Essential Questions

What is worth teaching?

Doctrines vs. Principles

keep your personal beliefs aside?

Teach students that there is a higher being

Not inflicting beliefs, just stating facts

What parents are not teaching at home.

We must be careful to not take the role of a parent.

Students will learn important skills that the
parents may or may not be teaching at home.

Hard work=success

Universal rights and responsibilities

Goal of education: Growth

Students can only achieve what they work for

The principle of hard work, not a "given" life.

What is required to succeed

Prepare for tests

Things that will "stick"

Strategies for learning

Running a school store

Help teacher with an activity

Use surrounding resources

Lessons that apply to life after school

Budgeting

Filling out paperwork

Using your skills from school

Equality

They should be taught from an early age that everyone is equal, no one person is greater than another.

How do I learn?

Visual

Through senses

Hands-on activities

Activities leave a lasting memory

Teachers preparation

Provide entertaining ways of learning

Repitition

Rethink truths and idaeas

Establish a pattern/schedule of your activities and interests.

Make leisure time an educational opportunity

The more you learn, the more you can help

learn by study and by faith

God is a worthy source of knowledge

Learn to apply knowledge

Find your place and use that place to shape yourself and society.

From the students response to your teaching

Knowing is a result of experience

Experiential learning

Being attentive

Pay close attention

Show interest in what you are learning

How do I view those I teach?

Full of Potential

Some teachers do not share this view

Start with their needs in the classroom

They will open up to you if you show that
you care.

More likely to have success in your students learning.

Equal

Racism

Every student gets the same treatment.

Favoritism

No teachers pet.

No special treatment.

Bias

Same race, gender, class.

Capacity to learn

Learn, not work

Recognize individual capacities and differences and work with them.

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.

Children of God

We have His divine potential

Simply human beings

The opressed

Violence

Rebellion

Love

Dehumanize others and themselves

Other people are just things

Who am I and what motivates me?

A child of God

Success

The success of others

Seeing others succeed because they worked hard.

Doing what I love

Your job will not seem like a work if you love it and care for students

Equality

Opportunity for all

Fairness

No special treatment, just equality.

Seen for who they are, not their race or skin color

Quality

Good teaching

Students are getting the best education possible

Creating successful human beings who contribute because of their education

What is the role of school in society?

Influences a child's behavior

Children go to school because they have to

If they like it, they will excell

Some students enjoy school

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.

Distinguish between education and school

What is the difference?

How are children learning and is it the best way?

"The American Dream"

A dream or reality

Depends what you make of it.

Working hard to succeed.

Right or privilege?

Those who are of other race or ethnicity than white would say they come here searching the American Dream.

Changes in society and living standards in today's world
require specific modifications to secondary education.

Teach about God?

Provide opinion

Acknowledge Him with the students

Do not inflict your beliefs on them

Receiving and Education

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.

School's should increase in quantity and quality.

DACA and Dream Act

Upon what foundation are U.S. schools built?

With money in mind

Priviliges

Some only want money instead of a child's education

Go to further measures to deal with problems.

Provide an education

Provide best teachers

Provide extra-curricular activities

offer a diversity in learning experiences and social interactions

activities that students enjoy

Gives equal Opportunities

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.

Gives people equal opportunities and rights

It hasn't always been this way. Plessy v. Ferguson
and Brown v. Board of Education.

Must be willing to change some practices to fit needs of students.

There is more need for social reform
than educational reform.

Discrimination

Ignorance of certain races

Jobs, teams, friends, opportunities

DACA/Dreamers

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.

Take for Granted their opportunities.

Some see the things in life as a given,
and not something they have to work for.

Help build society

What is my work as a learner and a teacher?

Provide a learning environment

Safe

Dorothy's case; her teachers ignored her as well.

Do not put them in danger under any circumstances.

Comfortable to share thoughts

Teach what is required

Include personal opinions

Don't inflict your opinion on them

Allow students to choose their views

Further an education

Encourage, plan, question, and offer suggestions

Not an authoritarian figure, but a Cheerleader

Liberate, not dogmatize

Help students and yourself enjoy learning

Be steadfast and immovable

lead students in a direction of most worth

Create a fun environment with activities and games, not just textbooks

Encourage to follow dreams

Achieve success

See true potential

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.

Teach with a goal in sight

Know what you want the student to learn

Create a teaching style according to this goal

Tell students what they should know by the end of class/unit

Teach what is right, not necessarily what is in the books.

Accountability and responsibility

Duty to perform and Work hard for an education

Students have the responsibility to be proactive about their learning.