Thoughts and beliefs

Questions?

How can I teach in regards to every kind of Child?

How can I make a difference?

Why is education such a scary idea?

Doctrine

We are children of God

The Plan of Salvation

Faith in Christ

The Resurrection and Judgement

Scriptures

Matthew 18:21, Give yourself to the Lord

Ether 12:6, Christ gives faith

"Love God with all your might, mind and strength"

Ether 12:27, Weaknesses can become strengths through the atonement

1 Nephi 3:7, God does not give any trial we cannot overcome

Mathew 5:14-16, there is more out there

Jacob 3:2, feast upon the pleasing word of God and His love

Tool

Tell the Children I love them

Pray for the Sprit and for your students

Always think of Christ

allow the students to help each other

Failure is a way to succeed

Laws

common core: a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade.

ESSA: The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the nation's main education law for all public schools. The law holds schools accountable for how students learn and achieve.

No Child Left Behind Act: a federal law that provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress.

8 Essential Questions

What is worth teaching?

Who am I and what motivates me?

How do I view and magnify those I teach?

What is my work as a learner and a teacher?

How do I learn?

Upon what foundation are U.S schools built?

What is the role of school in society?

What is the role of learning and teaching in the home?

Principle

creativity

patience

love

agency

Integrity

Harmony

failure

impressions

confidence

Curiosity

Connection

Wonderment

Positivity

Growth

Disagreements

Beecher's idea that only woman should be teachers

Agreements

its not about us, its about the children

Anyone can teach as long as you are motivated and hard working

Sometimes we set limits to people because we think we know what they are capable of, but any person is capable of anything

Early childhood development-Comenius

Keep preserving and the lord will provide!

Fear doesn't come from God

Hard times can be overcome with a Positive attitude

Learn to teach

Listen in order to be listened to

Definitions

metaphysics: study of reality, its origin and its structure

Epistemology: Study of knowledge

Axiology: Study of nature or value

Logic: Reasonning according to strict principles of validity

Master Teacher

Teach with Charity, the Pure love of Christ

Forgiveness

Always gives second chances

Desires to see others succeed

Willing to explain again, again and again

Look to learn from those you teach

Always follow the Spirit

He is a perfect listener

doctrine is red, Questions are yellow, principles are orange, the 8 questions are pink, laws are blue, tools are green, and theories are purple, disagreements are dark red, agreements are dark blue, scriptures are grey, jane Addams is dark blue, definitions are dark green

My Classroom

what will I do?

know the rules

Positively Encourage

Love them as if they are my own

Make them feel comfortable

Theories

Realism: The attitude of dealing with whatever situation is given to you

Metaphysics: Everything exists independently

Epistemology of Realism: What you know about an object exists independently of your mind.

Axiology of Realism: the study of value

Educational Giants of Realism: Kenneth Neal Waltz, encouraged the children to ask and to understand on a scientific level

Purpose of School: Foundation of reasoning, educators encourage the children to draw their observations from the world around them. Learn from the world

Curriculum in Realism: Students are encouraged to learn through experience, through field trips and hands on activities

Pedagogy Realism: A synonym for teaching. It also has to do with the art of learning

Nature of the learner in Realism: to give the learner knowledge and understanding of human society, human nature, motives and institutions. The student is encouraged to understand his existence in related to the world around him.

Role of the Teacher in Realism: focus on teaching problem solving through scientific method

Plato's ideas

There is always more to learn

Learning is uncomfortable

Learn from those learning

Neo Thomism: Existence proceeds essence (We exist but we don't have to)

Epistomology: Uses your senses- Empiricism

Axiology: Revival and developlment of Mid-evil scalisticism

Educational Giants: St. Thomas Equianes

purpose of school: Integrate Idealism and Realism with religion

Curriculum: Also understand about history

Nature of the learner: Teach both theology and phyliosphy

Role of the Teacher:

Pragmostism

Practical and Direct, more strict and designed so that everything has a purpose or has to work

Perennialism

Purpose of School: believe in student acquisition of knowledge that is timeless and enduring across.- Personal development

Curriculum: to ensure that students acquire understandings about the great ideas of Western civilization. Literature that has withstood the test of time

Pedagogy: is one of several schools of thought related to teaching and education. It is an important concept in teacher training and pedagogy.

Classroom environment: believe that the focus of education should be the ideas that have lasted over centuries. ... Essentialists believe that when students study these works and ideas, they will appreciate learning. Similar top perennialism, essentialism aims to develop students' intellectual and moral qualities.

Role of a Teacher: teaches concepts and focuses on knowledge and the meaning of knowledge. Aimed at teaching students ways of thinking that will secure individual freedoms, human rights, and responsibilities through the nature.

Educational Giant: Perennialism was originally religious in nature, developed first by Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century in his work De Magistro (The Teacher).

Post-Modernism

Metaphysics: a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Role of the teacher: postmodern teacher and mature student are partners in learning a body of knowledge within a contemporary context. ... The postmodern instructor is a “guide on the side” whose role is more to facilitate learning experiences toward the meaningful aims.

