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Date Significant Observations from Field Notes EFRT 460 Course Content

from 1/27/17 to 3/17/17

I did my field experience at Ridgeway Community B) How do Personal/Cultural Knowledge


School, located in Ridgeway, MN. The school is right or Popular Knowledge shape the
at the edge of the town, which is very small. It is about racialization (pronounced RACIAL
20 minutes, or 18 miles, from Winona. The school is ization) of the white student(s) you will
small, with only 100 students attending the school, be working with in your clinical setting?
and only grades pre-school through fifth grades are (You are REQUIRED to cite the definition
taught. After fifth grade, students go to middle school of racialization on the second to last page
in either Winona or La Crescent. To enter the school, of the Graphic Social Constructs of
visitors have one door to enter through, which open up Difference and use any of the materials in
to a small hall. The building uses the hallway to post the D2L section titled: White Students
announcements as well as students artwork and Racialization Remember white students
projects. The school uses some technology in their are racialized also.
coursework, including giving each student an iPad that I grew up in a small town that was predominantly
they can only use in the classroom. white. There were two students in my high school
that were African American and two students that
were Asian, but the other 495 students were white.
Ridgeway Community School is made up of 100 However, my mother was married to two African
students: 96 are white, 1 is Native Hawaiian/Pacific American men in my childhood, so I had a more
Islander, and three are two or more races. It is pretty diverse household than many of my peers. Culturally,
clear based on this data that Ridgeway Community at least in my observations, we as a society view
school is not very racially diverse. However 32% of people of color differently than we view whites,
the students receive Free/Reduced Priced Lunch especially if they arent Christians. In the news, we
(FRP), which shows that a significant amount of the see crimes committed by non-whites portrayed as
schools population is at or below the poverty terrorist acts by the news, while whites who
threshold (Minnesota Report Card). commit crimes are given excuses, such as, he was
mentally ill or he was abused as a child. As
Student A is an only child who often gets his way at teachers, we need to be aware that our culture
home. On my first day, he presented several defiance glamorizes whites and stigmatizes people of color. I
issues and problems listening to authority. I observed think that it could be very easy to let personal/cultural
that he was in time out three times over the course of knowledge or popular knowledge shape our ideas of
the three hours that I was there, and I noticed that his students, but if we get to know them and truly learn
defiance wasnt just with one teacher; rather he was about our students and their cultures and ethnic
defiant toward anybody regardless of age and gender. backgrounds, we can help to end stereotypes. I
He ignored his peers requests to stop a behavior, and believe that one of the main reasons that people
walked away from teachers. I later learned that this commit crimes and become addicted to drugs and
behavior was improved from the beginning of the alcohol is because we as a society tell certain people
year, when he presented teachers with full-blown that they are worthless or that they are nothing but
tantrums. His behavior was improved with the help of troublemakers. As far as working with students in my
Miss Sally*, who told me that she worked very hard clinical setting, I feel that I let some perceptions
with him on his behavior and listening issues. cloud my judgment at times. An example of this
would be that if I was made aware that Student A has
a difficult home life. Therefore, I discipline Student A
differently than I would a student who has a more
traditional home life. I tend to let Student A get away
with more than I would let other students get away
with because I know that this student doesnt get a lot
of attention at home. On the other hand, Student B is
an only child who isnt disciplined at home, so I was
harder on this student and didnt let them get away
with as much, because I know that Student B runs the
show at home. Both of these students are white, but
there was only one student in my clinical setting that
were of a different ethnicity. I didnt interact with that
student very much because that student was more
independent; she and her friends entertained
themselves and were responsible enough to follow
*Name Changed the rules and get their homework done.

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