Centaurus P2T 2019-2020

Dr. Rob Anderson spoke to our class on Monday and had a lot of insight and advice to offer regarding the opportunity and achievement gaps, as well as education in general. It focused my attention towards what I'm experience in the classroom at Ryan, because an elementary school is generally where these issues first stem from, and it begins to snowball from there on. 

It is easy to get behind especially when workloads seem to be never ending. Most people have the tendency to procrastinate their work, which creates a viscous cycle of underachievement. The best strategies that get me motivated to get up and be productive are; 1) Make a list 2) Meditate 3) Yoga 4) Work out 5) Listen to some dank toons

When im not feeling motivated i always think about the consequences. Bad grades, grades dropping and not feeling satisfied. I strongly dislike my bad grades. It stresses me out to see that i have a bad grade in a class. My mom is always on me as well about my grades. Some strategies that i use are, alarms, set reminders, and its a bad strategy but stress helps pushes me to get my work done. 

For my research topic I chose to study human trafficking and how common it is, yet how it is extremely underestimated and undermined, and little attention is brought to it, especially in classrooms. I think that trafficking awareness should be brought to schools because even though it is a sensitive topic, the majority of targets are young females, meaning that if more of our young females are taught in school what to do in a situation like that, then the number of trafficking causes is likely to go down.

I have a hard time self-motivating myself sometimes, I get tired and all I want to do is watch Netflix. In order to finish the things, I have to get done I remind myself that ill regret not doing them in the future, which is true. I get more stressed not doing what I have to do than actually doing what I have to do. The first strategy that I could use to get more motivation is to get everything done early so I can enjoy the rest of my day without worrying about what I have to get done later which keeps me from enjoying myself. The second thing would be what I said at the beginning, to remind myself that it's more stressing to not get things done. The third thing would be to manage my time better, to use my time wisely and find the right times to mess around and finish homework. The fourth would be to start showing up to school more often as we sometimes get time in class to work on assignments. The fifth and final thing would be to keep me mentally stable as that plays a big part

I want my research topic to be about the history of education as there has been no real change in it for a long time. This topic will present itself in the classroom as there are many similarities. I hope to find information about other schools doing different things and show the benefits of these changes if any. By doing my research on this topic I could spread awareness about how we can improve our education system. Hopefully, one day we're able to see more students who enjoy school and learning as having smarter, reasonable people will lead us to a better society.

I am researching mental illness. I think that mental illness is a very big factor in how students perform in class. My students all are normal elementary students from what I see. They all are always happy and excited whenever i see them. Every week they all greet me as I walk through the door to help them.  there can always be something going on through closed doors, but from what it looks like they all are just as happy as normal kids should be. They all participate in after school activities and always look forward to doing those activities.

Social-emotional learning is not common in education as teaching it is not required. Students are expected to learn how to deal with their emotions from their parents. Though not all children are fortunate enough to learn this at home which can lead to poor behavior in school. I think my parents did an alright job in teaching me from right and wrong, maybe a little too harsh sometimes but I wouldn't be who I am without those experiences. I believe teachers also play a big part in who we grow to become. At least for me, they were, I never heard anyone say they believed in me until I went to school. Some of my teachers encouraged me to succeed so as I progressed I finally decided to invest in my education freshman year. Though there isn't a class for social-emotional learning I've learned many useful things about dealing with my emotions through all of my classes. Specifically LA class, recently we read an expert named, "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, which taught