Race and intelligence

In Adam Braun’s memoir and life guide “The Promise of a Pencil”, the speaker relates his journey of creating Pencils of Promise and the lessons learned along the way. He employs the rhetorical technique of flashback in a way that is both elucidating and memorable, establishing mood of unwitting self-indulgence in a tone that is both austere and sophomoric. Any college worth its salt has a motto, something to aspire to. At FIU it’s “Hope, Knowledge, Opportunity”. While sounding great in…

I make it for a week or two and I feel as though I’m making progress. Then BAM, something gets in the way. It could be a huge project in school and my mind drifts away into a different place. My perseverance is gone, leaving me at the start of the race and, achievement past the finish line. I get stressed out, then mad at myself. I get mad at what could have been. However, this year it hit me, I shouldn't sit around and just wish I had flexibility, that’s not how it works. A genie isn't going…

The path I am on is paved with tile floors, and the lights above flicker in a way that reminds me of a school hallway. The path is seemingly endless, constantly branching, and is a mystery. Whenever it splits I am always presented with two choices: to go left, or to go right. The left path is always bright with sparkling floors and fresh air. The right path is much more foreboding. Most of the time, I can’t see more than a few feet in front of me and the air is heavy. I always try to go down the…

English 1303 was filled with many activities consisting of the writer 's toolbox, vocabulary logs, different rhetorical essays, timed writings, presentations, and, much more. I vividly remember the assignment that was introduced to us as the “cookie rubric.” Our assignment was to create a rubric based off the characteristics, texture, appearance, taste, and smell of cookie. It was honestly one of the most constructive assignments I have done, due to the fact that I had to be so precise with each…

1. Pretend you are a director of a preschool program. Write 1-2 paragraphs describing which of the 16 elements in a Developmentally Appropriate Learning Environment would be the easiest to create and why; which would be the most challenging and why? p. 256 As a director of a preschool program, the easiest to create in one of the elements in a Developmentally Appropriate Learning Environment is to provide access to enough toys and materials. It is important as a director to promote safe care…

Different Educational Conversations Education takes many different forms. It does not always have to involve an academic setting with a person who takes the role of a dominant teacher passing on known information to students that are not knowledgeable in the subject. Education also take place in a peer-to-peer conversation, in other words among those with equal amounts of knowledge who exchange ideas and/or perspectives. Education, in my theory, is when people become present in each other’s…

How are curriculum-based measurement, performance assessment, and portfolio assessments similar? How are they different? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How might you adapt each of them for students with special needs? Curriculum-based measurement, performance assessment, and portfolio assessments all have similarities and differences as well as strengths and weaknesses. First, curriculum-based measurement is developed to measure or monitor student learning progress. They “could include…

Discussion 4: Strategies – Six Thinking Hats Explanation of the theory Using six thinking hats strategy is a simple, effective parallel thinking process that helps people to be more productive, focused, and mindfully involved. Essentially, by utilizing these caps, we will have the capacity to assist thinking process of the students. The strategy was published by Edward de Bono in 1985 as a conceptual method for effective team meetings, problem solving, decision making and evaluation. In other…

they can't change no matter how hard they try. Charlie Gordon is a full grown man with an IQ of 68 and the only thing he wants is to be smart, but with a score like Charlie's you would be considered mentally inadequate. Charlie cannot change his intelligence because of mental restrictions until he is offered a surgery that can triple his IQ, and when he hears about the opportunity he jumps on it, he is very eager to begin his transformation into becoming smart.There for Charlie should take the…

My path to acquiring intelligence is a testament that disproves the general belief that smart people are innately intelligent. Indeed, there are people who see information once and are able to recall it verbatim, but that is not the case for everyone, not even Asians. Contrary to popular belief, it is not just “brains” that aid a person in academic education. In order to succeed, a person needs have unwavering determination. My life’s story is all about determination, although my academic…