Philosophy

Existentialists believe that anything and nothing can be meaningless/meaningful

They also believe that everything has an essence

our essence has been there before we were even born.

Your essence gives you purpose

Can you create an essence?

What is wrong with being meaningless? - They replace the time to do meaningful time.

How do we stop doing things that are meaningless

Social Media

Netflix

Existentialists believe that anything and nothing can be meaningless/meaningful

They also believe that everything has an essence

our essence has been there before we were even born.

Your essence gives you purpose

Can you create an essence?

What is wrong with being meaningless? - They replace the time to do meaningful time.

How do we stop doing things that are meaningless

Social Media

Netflix

Christ the Master Teacher

Doctrines of religion

The answers are found in the doctrine

Doctrines never change

Doctrines are different than principles and applications

This relates only to religion.

Are doctrines of teaching different than doctrines of religion?

Are there doctrines in teaching?

Doctrines of teaching

These are different than Doctrines of religion

These only relate to teaching

Subtopic

Christ never taught false doctrines, even when it came down to giving up His life.

There are issues in funding for education

If teacher can't fulfill home duties because of lack of money, they forget the purpose of being a teacher.

Main topic

Subtopic

Tenets

Tenet #2 -Act rather than be acted upon. Teach the students to act.

Tenet #1- It's about them, the learner.

A teacher who cares more about his/her student, finds his job more fulfilling.

Christ cares about all of us as His students, and as his brothers and sisters.

Everything we learn comes from Heavenly Father, and the knowledge will go with me in the next life.

Progression is our purpose here on earth.

Education is dependent on our own efforts.

Christ didn't force anyone to listen to Him or to use His atonement, because He knew that that was what Satan wanted.

We learn by teaching.

Living (tree)

Needs a lot to keep alive

Water

Nutrients

opposition

continues to grow

Christ gives us living water. He also gives us lessons that can be learned continually.

Dead (Sticks

Doesn't need a lot to keep up

Runs out once you burn it all

Its about them!!

Christ could have easily taught about Kolob and about the deep doctrines of outer darkness, but instead, He teaches the basics.

Elementary

Middle School

High School

Higher

Schooling end when people hit 18.

REALIST

PRAGMATIST

IDEALIST

Motivations

Incentives

Extra Credit

Praise

Treats/Prizes

Punishments

"Pulling Cards"

Sending to Principals Office

More Homework

Public Humiliation

Tree's and Branches

Tree's

Branches

Grading

Tests

How often do you take test?

Pop Quizzes

Weekly Tests

Chapter Tests

Practice tests

Assignments

Take Home Assignments

In Class Assignments

Justice and Mercy: Justice cannot be changed, nor can it be voided, but because Christ has already paid, He can offer Mercy. Relating this to grading, we must think about the student individually. At the judgement bar, we might have a grade, but we have to look at what our grade was before, and how far we have come to the grade that we have now. Students might have bad grades, but the important thing to see is that they will improve, and progress towards getting better grades.

Who am I and what motivates me?

I am a student who wants to keep learning

Motivations

What other people want

I want people to be happy, because it makes me happy

I don't want to be just a teacher, but I want to be a friend and a good example.

I want kids to be ready and confident for the future.

What is worth teaching?

Doctrine

Truth

Mr. Saunder - "Never give your second best" and "Be different"

. I remember there was this one day where Mr. Saunders said, “I know that this is choir class and that we should be doing music stuff, but today I feel like we need to do this.” I remember he pulled out a Dr. Seuss book. It was about the elephant who took care of the egg. It talks about how this elephant became the center of attention because it was doing something out of the ordinary. Mr. Saunders made a life lesson out of the story. He said that it was okay to be different. “Not everyone will appreciate your hard work, “ he said, “but you make sure that you work hard so that it’s worth it to you. Be different. Be you. Don’t let what other people think about you be the biggest factor of how you see yourself.”

Christ will always teach what is needed. He will never make a plan and then disregard the Spirit if the Spirit says otherwise.

As we think of what Christ has done for us and how the atonement is so infinite, we also see that others deserve the same treatment. We should love others, and that's why it's a commandment.

Is it more about what came from the book or what applies to life?

Life lessons and application are more important that what came from the book.

The doctrine found in books is the most important thing you teach.

