Ruby Payne Reaction

Understanding & working with students & adults from poverty:
I never really dwelled upon this subject before but after reading this it does make a lot of sense to me. It does not provide a complete answer, in my opinion, as to why these children have trouble but it is a big part of it. The part that stood out the most to me was the end, about how relationships are key. Since almost everyone goes through the school system and is in contact with teachers, we have the best chance to make an impace on their lives.

Building learning structures inside the head:
I'm not sure I understood the majority of the information in this section, it seemed very technical, but I did get the gist of it, giving kids the tools to learn is better the ncramming their heads full of facts. I completely agree with this sentiment, we will not amke it anywhere if we have kids who are trying to cram facts and memorize concepts rather then we as teachers are not doing our jobs. In my opinion is isn't enough to simply know something, you need to know why it's important to know because if it isn't worth rememberig then whats the point?

Working with students from poverty: Discipline:
I liked this particular section a lot because I always wondered how I woas going to keep control of my own class and this section helped explain that a bit. The analogy of the rules of a video game to the rules of the school put in in perspective for me as well because I'm a huge video games fan and I could relate to that. I always knew that your tone of voice impacts a conversation and someones perception of what you're saying a lot, but labeling them parent, child, and adult voices made it easier for me to understand which tone would give which reaction.

Campuswide interventions that improve student achievement:
What jumped out at me in this section are the many ways in which there are to measure a students progress. I particularly liked the rubric because I thought it was easy tounderstand andwould be easy to use as well but still give good information about the student.A student could be placed on their performance anwhere from one side of the spectrum to the other and anwhere in between. Especially being a new teacher myself ,I think that these are valuable tools to help me improve not only my students performance but my own as well.