Kevin's FNED 246 Blog

 When you look at everything, we have done this semester, what stands out to you as meaningful?

1. Banga Card Game- This game to me was very interesting and meaningful due to the fact that everybody was given different rules, and everybody was playing their own rules and thought that they were right. Some people while playing the game were talking and trying to tell the other people which cards were which even though we all had different rules. This soon came to lead people to give up and not try anymore which was a very good way to show how much we rely on people to help us when we are struggling.

2. Service Learning- This experience was very meaningful to me because before doing this, I have never observed a classroom on my own. It was very important to me due to the fact that I want to be a gym teacher when I get older and now, I know that a physical education class should be a place where these kids get away from their work and just have fun. This also has show me what these teachers go through at times and how stressful it can be when student's do not listen and are constantly interrupting the class.

3. Shalaby Troublemakers- This author was very interesting and meaningful due to the fact that out of every author we viewed, Shalaby made the biggest impact and was the easiest for me to connect to. I agree when Audrey talked about how powerful Shalaby's text was and how easy it was for me to connect to in the real world.

Kevin's FNED 246 Blog

 Queering Our Schools

Blog #10

For this blog, I will be pulling quotes from "queering our schools" and explaining why they are important.

Quote: "How do we create classrooms and schools where each child, parent, and staff member's unique, beautiful self is appreciated and nurtured?" I think that this is a very big problem in this world, and I have had several experiences where I have been in situations where people are getting bullied or made fun of because of how they look, how they act or what they say. 

Quote: "Just because people may dress or look a certain way on the outside, that does not necessarily mean they feel that way" This was easy for me to connect to because I have been in many situations where somebody has been judged or made fun of for something that they did but they don't even know the person and will just start making false accusations about them. 

Quote: "In a recent survey, six out of 10 LGBTQ teens said that they felt unsafe at school and 82 percent had been verbally harassed because of their sexual orientation". After reading this, this made me think about how teenagers in my middle school and high school felt when a topic was brought up or if they got made fun. I think that it is a terrible thing to judge someone of what they choose to make their life out to be. Everybody is different and everyone has the right to make their life out of what they want. If somebody has a problem with how someone chooses to live their life, the best thing to do would be to just keep your mouth shut and ignore it but not say something verbally just because of their orientation. 

Attached HERE is a link on how to avoid harming LGBTQ and how you can become a better person by supporting them because everyone deserves to be supported. 

Kevin's FNED 246 Blog

 Elimination Ableism in Education

For my blog post #9, I will talk about my experiences through ableism and the connections that I have had throughout my life. 

I feel as though I am a very caring and kind person, and I will always stick up for people when I think something is wrong or someone is being laughed at or made fun of. Throughout my whole life in education, the public schools that I have been to have always been big in being kind to everyone and treating everyone with respect, no matter how you look or act whether you have a disability or not. In every public school that I have got an education in, there has been a lot of people who have had ableism in my schools. My schools have done things such as make unified sports teams, clubs for people with disabilities and even have made what they call "college" for them in the school after they graduate. I think that this is extremely important because not everybody will go to college or know what to do straight after high school, especially if you have a disability or are not able to perform as well as others. For my connection, I want to talk about one of my friends that I made in my gym class who loved sports but wasn't the best at them. Nobody would ever want him on their team and wouldn't ever choose them. However, I was completely different. I didn't care about whether my team won or lost I just cared that he was having fun and enjoying it. I would always volunteer in being a captain and I would always choose him first to be on my team because I wanted him to be happy and this would always make him happy and make him think that somebody wanted him on his team. People would always say stuff to me such as "wow your teams really good" or "you're not going to win any games". Coming from a athlete my whole life and still a athlete here at Rhode Island college, I didn't care about winning or losing in gym class. I just wanted to make sure that kid was happy. He rarely had any friends as it was so the time that I had with him I wanted to make him feel worthy of himself and that he was wanted for once. 

Attached HERE, is a link to a page that I think is extremely important and is a severe worldwide problem. People think that they are better than someone with a disability in which I believe that everybody should be treated the same and fairly.