Journal Table Five

Maddy Burns

Important Societal Factors/Significant Course Content

Observations from Field Notes


Scan the Prompt Question Sets 1-4 and your B) Discuss your rationale for the Funds of
Annotated Bibliography before answering this Knowledge Data Graphic that you placed
question in Column 1: on the Digital Ethnography Clinical Site
page to illustrate the assets, strengths,
and resources possessed by the learner(s)
A) How do the EDFD 400/401 and EDFD examined in your clinical setting (See
460/461 courses, taken together, help you illustrating-funds-of-knowledge-possible-
now interpret the 3 parts of the sources . You will have identified these
Pedagogical Triangle listed in the Teacher through your observations,
Noticing PPT? conversations/interactions, and research
for your Annotated Bibliography
By taking EDFD 400 and EDFD 460 at the same
time, we are given the opportunity to learn theory The graphic on the influence of gender shows the
and see practice all at once. This allows us to learn information from three different articles. One
theoretically about learning but then also witness it discussed the social construct of gender, another
and see how these theories manifest themselves in explained the challenges boys face, and the final
schools and in children in general. Without the field article gave 18 ways to promote equity in the
experience aspect of the class, making real world classroom. For each article, I summarized a few
connections with the theories would be challenging key points that I found important and key to
and the class would lose a lot of value and impact. remember in the future as a teacher. This graphic
dispels some of the myths children of each gender
It helps us to understand the relationship and face and summarizes some of their unique gender
understanding of students because we get to go challenges in the school setting.
and physically practice getting to know students
and building these relationships. It also helps to
show the ways different levels of relationships
affect the atmosphere of the program. Without
solid relationships between the staff and students,
there would be a lack of trust and respect that
would lead ultimately to chaos and a very
challenging and possibly even hostile environment.

Taking these courses together shows us the
different way students can understand things and
the different theories about how things are
learned, committed to memory, and later used in
practice. EDFD 400 gives reasoning and support
behind the things we see in EDFD 460 surrounding
the teachers' understanding of how students learn
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content.

These courses also help evaluate the teachers'
relationship with and understanding of content
because there were multiple times in each course
where we needed to explain or teach our
classmates about content we had learned. This
made it quite clear if we understood the
information or if we were merely reciting what we
had found in research. Even though this was not
something we practiced a lot on young students, it
was a way to show that it is very important to be
familiar with information and truly understand it
yourself before you teach it to someone else.