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