The video "The US schools to prisons pipeline" stood out to me because a map was shown and in the map there was a display of how the high school was right across the street from a prison and a juvenile detention center, to me that was shocking. As a future teacher that's one of the things that educators should think about, why have schools around prisons period. We are suppose to help students become better adults not discourage them. By having prisons around schools I think is unnecessary, like there's no benefits, why not build a field where students can play sports, and have events for schools? In this video they also mentioned that if the principal caught you with a hat on several times it will lead to suspension, that is ridiculous we should not pay attention to small things, and look at bigger issues within the school. I'm not saying that hats is not a form of disrespect but take the consequence down a notch suspension is not needed, maybe detention for the whole day or something but in my opinion suspension is overboard, and it's not like it  would not happen again  because in my high school it was prohibited to have hats on, and if a hat was seen on your head the principal would take it off, but the students did not care they would have it on and bring it to school anyway.
     In the video of "Colorado's schools" I think they also have exaggerated responses because a student for writing in a bathroom stall was taken to jail, like really that is not necessary. Again I'm certainly not saying its okay to do that but going to jail shouldn't be the solution. And like one of the men on the video said the student wont learn from his mistakes because he went to jail, he will just be mad at the police. 

My first tutoring session

      As we were walking to the class I was really nervous about how was I going to keep the conversation going and I was worried about what the students would think about me as a tutor because i want to be helpful to them so they will be able to succeed and want my help. When I was assigned the students I was happy but nervous at the same time but than I told myself that I have to maintain good body language and come out as friendly and helpful so they won't react shy or nervous. Before I sat down with the students I introduced myself and shook their hands, and asked their names, I realized they were both friendly and I became less anxious and some nervousness went away (although I was still nervous).  The first thing I asked about was their topic, and after I asked them if they had a copy of the given assignment, student J let me borrow hers, and I read it and got a better understanding of what direction they should be going. The focus of the assignment was whether they thought that biculturism is a confusion or was it positives/strengths. When I was finished reading, I asked them to tell me what were the readings about that they read in class in which they have to connect to the paper, and I asked both to see the different ideas they both got from the texts. I asked them both what side they were on they were both on the same page they had written a little about both in bullet points. I asked for them to read it out loud to me, of course one at a time, to get an insight of what should I be suggesting for each students and their needs, while one student was reading I was taking notes on what was her view, and I asked the other to expand on her ideas, I did this for both students.   
      After that, I asked them both to choose three ideas that they feel most strongly about, and than I asked them to expand the three ideas into more of a paragraph form. Student J, did it but not completely, I did not take it offensively because maybe she has her own way of organizing herself when it comes to writing. Student A was a little lost, but I helped her with the argument that she wanted to make in her paper. Towards the end of the session, we got a little off topic but I found a way to connect it to their paper. Although I was really nervous and didn't know what to do, I think by talking and  all three of us communicating, and suggesting opinions it was not bad at all. Before I left they both told me "thank you for helping me, you were such a big help, I did not know I was going to get this far", and it felt good hearing those words.

My first tutoring observation

When he first introduced himself he started off by saying "what can i help you with today" and i think that he should of taken the time to actually introduce himself because its like hes rushing like let me help you and get finished with this session. he did not read over the essay first he just went straight to the professors comments to analyze what the professor was looking for, and what the student needed more help in.Something that I personally did not like was that he was paying attention to LOC'S since the beginning of the session he didn't even ask her what her paper was about. But than he started to help her with organization which is more of a HOC which I was glad to see because i was getting bored of listening to him correcting her sentences. Personally I agree with Lauren I think that I was sitting way to close to them, and I noticed the student begin to feel uncomfortable. She was understanding what he was explaining to her, which is good and he would always ask her if what he suggested made sense to her and i think that's an important question to ask because if a student does not understand what you are saying the session is already a failure. During the middle of the session he THAN asked what was her thesis, something that should have been established in the beginning. His behavior and body language at the beginning he looked helpful and sounded like he wanted to do his best to help her but after a while he began to put his hand on his face, like his head leaning on his hand while the student was asking him some questions and I thought that was rude, and it looked as if he was not interested. He was also yawning constantly that was also rude and didn't even say excuse me, my first experience was not the best but I do hope the second would be better.

hello my name is jarisel and in my ENG 220 class we watched a couple of videos
What is pedagogy? In my opinion pedagogy is the practice of teaching, and how you as a person view education. Pedagogy explains how a subject is presented, and as a teacher evaluating yourself to see if the process is working correctly.
          Ken Robinson's video he talks about how everyone is born a genius but the education system sucks it out of you. As a future teacher i do think that education does not allow you to pursue what you really want to do in life i thought that when i went to high school that was the place i would find myself to what i would want to become in the future and that didn't go as planned, high schools just prepare you before you to become a college student. I had NO type of extracurricular activities at my high school one of the main reasons why i wanted to get out of that place, they didn't have activities that you will enjoy and get you motivated. Another point that Ken spoke about was "creativity is as important as literacy, we should treat it the same" i also agree with him in that point, when I was observing at a charter school they did not have art class because they did not have the money for it , but I think that they should include art classes because it gives the student the ability to get creative and have fun. Another important point that he spoke upon was that all education are the same, they introduce all subjects math,science, social studies, etc and leave music and dance class out as if its not important, when your a child you might have often have heard a saying that goes like this "you cannot study music because you wont become an artist" or "you have to go to school because you wont become a dancer" and these are the type of things that kids don't want to listen to, and that's when the interest in school decreases. I know kids that say I want to become an actor but coming to school is a must, why is it a must because " i wont get anywhere with that career" and I think its important to follow your dreams and not just become professional to HAVE a job, one of my favorite quotes are "if you don't build your dream someone will hire you to build theirs" -Tony Gaskins.