HW 54

ISFJ - "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

I feel this "personality test" was another way to really think about where your POV stands with various topics. Rather than use this to have other people find out who you are, it gives OURSELVES the opportunity to actually find out stuff about ourselves we don't think about on a daily basis. Sure, some topics like social levels I can answer the same usually, but other questions got me thinking about where I stand with it.

However, I honestly don't think there's a survey out there that can truly be 100% accurate. You choose who you want to be in life, period. No test should be able to tell you who you are and you didn't realize it until after. I think what's interesting about these surveys is different peoples perceptions of how people act based on questions being answered.

HW 53 - Survey Analysis

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This survey is pretty interesting and made me think about the same topics I discussed in HW 52. Like all surveys, this one made me really think about the questions asked and even more about the topics they were based around. For example, when asked about my family life, I was able to answer the question while having more of an appreciation of how my family life is compared to other people who unfortunately might have answered the questions in a lower way.

In HW 52, I did discuss how good it is that we all have the ability to think about certain Life aspects and use our minds to crate different possible explanations. These kinds of surveys better benefit those abilities and may even expand our mindsets since there are more specific questions.

HW 52 - Initial Theories of Human Relationships

Asking yourself "What is the right way to Live?" is just another one of those questions where although there is no exact answer, its interesting to spend periods of time thinking about. I've always believed, based on how I grew up in a religious aspect, that all questions would be answered only when you die. But until then, all you could do is wonder. However, something that is great about life is that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, whether others want to accept your ideas as a possibility or not. As long as you have a brain, you could think in any way you choose.

Thinking specifically about human relationships, i've grown up and found myself acting differently towards different people in my life. I don't consider this as myself being a fake person, I think just like the question, the way you act can't be traced back to one simple explanation, but instead it is just the way it is because......it is. We were all born with many, different emotions, so in a way, these emotions are all used, but not directly to all the same people. You have family, good friends, regular friends, classmates, a girl/boy friend, the list goes on and on. It's one of those things where I guess it just depends on the person you are reacting to in which you would act. For example, I usually goof off with my friends while I may tone myself down around family. Specifically focusing on family, type way I act with them is what i consider my first "give off" of emotion because my family were the people around me before any outsiders who are currently apart of my life today. In general, the majority of people are interested in change, so thinking back to when I got into school and it's environment, my human instincts simply saw this as a golden opportunity to give off new emotions and create new human relationships that differ from the ones I lived off of with my family for the beginning of my life.

This also happens when you meet that special person in a romantic level. It's one thing to notice the difference of relationships between family and friends, but the feelings you get when you have interest in one particular person is just so crazy it could sometimes be indescribable. Rather than think about what your brain is feeling, think about what happens to your body when you become affiliated with those kind of moods. You may have little butterflies in your stomach, feel light headed (in a good way), etc. When you think about this, you're not forcing yourself to feel these feelings...you just do. Because of this, whatever point of view you have about Life, whether it be Science alone or a God, this could've been a creation that was added along with the universe, who says they can truly know?

It's great to be able to think about and create possible explanations in your head, but why think hard all the time? There are times in general when people have problems thinking too hard about a given subject. Just like Life itself, its fun to think about for a set amount of time from time to time, but in the end, you just sit back and accept the existence of everything. Like I said earlier, i personally believe that you will find out the answers to all of those big, universal questions only when you die. People may ask "How do you know that?", and to tell the truth, i DON'T. But just like human relationships, people have a right to think about why and how life was created, because someway, somehow...that ability was included in the package the second we were all born into this world.

HW 51

School can be looked at than more than just an "educational palace" that we spend our time in from 9 AM to 3 PM. When asked either by yourself or someone else, people tend to lose thought on what school actually is. Because of this, School, which becomes apart of our daily lives at a young age, is know being second guessed by the majority of students. rather than being looked at as an opportunity to gain knowledge for the future, school is often compared to jail and a place that nobody wants to be.

Now that school's true meaning is often looked at as the enemy, I now find myself questioning what is the true point of sitting in multiple classrooms doing nothing but listening to the "master" up front, taking notes on his/her wisdom, and keeping my mouth shut the majority of the time, unless I want to hear the great words of the "master" a second time. I'll admit that there might be a chance that school's true meaning is to help prepare students for their futures, but if that IS true, I most definitely missed it.

Unless one would like to be a teacher, what's the point of coming to school? I picture myself involved in some form of athletics, whether it means being an athlete or in another field still involving sports....or even BOTH. Since this is my personal case, why is it that I can't go for these dreams of mine unless I'm able to understand factors quadratic functions or finding the molarity of a substance? To me, this is just unfair.

