HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME

1. "HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME"

2. CHAPTER ONE Page 5: Michie asks students to write down interests so he can know them better. �If students think you don�t care, neither will they.� Page 5: Michie has students read from: Malcolm X, Claude Brown, Mary McLeod-Brown, Marcus Garvey, and Charles Drew. Teaching for Social Justice GREG MITCHIE 2

3. CHAPTER TWO Page 32: Speaking with Hector after an emotional outbreak: �I know how you feel.� Displaying Empathy for his students. Page 23: Michie Notes that students draw from prior experience (out-of-doors). Core Constructivism Michie with College Students 3

4. CHAPTER THREE Page 41: Michie has students listen to a story and relate to their personal experience. �Learning has to be real to students.� Constructivism Page 42: Quincy Elementary has all of the low achieving fifth graders in one class. Tracking. Michie notes not �official policy�, but obvious and he addresses students so they do not feel labeled Email@ilstu.edu 4

5. CHAPTER FOUR: Page 55: Michie is taking graduate level courses. �Quality Teachers are life-long learners.� Michie has students read from Sandra Cisneros works to relate to their environment, then forms the Mango Girls to have them help other students. Teaching for Social Reform, and having higher achieving students �pull up� lower achievers. 5

6. Chapter Five: Page 74: Michie and colleague combine classes to teach together so students get the influence of two minds. Collaborative Teaching. Page 75: Michie organized curriculum around themes. Thematic Teaching and Constructivist thought �I wanted to try to organize the teaching of writing around themes that were meaningful to the kids� 6

7. CHAPTER SIX: Page 90: Michie aligns his media production with critical theory. Trying to push students to higher levels (Evaluation and Synthesis) in Blooms Taxonomy. Page 93: Michie has students deconstruct concepts in the media. One job of a teacher is to look for �agendas� or to be more �discriminating� 7

8. CHAPTER SEVEN: Page 110: Students advize that the subject matter (lesson plans) is �boring�. Michie seeks to engage students by modifying. Rachael Ray analogy. It should be changed to engage the students Page 113: Michie notes that some students think different like Samuel with his model floor plan. Gardner�s Multiple Intelligence, Myers-Briggs, and Learning Styles 8

9. CHAPTER EIGHT: Page 133: Michie finds a way to look, �not at gangs, but at people� and teach with that concept. Social Reform Theory. Page 134: Michie asks students to write about positive and negative aspects of Back of the Yards. HOTS. Students encouraged to compare and contrast. 9

10. CHAPTER NINE: Page 154: After Reggie is physically abused by police, Michie shows how democracy works in the real world. Dewey (1916). Progressivism Page 150: Michie relates to all minorities that have been pre-judged and seeks understanding. Empathy. 10

11. CHAPTER TEN Page 166: Michie deplores standardized test scores and advocates different ways to assess. Multiple assessments to accurately measure learning. Page 171: Michie pushes Elena to search out answers to problems in her environment. Social Constructivist Theory 11

12. THE STUDENTS: Tavares: �I wanted to do what I wanted to do.� Other teachers did not engage him through heavy structure 12

13. Hector �When I got that award in your class, that Michie award that you put in plastic and everything. That was cool because it made me feel like I was doing something good.� POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT 13

14. Armando �Last year, I had a good teacher. It was interesting in there. We did projects and made posters for books we read.� Likely Constructivist, with student centered focus 14

15. Nancy �When Sandra Cisneros came to Quincy, I was shocked. It was kind of like a hero story for me when she came. I never heard stories like hers on T.V.� Colloquia 15

16. Lourdes � As far as school goes, I�ve never liked history or social studies� �I just think it is another example of the white man�s thinking about what went on, from their point of view.� Acceptance, Michie recognizes culture, ethnicity and diversity (See Loewen, 1995) 16

17. Paloma �The most important thing I learned in Media Studies is that I have a voice in society, that just because we are kids doesn�t mean we shouldn�t have a voice.� Michie gave them a voice. Dewey �Schools should mirror society.� Mattie �Students want to be treated fair, with respect 17

18. RUBY �Some teachers don�t explain the material in a way we can understand.� �Kids in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, they like school because the teachers play with them. The teachers actually sit down with them and explain things to them.� Michie had high one-on-one instructional time with his students. Incresed comprehension levels 18

19. Juan � To me a good teacher is someone who understands the student, if the teacher knows how the students are thinking, you can teach a class more easily. If you see the kids are dead, common sense will tell you you better change your strategy, you know?� Michie used Teaching and Learning Styles, Engagement, Differntiated Instruction to keep interest levels high. 19

20. Reggie �I just can�t keep my attention in class sometimes. And my teachers know I have this problem. It was like she knew what problems I was having, and she asked the question on purpose, trying to make me look stupid.� Michie Approached his students in the exact opposite: he used compassion and more thought provoking questions-not right or wrong questions 20

21. Yesenia �Teachers should be encouraging students, telling them, �You have this gift. You�re very good at this.� Then kids might see school in a different way.� Michie, above all, showed he cared for the welfare of the student. He used confidence building strategies to do so. 21