policy makers and private companies exploit our students to gain the most profit out of these so called "failures" rather than try to fix the problem at the core.
ReplyDeleteSonny Qadir
Joshua Katz main message is that the education system is so toxic that they are not assessing students on what they really need to know, but instead letting standardized tests determine where they are headed in life. Students can only move forward from grade to grade if they pass standardized tests and this bring anxiety to students as young as elementary. I agree with this because I would get this anxiety too. I have always been terrible at these tests and thought it should not define whether I am smart or not. Teachers should be allowed to develop their own assessments that fit the group of students that they are teaching. If students feel that they are understood and given a chance to find their place in this economy, then they will value education and make better life decisions once they leave school.
ReplyDelete-Jessica Maristany
Joshua Katz's main message is that the public education system solely exists now for the purpose of financial gain for private corporations, instead of for the educating and bettering of our future society. Instead of finding the root of the problem to work with children based on what they need, private companies like Pearson make money by producing new textbooks and new standardized tests, leaving so many children in the dark. A big change needs to happen, but it will take a lot of people who care to do it.
ReplyDelete-Remi Petit
Joshua Katz's main message is that the standardization of education is creating a toxic culture that does not focus on the student. The education system does not cater to every student leaving some to fail. His quote in the beginning of the video informs his message. The education system is designed for one kind of student but does not fully develop everyone.
ReplyDeleteI think Joshua Katz's main message is that our U.S. education system is in need of great reform. In our current education system, certain students are failed because they cannot learn from the methods our schools use. While the rigorous testing can motivate some students, other students can fail simply because they have testing anxiety or because they are not a good test taker. Regardless of how these students perform on the tests, they forget the information shortly after because the teaching methods and their studying methods are not solidifying the information in their brain. Furthermore, some students prefer the arts over the standard english/math/history/science curriculum. Overall, Katz showcases the many problems in our education system and their negative impacts on students throughout the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI believe Joshua Katz's main message is that the US education system needs to change greatly. Currently, there are some students who aren't doing well in school only because the way the information is taught. The education system and staff members need to understand that not every student learns the same way and just failing them won't help them at all.
ReplyDeletePrivate companies are destroying education, making education more of a business deal than a focus on student achievement and personal values. Right now our values are focused on high stake testing, achievement, benchmarks, etc. rather than non cognitive factors that allow them to succeed. We are thinking too much of the education system as a whole, rather than the needs of the individual students. The current education system ingrains in our brains that if we don’t get x score on standardized tests, we are not going to get into college. And if we don’t get into college, we won’t get a decent-paying job. and if we don’t get a decent paying job, our lives are failures. Our education system is basically telling pre-teenage aged kids that if they don’t do well on one test, their lives will be over. And that kind of mindset sets everyone up for failure. -Faith
ReplyDeleteI think this video is really interesting because it really shows that the education system expects all children to adhere to the system in place and is not flexible to different types of children and what they need to learn. It is not about the children and making sure they are well educated but actually to be financially successful and be, like everything else in the USA, a business. -Emily
ReplyDeleteI think Joshua Katz main message is to shed light on the issues in education that stem from business & monetary models that are negatively affecting students. One of the biggest issues he talks about is how students successes are measured and how the real reasons why students may be failing is not a result of the actual education they are getting. I thought it was really interesting how he pointed out the textbooks that students are using don't change in information substantially, yet every year a new edition is published to drive the business for publishing companies. It really is sad how students who are "failing" in school aren't given the chance to succeed because of external factors and how much it resonates into their professional careers because we live in a society that requires a college degree for most jobs. The takeaway of it all being that the driving factor behind education is no longer to educate students it's to make a profit, sad, but true and it needs to change.
ReplyDelete-Katie Kean
DeleteJoshua Katz discusses his coined concept, toxic culture of education. He argues that the public narrative is corrupt: the dirty money exchange between private companies, non-profit organizations, and the political field at the expense of students, teachers and genuine education. I agree with nearly all of his declarations and accusations in his video. He protests that the current relationship between the laws governing public education and the actual educational environment, namely the effects on the students' academic experiences and successes, is toxic. He supports re-writing the public narrative to accurately reflect the voices of the students, teachers, and the schools in the policy-making process. Also, he argues the elimination of standardized, high-stakes testing as a means of assessing and characterizing. Rather, he advocates for a whole-student, whole-school approach. He believes the teacher who supports their students' interests, abilities, and non-cognitive factors. He finds the current curriculum to not prepare the students will all valuable knowledge (ie. re-instating home economics as a math credit course-I personally am very supportive for this type of idea.) Kaici Aloupis
ReplyDeleteJoshua Katz explains how the current education system doesn't have its priorities correct, and is focusing on being a business and making money instead of focusing on helping the students. He talks about how schools base the students' worth on standardized tests, when in reality, we should be basing the students on themselves and their abilities and encouraging students to reach their full potential. Our school system does not focus on the right things and is not effective in creating channels in which all students, no matter their background, history, or family, can find success and be a productive member of society. Joshua Katz really emphasizes that our school system needs a great reform, teachers need to be given resources, and politicians need to truly care about other people and not business or money.
ReplyDeleteI think Joshua Katz's main argument is that the standardization of education and this toxic culture of testing is taking away from the student's ability to learn and have a better education. Private education companies profit off the fact that students fail standardized tests. These companies' business plans are not benefitting the long term education of the individuals. He believes, and I agree, that these standardized tests give false validity and academic identity to students. They want you to keep buying and buying and buying new textbooks and educational tools in order to "keep up". This toxic culture of education takes away from curiosity and true learning. Students just want to get an A and get good test scores. I agreed when he said an emphasis has been placed on rigorous classes, taking away from relevant classes and creative classes like the art. Joshua Katz does a great job placing highlighting a lot of pertinent issues that need to be addressed by education reform.
ReplyDelete-Lexie Fioto
Joshua Katz argues that the education system is flawed, for universities focus on being functional, profitable businesses rather than what the system is designed for: educating students and promoting intellectual creativity. He supports a re-design of the entire education system because he believes that our current system does not allow a truly diverse student body (race, age, financial status, etc) to each find personalized successes and does not allow for an exploration of interests. Education needs to be less standardized, and more personalized.
ReplyDelete- Luke Didriksen