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