Blog 7

"Creating an Anti-Racist Classroom"

In this article the author speaks about how unfair the minority is treated in a classroom.
 "there were 149 suspensions and expulsions for every 100 black students compared with 32 for every 100 white students." More kids who are black are getting written up more than white kids, There is a huge difference on how the teacher treat different students of color. Many teachers said that for white students they had an excuse for why they acted out. They have more compassion for the white students which is very unfair towards students of color. She wants to raise awareness to our own biases. She wants to make a classroom a place of equality and everyone has a chance. 

Then she list out 5 ways we can be a better teacher who treat our students equally.
The first step is not to ignore race. What she means by this is not "pretend that race doesn't exist or doesn't matter." We must not pretend that once race is not here, we must acknowledge that race and make it safe for them to be in the environment we created. And if things that comes up that talks about a race, we as educators must use the right words and "find positive language to acknowledge difference and to remind your students of all the ways they are similar". 
The second step is to find help from community centers, especially in neighborhood of color. That will assist us with our own biases.
Step 3 is about that we shouldn't assume things about people of colors, like if they are from a low-income family or first person in their family to get a higher education because that not always the case. We must respect were they come from and their culture.  
Step 4 is about reading more into other peoples culture to educate themselves, so they offend someone and their culture. As an educator we must know a bit of every culture so we can be respectful towards them. 
Step 5 is to be self-aware, we must know ourselves to improve ourselves. We must ask ourselves these hard questions that will make us uncomfortable. These questions will make us realize our biases and put ourselves on check.  

Blog 6

As an Asian-American male, I feel like I have a lot of privilege, not like white people do but more then others. I haven't gotten pulled over, People don't feel scared around me. I don't really know if people have a bias opinion on my culture or race ... If so I haven't heard of anything. Or maybe Im super unaware of these things. There are stereotypes about Asian people that are like we have " high standards", "Good intentions,"...I just asked my sister if we have any privilege as Asian American and she said that we are considered " Honorary White because of how well we do in school.
I don't know how to feel about it. Like should I feel honored? But I don't like it. It insulting actually. Apparently we are not good enough, but if we are, we are " honorary whites" not the race we are... cause that not good enough. or thats how I see it...  
Linking this to my classroom I would think I would treat my students on how they act then the color of their skins. Maybe im clueless on my own biases that I don't recognized that I have them.

Observation 3

What I notice is that I'm not that really prepared as I thought I was when it came to state standards. Also that the pressure of doing well to " have a great life" which is stressful and gives me a lot of anxiety and schools don't teach us how to deal with stress and anxiety. If we want our students to do better in testing overall we should teach them how to deal with stress and the different types of stress and  how to deal with anxiety. Most students do have test anxiety which makes them perform not as well as they usually do. I have test anxiety which makes me perform bad, and I have a bad habit of rushing through it because im self-
conscious about it and I just want to leave...
They have these test that teachers don't know whats on so they don't know how to perpair for the state standards. They might have an idea but not an exact answer. I feel like what is missing is how confident the students feel. I know when I'm taking the Acts and other test like that I don't feel as confident as the other students who took an "Act prep class" which cost money to take. If they offer a class like that, they should offer it for free where other students who are not financially stable to take it as well.
Testing for an Ib Art student is very different this year, They have to compare and contrast two different artist and evaluate their work. " This test is more about analyzing than it's about creating, which i hate." -teacher.

TechTool Kit 5

One good technology I can use in art classroom are video games! To be more specific is minecraft. My niece plays that game all the time. and she is also an artist. She is only in the third grade and she told me she wants to teach art as well and when she told me i felt so happy and proud! But I played a little bit of it was well and I think its a pretty cool game that kids and adult can play. It is a very creative game. I seen people build a lot of crazy things with that game that is mind blowing. I feel like if I can implement that into my classroom I feel like it can help students get creative with their art. It can help students who are having an "artist block" plus its a nice break from doing art because doing art can be sometime stressful. This can help students who don't like doing art, so using this game they can " play with art" because the game is art itself, The game you are literally building art. A house you built in that game can be art because you created it using your imagination. There are many other games out their that can help us be creatives, like the Sims series.  We build a fantasy life that we want and its all uses creativity, All games use a part of your creativity. I think that why I like video games so much because it use so much of your imagination. It makes me feel like a kids again when I play.