2. TheCultureoftheSchool
● In community service and intramural
sports
● fine arts may have a definite place on
the curriculum
● Internet or Wi-Fi usage.
● student government and school
newspaper
3. EducationinSchool
- carried on in relatively
formal ways. Therefore
students are evaluated
and labeled -
sometimes mislabeled
4. ConformityinClass
● Students are told when and where to sit, when
to stand, how to walk through hallways, when
they can have their lunch in the cafeteria, and
when how to line up and exit the school at the
end of the day.
● Teacher controlling the behavior of students.
● Grades can be used as an instrument for
controlling behavior in class.
5. SociologyinTeaching-ConformityinClass
● Contest between adult and youth culture,
in which the teacher, in order to protect
his authority, had to win.
● Useful learning experience for students.
● Children acquire great dexterity in
exhibiting conventional and expected
ways to form attention to school work.
6. CopingandCaring
Ineffective or hostile teachers
can change a child’s behavior in
a matter of weeks through
comments, gestures and other
body language, turning
motivated to unmotivated
students that exhibits
frustrations, temper tantrums
and no longer likes going to
school.
7. SociologyinTeaching-CopingandCaring
● Grades basically create
WINNERS and LOSERS.
● In the usual, competitive
reward structure, the
probability of a student
receiving an award is
negatively related to
probability of another student
receiving a reward.
8. WHAT OF LEARNING,
rather than WHY
- Schools must bring the
sense of purpose to
learning and create
conditions that students
can tap in their own
motivation
NO
GRADES,
NO
LABELS
9. Cultureofthe
Classroom
According to Jackson, life in classrooms is dull. It is a place “in
which yawns are stifled and initials scratched on desktops,
where milk money is collected and recess lines are formed.
10. FactorsthataffectClassroomInteraction
Peer Group
➔ affords young people many important
learning experiences: how to interact with
others and how to achieve status in a circle of
friends.
◆ They can learned the true meaning of
fairness, cooperation, equality
communicating and helping each other,
and working as a group to achieve specific
(in this case, academic) goals in a peer
setting.
11. FactorsthataffectClassroomInteraction
Peer Culture and the School
➔ Students are brought together by an
accident of birth, residence and academic
ability rather than by choice.
◆ The classroom is the place where
children and youths must learn to get
along with peers and learn the
elements of socialization and
democracy.
12. FactorsthataffectClassroomInteraction
Peer and Racial Groups
➔ All the old legacies of separate and unequal in the United
States.
◆ This preference, or attitude, is referred to as cultural
inversion—a tendency for minorities who feel at odds
with the larger society to regard certain attitudes, norms,
and events as inappropriate for them because these are
representative of the dominant culture of White
Americans. (solution - need to understand, respect, and
get along with people)
13. FactorsthataffectClassroomInteraction
Social Class and Academic Achievement
➔ Poor students typically lack of
exposure to early literacy skills and
rich experiences in the home and in
their community, undermining their
ability to develop what some scholars
referred to as INFORMATION
CAPITAL.
14. FactorsthataffectClassroomInteraction
Social Class and Academic Achievement
➔ Researchers believe the key is to focus on
enhancing opportunities rather than merely
closing achievement gaps. This means improving
the quality and consistency of instruction and
other learning experiences provided to students,
based on sound research evidence. (focus on
quality programs and instruction)
15. FactorsthataffectClassroomInteraction
Global Development
➔ Only through education will the nation develop a
technologically savvy and innovative workforce.
◆ STEM subjects like math, which acts as a
gateway to technological literacy, higher
education, and a scientifically and
technologically sophisticated workforce
16. References
● Curriculum-Foundations-Principles-and-Issues.pdf
● What is Classroom Management? – Classroom
Management (palomar.edu)
● 17 Early Literacy Skills and How to Build Them -
Empowered Parents
● (3178) CDV601 Social Foundations of Curriculum by
Balangao and Vargas - YouTube
