Essential Questions
What is worth teaching?
Doctrines vs. Principles
keep your personal beliefs aside?
Teach students that there is a higher being
Not inflicting beliefs, just stating facts
What parents are not teaching at home.
We must be careful to not take the role of a parent.
Students will learn important skills that the
parents may or may not be teaching at home.
Hard work=success
Universal rights and responsibilities
Goal of education: Growth
Students can only achieve what they work for
The principle of hard work, not a "given" life.
What is required to succeed
Prepare for tests
Things that will "stick"
Strategies for learning
Running a school store
Help teacher with an activity
Use surrounding resources
Lessons that apply to life after school
Budgeting
Filling out paperwork
Using your skills from school
Equality
They should be taught from an early age that everyone is equal, no one person is greater than another.
How do I learn?
Visual
Through senses
Hands-on activities
Activities leave a lasting memory
Teachers preparation
Provide entertaining ways of learning
Repitition
Rethink truths and idaeas
Establish a pattern/schedule of your activities and interests.
Make leisure time an educational opportunity
The more you learn, the more you can help
learn by study and by faith
God is a worthy source of knowledge
Learn to apply knowledge
Find your place and use that place to shape yourself and society.
From the students response to your teaching
Knowing is a result of experience
Experiential learning
Being attentive
Pay close attention
Show interest in what you are learning
How do I view those I teach?
Full of Potential
Some teachers do not share this view
Start with their needs in the classroom
They will open up to you if you show that
you care.
More likely to have success in your students learning.
Equal
Racism
Every student gets the same treatment.
Favoritism
No teachers pet.
No special treatment.
Bias
Same race, gender, class.
Capacity to learn
Learn, not work
Recognize individual capacities and differences and work with them.
If a student lacks in a certain category, work with them to be
at the same level as others and not call them out about it.
There will be those students that get on your nerves
and push your buttons but have patience and see them for their potential.
Children of God
We have His divine potential
Simply human beings
The opressed
Violence
Rebellion
Love
Dehumanize others and themselves
Other people are just things
Who am I and what motivates me?
A child of God
Success
The success of others
Seeing others succeed because they worked hard.
Doing what I love
Your job will not seem like a work if you love it and care for students
Equality
Opportunity for all
Fairness
No special treatment, just equality.
Seen for who they are, not their race or skin color
Quality
Good teaching
Students are getting the best education possible
Creating successful human beings who contribute because of their education
What is the role of school in society?
Influences a child's behavior
Children go to school because they have to
If they like it, they will excell
Some students enjoy school
Help students identify their interests and abilities
Everyone has the human right to go to school
We tend to take this for granted. It is important
that we understand that it is not free, it is because
of hardworking people that we receive this right.
Distinguish between education and school
What is the difference?
How are children learning and is it the best way?
"The American Dream"
A dream or reality
Depends what you make of it.
Working hard to succeed.
Right or privilege?
Those who are of other race or ethnicity than white would say they come here searching the American Dream.
Changes in society and living standards in today's world
require specific modifications to secondary education.
Teach about God?
Provide opinion
Acknowledge Him with the students
Do not inflict your beliefs on them
Receiving and Education
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as is available to them. They want it for the child's sake and for the nation's sake.
School's should increase in quantity and quality.
DACA and Dream Act
Upon what foundation are U.S. schools built?
With money in mind
Priviliges
Some only want money instead of a child's education
Go to further measures to deal with problems.
Provide an education
Provide best teachers
Provide extra-curricular activities
offer a diversity in learning experiences and social interactions
activities that students enjoy
Gives equal Opportunities
Allows low income families to receive an education
Social class and racial status is closely correlated
to the level of investment in education and the districts
overall success.
Gives people equal opportunities and rights
It hasn't always been this way. Plessy v. Ferguson
and Brown v. Board of Education.
Must be willing to change some practices to fit needs of students.
There is more need for social reform
than educational reform.
Discrimination
Ignorance of certain races
Jobs, teams, friends, opportunities
DACA/Dreamers
Special privilege based on race
Some students are far ahead in the game of life solely because of the better opportunities they have been given.
Take for Granted their opportunities.
Some see the things in life as a given,
and not something they have to work for.
Help build society
What is my work as a learner and a teacher?
Provide a learning environment
Safe
Dorothy's case; her teachers ignored her as well.
Do not put them in danger under any circumstances.
Comfortable to share thoughts
Teach what is required
Include personal opinions
Don't inflict your opinion on them
Allow students to choose their views
Further an education
Encourage, plan, question, and offer suggestions
Not an authoritarian figure, but a Cheerleader
Liberate, not dogmatize
Help students and yourself enjoy learning
Be steadfast and immovable
lead students in a direction of most worth
Create a fun environment with activities and games, not just textbooks
Encourage to follow dreams
Achieve success
See true potential
If you disagree with something, guide them to achieve goals for their success
Remember that students have agency to choose.
Do not interfere with what they want, guide them
to make the best decisions for their life.
Teach with a goal in sight
Know what you want the student to learn
Create a teaching style according to this goal
Tell students what they should know by the end of class/unit
Teach what is right, not necessarily what is in the books.
Accountability and responsibility
Duty to perform and Work hard for an education
Students have the responsibility to be proactive about their learning.