site placement connections

While in my site placement I have few significant situations that drew me to a writing that have been read in the class yet there were the few.  One author that I can relate to through my experience is Delpit and her codes of power.  OF course my class has rules  that the students are expected to follow as well as the expectation for the students to listen o the teacher and follow he given directions without doubt.  There are also more subtle codes of power as the class has each student trusted with a specific task around the class, such as door holder or paper collector, there are clearly jobs that students want more than others and they also might see certain tasks as more important than others.  Another example of a concept I can connect my site placement to is SCWAAMP.  I am placed in a second grade classroom, the students in my class are just starting to get old enough to compare what they have to others and feel embarrassed or upset if they don't equally compare to another.  I have also noticed that second grade is the grade in which students seem to start conforming to fit the idea of a “normal” kid and try not to be seen as different.  I have also noticed that some of the students may have realized that some of their fellow students may have learning handicaps and in some cases they are helpful to the student yet other times they can make fun of the handicapped student if they provide an incorrect answer.  I feel as though I can also relate to August and the idea that learning is achieved at its highest form when the student feels safe in their surroundings as well as trying to reduce the marginalization of certain groups of students.  In this case the marginalization I witnessed was that of the students who needed extra help with reading,pronounciation and overall don't process as fast as their fellow students.  I witnessed such students try to answer and whilst they were thinking and taking their extra time needed to answer the question or complete the assigned task, and another student will interrupt and provide the answer as they are tired of waiting or they start pressuring the student answering for taking so long and make comments about how their lack of intelligence not knowing any better as a kid.  This interaction can lead to the “slow” students to sop participating as they do not want to get pressured or made fun of.