Matthew
Williams
English
1100
24
September 2015
Prof.
Young
Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden
Curriculum of Social Work
Jean Anyon’s position on education
is still learned in schools but not all of them. Many education departments have been changing
the way kids learn nowadays. Every year
they are changing the curriculum on subjects.
My educational experience was sometimes the same as Jean Anyon’s data in
the essay and sometimes different. I
went to a private elementary school when I was young. The school felt it was a like working class
to middle class. Just in the middle of both of those types of schools with a
hint of affluent profession school. When
we were taught lessons we would have to copy down the notes on the board. After the lesson the teacher handed out a
ditto on the lesson she taught. Most of
what I learned in elementary school was like this. If a person did not understand a problem on
the board, the student can ask questions to understand the problem. When we reached 4th and 5th
grade, we were allow to switch classrooms for different subjects once a day.
This opportunity allow us to have a better feeling for middle school since we
had to switch class every period. I went
to a public school for middle and high school.
The middle school was similar to the elementary school. We had to copy down the notes the teacher
told us to copy and if we wanted to take down our own notes we could do
that. I took a reading class during my
three years there. In 7th and
8th grade, we were told to write in a journal a couple days a week
for a grade. Sometimes the teacher would
provide a writing prompt to answer or we could make up our own. This was a good way to think about creative
writing. When we had to go to the bathroom we would need to take a pass and in
elementary school we did the same thing.
In high school learning was different.
In math class, if I did not understanding a problem. I could go up to
the teacher and ask him what I did wrong.
In my junior year, History was taught differently than the previous
years of the traditional teaching of history.
My teacher taught his students with flip learning. He made of the concept and it was a better
learning experience. Flip learning was
not having to take notes in class but having to watch a video of him talking
about a lesson and taking notes on the video.
The next day in class the students would have to use the notes and
concepts of the video lesson to complete a worksheet on the video lesson from
last night. If you don’t do the homework
for class, your grade for the class will reflect on the amount of homework you
have complete. Jean Anyon’s position does not holds merit today due to the changes in our curriculum.
