Everyone that I teach has divine potential and can achieve much greatness.
3 Nephi 27:27 "What manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say into you , even as I am."
What is my work as learner and teacher?
What is worth teaching?
How do I learn?
Upon what foundation are U.S public schools built?
What is the role of school in society?
To "Bring up children and apprentices in some honest lawful calling, labor, or employment,.... or some other trade profitable for themselves and the commonwealth," - Connecticut School Law
School are to help given children the start they need. This section from the Connecticut School Law for me shows that they valued the importance that knowledge(Education) can have in the future of our children .
Anything that helps children/people become productive members of society.
My job as a learner is to make connections between the things that I'm being taught and personal experiences that I have had.
My Job as a teacher is to help students realize that they can connect the things that they learn in a classroom into their own personal life.
I learn best by hands on practice
I am an artist that sees beauty in science.
I am motivated by my desire to help others
" respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 26
"There was no free school for girls," "a nine-year-old Jewish child had to answer questions a thirteen-year-old Gentile was hardly expected to understand." "Those who, by heroic efforts and transcendent good luck, successfully finished the course, found themselves against a new wall, if they wished to go on." -Mary Antin
Segregation might not be as extreme as this now but people not having access to the education they would like for whatever reason motivates me to help them in some way.
"as the inheritance of previous race activities." - John Dewey
Children/Students will all come from different backgrounds and will learn certain behavior because of that. Which is a good thing and we should use that to their benefit.
"We must also be able to project them into the future to see what their outcome and end will be." -John Dewey
"to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently." - John Dewey
We need to help make sure that our students when they not just leave school but when they leave our class are ready for whatever the world has to throw at them.
"it should take up and continue the activities with which the child is already familiar in the home." -John Dewey
School should be a comfortable place for children to be and help them be okay with other social interactions.
"as a place where certain information is to be given, where certain lessons are to be learned, or where certain habits are to be formed." -John Dewey
My experiences with schools in the US is just that. That we are only there because they have "important" things we need to learned that will "help" us later on in life.
As a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences." -John Dewey
"All instruction of man, is then only the Art of helping nature to develop in her own way." -Pestalozzi