Role of the student: to work alongside the teacher and learn through experience

Role of the school: school is helpful to teachers but more for the students.

Educational Giant: Jonathan Kramer posits the idea (following Umberto Eco and Jean-François Lyotard) that postmodernism (including musical postmodernism) is less a surface style or historical period (i.e., condition) than an attitude.

Social Reconstructionsim

Metaphysics: a philosophy that emphasizes the addressing of social questions and a quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy.

Role of the school: Reconstructionist educators focus on a curriculum that highlights social reform as the aim of education.

Role of the Teachers: promotes teachers to not tell students what is right or wrong in society, but instead to guide students by exploring social issues, presenting alternative viewpoints, and facilitating student analysis of the issues.

Role of the Students: raise questions to think and ways to better the government and the world.

Educational Giant: Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld (1904-1987) was a leading educational philosopher of social reconstructionism of the 20th century.

Washington and Dubois

Washington is very down to earth and humble. He knew what people would want, he believed in accommodation. He overcame a lot and came from nothing so he was a great example that we can be whatever we set our mind to.

DuBois believed that African Americans should not limit themselves to vocational labor but to educate themselves in order to be recognized as full citizens as was their right. He had faith in what people could become.

Analytic Philosophy

It is the importance of language and the meaning behind words. it is characterized by an emphasis on argumentative clarity and precision, often making use of formal logic, conceptual analysis, and, to a lesser degree, mathematics and the natural sciences.

Nature of the learner: involves study of language and how concepts and questions can be expressed

purpose of school: nature and aims of education and the philosophical problems arising from educational theory and practice.

curriculum: approaches to philisophical problems and linguistic problems

Nature of the learner: conduct conceptual investigations that characteristically, though not invariably, involve studies of the language in which the concepts in question are, or can be, expressed.

role of the teacher: Make the classroom a conversation, Ask questions and get to the root

Educational Giant: Bertrand Russell, led the British "revolt against idealism." He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy

Metaphysics: of analytic philosophy, the whole movement is associated with the rejection of metaphysics.

Idealism

Metaphysics: Reality is experimental, what you can change

Epistemology: what you see or think is objective

Curriculum: Science, Math, English and all core classes

Educational Giant: Plato, G.E Moore

Purpose of school: Discover and develope individuals and abilities

What is in your mind is real and true. An idealist is someone who reads and writes, who learns to question and to think

Role of a teacher: Learn themselves and learn to mold the mind into more so that all may dins their own personal reality

Existentialism

Metaphysics:

Metaphysics: Challenge and encourage students to learn and grow and to believe in ourselves individually, it is our personal responsibility to learn

Curriculum: Based on individuals and relationships, Drama, Music, Artistic ideas

Role of the teacher: The teacher must learn about the students and how they can help them succeed, Let the children find out for themselves so they should bring them outside, on walks, maybe to controversial events

Role of a Student: Have a relationship with the teacher, find out for themselves what they want to do. Question and know for themselves

Educational Giant: Soren Kierkegaard, he was a german philosopher who inspired existentialism

Paola Friere

People either join the oppressed or stand against them

All individuals can create their own history

Learning the word and the world can create critical thinking

He was so hungry he couldn't learn: Out of school Factor

Every soul has the potential to Learn

We assume some kids don't know anything: Deficit Learning

Jane Addams

poor immigrant children should be taught

government should be taught, life lessons and especially culture, that everyone is equal

Children can teach and parents can also learn to teach

Training should be done by the government

Johnson

We should adapt to the needs of the children and teach how they learn

Schools and Education will forever be encouraged

He looked at opportunity of different things to learn

Progressivism

Purpose of school: believe that education should focus on the whole child, rather than on the content or the teacher. This educational philosophy stresses that students should test ideas by active experimentation. Learning is rooted in the questions of learners that arise through experiencing the world.

Curriculum: Curriculum content is derived from student interests and questions. education should focus on the whole child, rather than on the content or the teacher. This educational philosophy stresses that students should test ideas by active experimentation.

Classroom Environment: Allow the children to ask questions and to learn fro themselves

Subtopic

Essentialism

Metaphysics: is any philosophy that acknowledges the primacy of essence. Unlike existentialism, which posits "being" as the fundamental reality, the essentialist ontology must be approached from a metaphysical perspective.

Role of the Teacher: The teacher is the center of the classroom, so they should be rigid and disciplinary. ... It is the teacher's responsibility to keep order in the classroom.

Role of the Student: Listen to the teacher and be good.

Role of the School: along side school administrators, plot the educational course for their students. The goal of essentialism is to produce disciplined and educated students who are able to apply what they've learned in real life settings.

Educational Giant: William Bagley, took progressivist approaches to task in the journal he formed in 1934. Other proponents of Essentialism are: James D. Koerner (1959), H. G.

Mann

He was concerned about the well-being of people

the Constitution should be made a study

Education is the great equalizer