Shor Quotes

"To help myself and the students develop participatory bias I begin teaching from the students situation and from their understanding of the subject matter..."(27)
~ This quote suggests that to help students start by teaching them from what they know and work into things that they don't know.

"They reported being bored and silenced didactic lectures in classes where teachers raced to cover the material and ignored their questions." (27)
~I agree with this I find very structured lectures to be boring and often not helpful. I personally don't retain information this way.

"The class hour in itself is structured so that the students reflect on meaningful questions and influence the direction of the syllabus." (27)
~ The quote basically states what teachers should aim for as a reaction of their students.

Final slideshow

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTy71j38fU1zKP39PWT029rX_Wbx0izdfC5rh9Hho-SdW4T3CZVwCWcpNMoQQBu1Hc_V2lesi4LSfrp/pub?start=true&loop=false&delayms=20000

Finn and Oakes Quotes

"For example, in John Goodlad's national study of schools, reported in the book called A Place Called School students in high-ability English classes were more likely to be taught classic and modern literature provided instruction in expository writing and library research and expected to learn vocabulary that would eventually boost their scores on college entrance exams."  

~This quote from Oakes explains that the students in the the higher ability schools will do better on exams because they are able to be provided with more resources. Overall this simply proves that not everyone has access to the same education because of the amount of income their parents make and weather or not they are privileged in any way.

"To be successful heterogeneous classrooms probably need to lean toward placing students more in charge of their own evaluation- checking their own understanding and asking for and providing feedback." 

~This quote from Oakes suggests that in schools students should not be defined as numbers or letters in comparison to other classmates. Rather that they be compared to how the student once was say at like the beginning of the year. I personally really agree with this simply because everyone is a little different and people learn at their own pace and sometimes the grade that they receive may be the best that they can do even if it is not the highest number.

"The status quo is the status quo because people who have the power to make changes are comfortable with the way things are"

~This quote from Finn shows the reader that the ways things are run are by the people who have power over others and don't see anything wrong with the way things are because they are the people in power and my not know what it feels like to have that power stripped from them.

Map Of The Authors

The three Authors that I see the most in my site are Garcia, Rodriguez and Macintosh. A lot of times I am put to work with a student who is working on a college essay or an essay for their internship presentations that they do at the end of each trimester. I often am correcting a rough draft of whatever they are working on and have noticed that more than once the English grammar is not used correctly because the English words are put into the same format and structure as a Spanish sentence would. For example in English we would say something like "the blue shoes" where as in Spanish they would say " Los zapatos azules" which directly translates too "the shoes blue" while the meaning behind what the student is trying to say is there the structure grammatically is off.  This pertains to both Garcia and Rodriguez. Often times when I am working there as well with students they communicate with one another in Spanish and I however, cannot speak it fluently do know a little and can usually pick up on key words to better understand a students question or problem that they may not know how to say correctly in English so I usually can help them. However, the students do become surprised that I do know the amount of Spanish that I do because I am white. This relates ti Macintosh's article about the way that people are read in the world around them.

Link to Map of Authors 

Children with Down Syndrome and Culture "As" A disability Quotes

"Vygotsky found that the culture of segregation surrounding people with disabilities actually teaches under development of thinking through the isolation of children from socially valued  opportunities" (Kliewer 83) 

~ This means that because we are making children with disabilities more limited because they are not exposed to the same resources as kids who don't have a disability because we are separating these students into their own classrooms thinking that they are less intelligent than other students. 

"America will have it's disabilities" (McDermott 344)

~ This quote summaries the article in which it is saying that America won't be working for the fairness of everyone if they continue to segregate against people with special needs in their society.

"As mentioned earlier, people with Down Syndrome are joined in their struggle for citizenship by other oppressed groups" (Kliewer 96)

~ This explains that people who are discriminated against for having down syndrome look to other oppressed groups for support and comfort because they are being discriminated against in many places.