Blog Post #5

Blog Post #5

 In the many classrooms I have been in throughout the year I have noticed the ways in which history has positively affected the classroom. For example, today the classrooms I have been in are not segregated. All students are allowed and welcomed in to the classroom, no matter what color skin they have. This supports the Brown vs. Board of Education Act which was established in 1954 which stated segregated schools was unconstitutional. In many ways I have also seen how Sputnik, the satellite has effected classrooms. This satellite has changed the way students learn science and has reignited the spark and interest elementary kids have in science. Many classrooms now offer STEM a program which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. In my classrooms, I have specifically seen support for English learners as well. One student that I was able to work with barely spoke English and Spanish was her first language. When I asked the teacher what this student should be doing she encouraged the student to write in her first language, so she could be comfortable in her classroom. When I went up to tell the student her task she smiled at me and said thank you. This is a huge step in education because we have evolved to have multiple cultures in our classrooms and multiple people who have just come to America. There is a large support for these learners though, which I see as an amazing step. This was a possibilty due to the Bilingual Act of 1968 and 1974  and VI Civil Rights Act that permitted no discrimination in education and funding for children to be able to learn still if English was not  their first language.