Course essential questions
How do I view those I teach?
People who want to grow even if they don't know it
They will rise to the challenge presented them
There is a limit to what they can do
Limitless potential if properly "cultivated?"
Stress can get to be too much and can harm
their self esteem and potential problems.
The teacher is more important than the student and should impose his/her own will on them.
They are full of potential that needs to be explored.
Those I teach are people with unique backgrounds, experiences and histories.
Though they have not had as much experience as the teachers.
Who am I and what motivates me?
Challenges
What is rigor and how much do we need?
New Information
Homework
What is the purpose behind the homework?
Practicing for fluidity
Busy Work
How do I tell if it is just busy work?
Expectations
Love
Fear
I am a child of God.
What is the role of School in society?
To add on to the learning done in the home
TO babysit the students
To prepare students for college
To prepare students for a job
To teach students to love learning
What is my work as learner and teacher?
You must make a choice and take a stance. Being "luke warm" is no good.
Grading and assessing the knowledge that the students have
Do I grade performance, behavior, or knowledge?
Knowledge
How do I assess the knowledge
of a student?
Behavior
What kind of behaviors could we grade?
Participation
Working at doing the best that you can
Who am I to judge their potential vs their actual.
How do I know if they're trying?
Should we expect the same participation
from every student we have?
Professionalism
Interaction with others
I fell like students should learn how to behave from the parents. I can teach this as well, but I should not grade them on it.
Performance
Comparative to everyone else
Culmination of progress
A teacher should be working alongside the students
and continue to learn.
What is worth teaching?
Whatever Benefits the Child
If something interests the child that could
lead them to a love of learning but is of no
immediate benefit Is it the right time?
How do I decide what benefits the child?
Anything that leads to a love of learning
Anything that interests the child
Do I let the child decide their interests,
or do I interest the Child?
How can I help the child be interested?
How do I learn?
Being given instructions on how to study something
that interests me.
Theory/textbook learning
Through practical experience
Upon what foundations are US public schools built?
Standardization
Everyone having education in common.
Curriculum.