As much as the majority of school time is unfair, there are some good things that come out of it. Out of all my classes, i find Internship class to be the most helpful for my future after high school. While it doesn't concentrate on my specific career interests, it DOES talk about important factors of life such as ;earning how to deal with budgets, how to nail an interview for a job, basically stuff that actually matter if one would like to be successful in his/her life.If all classes were more like this, then maybe a lot of students wouldn't have to unrelunctantly force themselves out of bed every school morning. Just maybe, they'd be willing to receive some guidance for when they go out into the world without mommy and daddy no longer being behind them.

In my opinion, College is when you start your life. You choose the classes you want, which teaches the topics you're interested in, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you're in a good position in this point of your life. To better suit their student's love of education, maybe grade schools should try to be more opened up with a variety of classes, giving them more options. As much as teachers and parents may disagree with it, students deserve a right to have options in what they are taught. It allows them to potentially discover hidden talent, the same talents that will make them successful in their jobs and careers which will define their place in their society, and in the world. That may seem too far out and sound crazy to a lot of people, but that's only because school isn't in the format that it should be. There's a saying that states "Change is Good", whether or not people agree with it or not, let's give change a try and see just how far it would be able to take us.

HW 50

After reading the article, i could definitely say that i have the same view of school as Gatto does. Basically, he views schools as somewhat of a blockage for students to really push themselves and being able to discover their full potential. Because school doesn't necessarily work for the favor of the student's interests, students come to school not really caring about what is offered and instead just waste their time, although it's NOT completely their fault. If you're not interested in something, you're not interested in it, period. You can't shove a topic into someone's mind and expect to force them to like it (unless they are weak minded, but that isn't everyone).

One of Gatto's "rules" states that students should "stay in the class where they belong", This says a lot to me. Gatto, like me, believes that students should be in classrooms in which the topic is appealing to them, like they actually WANT to listen rather than just sit there and wait for the time to pass them by. It almost strikes me that some adults agree with the same educational beliefs as students.

I failed Spanish class last year and that cost me a credit. My aunt couldn't believe spanish class, a class that she believed should be an elective, was costing me a grade. After talking for a while, she had the same beliefs as read in Gatto's "6 Lessons", which basically sum up that students deserve a say in what they are taught for the sake of taking what they learn and keeping it with them for the future, rather than forgetting 4 years worth of classes a month after graduating.

HW 49

I believe my class' teacher/student savior video was a good POV more towards both sides of the classroom. There's the teacher, who is trying to do his job and try to contain control of the classroom, then theres the students, whp not only dont care about school, but have some reasons behind it (such as what was seen in the movie "Freedom Writers").

My role was that of the cameraman for the second half of the movie. While behind the camera, i was able to get an outsider's perspective on the whole teacher and student relationship in the classroom. Also, in the first half of the movie, I was one of the main characters. My role was the victim of bullying, which gave me an inside look of what a student in that POV goes through, both physically and mentally, which can connect to a reason as to why some students may dislike school, thus needing a savior in the teacher.

Overall, i feel like once again, our movie was a great way to show yet another view on what the status is in a general classroom. Although not ALL classes were as bad as we were acting for the video, is still gives oppurtuntity to think and discuss about the deeper depths on what school is about, what the POVs are, etc.

Although it was a good video, I think it would be more beneficial for all outside viewers to get more of a POV from the teacher, only because most movies out concentrate more on fixing the students. How about if STUDENTS help TEACHERS?

HW 48 - Treatment for Savior/Teacher Movie

In this video, there should be something happening that is the complete opposite of what we saw in multiple videos in class. Rather than have the old, traditional student learns from teacher plot, why not reverse it and have a teacher learns from their students?

Believe it or not, there has to be at least one teacher out there who's at the point of his/her life where the only reason why they come to work is because of the paycheck. They are just mentally drained and have no more inspiration to teach willingly. However, there are students who are being taught by this teacher who actually want to learn something. So instead of having the teacher try and change the perspective of education of the students, in this video, the students will help pull the teacher out of the dark, boring hole that the teacher has fell in.

I feel this is a good idea because over the last few weeks, we have seen multiple, different POVs, but all of them were through the eyes of the teacher. So now, its the students turns. That way, maybe the viewer of all the movies can have a steady, clear vision of what the relationship is between teachers and students.

So considering what the teachers have done for the students in the videos, this self made video could be looked at as somewhat a thank you or a sign of appreciation from the students to the figure of the teacher that has helped the figure of the students in the past.