Low Status Reflection

When you are in a school that has seven different second grade classrooms, you can’t help but to notice changes inside and outside the classroom. At the same time when you have students change classes based on their current math level, you would think that students in each classroom are homogeneous when it comes to status level. I am currently in a classroom that is teaching above grade level math, meaning that the second graders in that classrooms are learning material that third graders are learning. When it comes to status issues I can clearly see that my class has students that fall in a high and low status level position. Based on what we read on the chapters in smarter together low status is mainly a student that will not participate or will not engage much due to the fact that they may think that their ideas are not good enough. In the other hand a student that has high status will be one that participates pretty frequently and that will take the lead during group work. Going on with this, I have students that are mainly Hispanic that fall into the low status and students from other races that fall into the high …show more content…
The one thing that I notice with the tasks is that students are highly engage on them. These tasks are done in pairs or groups and I can see that low status students will pair up with other low status students and the same will happen with the high status students pairing up with another high status. The mathematical tasks are used to enhance the material that was taught as a whole class, but when I walk around and listen/see students working I cannot tell which one is low of high status because everyone seems to get the material and work that they need to be doing, but since they pair up with other student that perceive themselves the same way then they have no issues working