7 Essential Questions
How do I view those I teach?
Every child is worth teaching and are individual and love children of God
Jane Addams
Who is worth teaching?
ALL men, women and children
People of every race, of every background and every station in life
Particularly women and children who had been denied the opportunity
How do I learn
Bednar
Knowledge
Facts
Information
Abilities attained through
experience or education
Spiritual Knowledge
Principle of Salvation
Necessary to life and godliness
Does away with darkness
Cornerstones of blessings
Dilligence
Foundation
Create a home
that encourages understanding
knowledge
Create spiritual environment
Invite the Spirit
Facilitate and assist spiritual learning
2 Nephi 33: 1, 2
Unto Vs. Into
Invite to Act
Understanding
Related to the heart
Knowledge that you
understand in your heart
Must teach
children to
understand
Intelligence
Righteous application of knowledge
and understanding in action and judgement
Knowing is not understanding
understanding is not intelligence
Obedience
Capstone
Cornerstone
What's my Work as a
Learner
What is the role of the student?
Perry
Learn to learn
Be able to explain what they have learned to their parents and apply to themselves
Teacher
Jane Addams
Give equal opportunity to all children
Advocate for all children
Who am I?
What Motivates me?
Jane Addams
Advocate
Friend
Teacher
Woman
What is the role of school in society?
What is the role of the community?
Perry
Be supportive and provide opportunity for a school and for teachers to be trained
Advocate for children who have no one else to turn to and make them the top priority
Jane Addams
Teach students to be good citizens and to give back to the world
On What foundation is public School built?
To give every person the opportunity to grow
What's worth teaching?
Perry
Every child
no matter their
station in life
Men and Women
What's worth learning?
Perry
Poetry, fiction, oratory and taste
Anything to elevate the excitement of education
Whatever is good, wise and lovely
The exercise of the noblest powers of intellect and feeling
Training children to be truthful and honest
Health
Jane Addams
How to be a good citizen
The Capture
Steadfast and Immovable
Central Message
(What's the Main Idea?)
Remain steady and firm in turbulent times
Purpose (why?)
To learn to stand firm
in the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Values
What does the author value?
Assumptions (where does the author stand or believe?)
The words of the Prophets
The Holy Spirit
Love of God
Family
Validation
How has the author supported
the central message/ application (how can the information be used?)
Give us questions to ponder and instruction
What does it mean to be steadfast and immovable?
Cannot be moved
Captain Moroni
Stripling Warriors
Tortoise in the Tortoise and the Hare
How do we become steadfast and immovable?
Built upon a strong foundation
Strengthen testimony
What blessings are associated with being a steadfast and immovable disciple of the Savior?
Become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable?
Built upon a strong foundation
Strengthen testimony
What blessings are associated
with being a steadfast and immovable disciple of the Savior
Become more spiritually mature and
increasingly steadfast and immovable
Become less prone to zealous and exaggerated spurts of spirituality followed
by extended periods of slackness
Helping children who need advocates
Making society better
Becoming an empowering person
Allow for children to have an opportunity to learn
No child labor
Game of Life
A true history that doesn't
brush over the hard things
in the country
Responsibility to the community
You have the power
to change the world.
Be careful with this
power, but do not squander
it
Treat everyone the way
you want to be treated
and realize that everyone
is dealing with hard things
Game of Life
Keep the children safe
and help them feel valued
in their community
Realize that not all education happens
in the classroom, but a lot of it will happen
on the streets of their home town
Allow and encourage all children to have access to an education
Game of Life
A white woman, and as such I have privilege that I need to use to help my students who do not have the same privileges
An advocate for all equality. Always
Game of Life
As Children of God
who are worthy and loved
and deserve an education
The future of our country -
of our world
The most powerful group of people
Learn as much as I possibly can
about different cultures and keep
an open mind at all times
Game of Life
Keep an open mind
and be willing to learn
about the difficult subjects
and accept that people
have different advantages
Game of Life
Seek knowledge
Seek opportunites to learn
and to open my mind further
Chase knowledge and
more importantly - understanding
Realism and Essentialism
Who should teach?
Someone in the community
Should be paid by the community
Realism and Essentialism
The Gospel
Two kinds of Sciences
Natural Light of Reason Sciences
Higher Science
Science of God
Geometry, arithmetic, etc.
Realism and Essentialism
The Gospel
Realism and Essentialism
Pay the teachers
Appoint the teachers
Problem Posing
Able to learn and teach their peers
Banking
There to learn from teacher
Pedagogy of the Opressed
John Dewey
We must prepare children for their world
John Dewey
Children - who have a need to learn more than just reading, writing and arithmatic to further their personal education
Show passion towards specific content area
Ingenuity, patience, physical endurance
Kierkegaard
Idea that where the crowd is there lies the truth is false
To be a man is akin to deity
Wherever there is a
crowd there is untruth
text to text - Aldous Huxley
Herd Mentality
Virtue and intelligence belong to human beings as individuals freely associating with other individuals in small groups. So do sin and stupidity. But the subhuman mindlessness to which the demagogue makes his appeal, the moral imbecility on which he relies when he goads his victims into action, are characteristic not of men and women as individuals but of men and women in masses. Mindlessness and moral idiocy are not characteristically human attributes; they are symptoms of herd-poisoning
Washington
Learner
Create an environment where everyone can learn, respect your education, sacrifice and work hard to help yourself become who you want to be
Teacher
Create an environment where anyone can learn, promote equality and equity, make sure that everyone is safe and taken care of
Dubois
Accept nothing less than anyone else,
take what you deserve, be unafraid, be
bold - fight for equality
Role as a teacher
Help your students take back their education, fight for them, advocate for them
Washington
In a peaceful environment
Dubois
Through Action
Washington
Patience, acceptance, perseverance through hardships, team work and tolerance
To be accepting of other cultures and to understand the impact allies have on minorities
Dubois
Hard work, grit, strength, independence, pride in heritage and self, self defence
Rising above your situation, independence, pride, self discipline
Washington
Allies, equality of education
Washington
Create respectful citizens and help everyone come closer to equality and acceptance
Help the students learn and help all the schools while realizing everything they gain from the schools
Dubois
Building independent individuals and the future of the nation
Not holding anyone back from taking what they deserve in terms of their education
School Episode 3
Make sure all children have the same opportunities
Provide up to date information and protection
get to know each student individually
give them the best opportunities available
School Episode 3
Equality
History
we need to make sure that we teach the good, the bad and the ugly of history and not "white wash" it or erase the struggles of people who had to fight just to receive what was already promised to them
School Episode 3
Uphold the law, and challenge it when necessary
Create equal opportunities for all children and leave no one out of the pla