My opinion

I want to teach my students that they are capable of anything, even if they are a 6 ton animal sitting on an egg that could break at any moment. I want them to know that the opinion that matters most is how they feel about themselves. Obviously, God’s opinion is most important, but as a teacher in a regular school, I can’t teach too much about religion. I do, however, realize that if a person knows what their worth is, they most likely know it because they feel Gods love.

Theses are things that Christ wanted to teach us.

These are also doctrines we learn while we use the atonement.

How do I view those I teach?

Children of God

We must use Godly eyes. God constantly sees us as what we can become, even if we make mistake after mistake, day after day. This isn’t meant to be easy, but once we see someone with potential of what they can be, we give them wings to fly, that maybe no one else did.

This is all of the other colors that are based around principles

Brothers and sisters

The future

I want to view them as Comenuis viewed all students. They are the future. I want to show my faith in them. I want to view them as what they can become.

Christ always showed His faith in Heavenly Father. He also had faith in us, or else He wouldn't have performed the atonement.

Our purpose is to learn and grow and sometimes people will have faith in us and we will make mistakes, but there will always be the atonement to help us.

Does the Holy Ghost testify differently when it's about education things rather than spiritual things?

The Holy Ghost testifies differently for different things.

Educational/physical things

He will testify differently because academic things are more physical, so we may see it with our eyes, like an experiment. We may feel that it is true more in our mind because it is more logical and physical.

The Holy Ghost is part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As we are baptized, we then can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Spiritual/feelings

Spiritual things are felt more in our heart and soul rather than our minds, because most of the time religion doesn't fit the standards of logic.

The Holy Ghost testifies the same regardless of the information.

How are assignments going to work?

Punishment

Incentives

Extra credit for volunteering

You have to know your students!

Volunteering

Limits on volunteering

Volunteering can be over used and abused.

The better the learner knows the better the volunteering

How to run the class

Have students read their scores out loud

Students pick their own partners.

Students pick their own

Interrupt a student who doesn't have an applicable answer.

Invite them to answer

Descrete

Some tests try to grade if they do all or nothing

Strike in Education

There are issues in funding for education

If teacher can't fulfill home duties because of lack of money, they forget the purpose of being a teacher.

Tenets

Tenet #2 -Act rather than be acted upon. Teach the students to act.

Tenet #1- It's about them, the learner.

We were meant be act not to be acted upon.

Awakeness

Perfection is a journey

Does the standard and responsibilities of perfection change?

Does your body stature show how your mind is?

P.E. - Good or bad?

I believe that having a good P.E. class is a good thing.

P.E. or recess?

Should you have to grade students for being physically active? Why do most PE classes grade the fitness test.

There is a lot less depression in a community that is active.

The body and the mind work together. Our bodies are a sacred thing that we received ink this life.

FITBITS - Should students have them? They signal that the person has been sitting too long.

Humans were meant to learn while moving.

We weren't the fastest and we didn't have the best senses, we were able to learn while we move.

Our bodies were made in the image of God, who has a perfected body. Our bodies are amazing tools we have to use on earth.

Green: I believe in it. It is truth

Yellow: Experimenting with it. I don't know yet.

Red: I don't believe it.

Christ the Master Teacher

Principles from the Plan of Salvation: Creation, the fall, the atonement. Our purpose here on earth and other questions related to that.

Principles from the Gospel of Jesus Christ: The atonement, repentance, forgiveness, redemption.

The basics that we need to do: pray read church.

You wait for the students to give the right answer and then move on.

You wait for students to give answers that they really believe, and talk about it

Use a spinner

"Popcorn"

Just have people volunteer

Christ always asked questions and didn't really pick on anyone, but He also asked questions that were soul searching.

Incorporate music into class

I think people definitely need their own experiences so that they can experience opposition. I also think that people can learn from other people. They can look at someone going to jail and learn from them. Jail is bad.

This relates to why we are here on earth. We are here to learn and to grow.

Do you have rows?

Do you have decorations to let your students look at?

I don't know if this helps or not. Christ didn't do anything fancy.

Subtopic

Do you have a simple classroom so that students can focus?

When you have one student ready with info but other groups aren't ready, you have the class pause, listen to the speaker, and then they can go back to work. You give them time to finish, but you allow them to break for a second.

This can be hard because sometimes you need to know who needs to answer. Following the Spirit is very vital as a teacher.

Existentialists believe that anything and nothing can be meaningless/meaningful

They also believe that everything has an essence

our essence has been there before we were even born.

Your essence gives you purpose

Can you create an essence?

What is wrong with being meaningless? - They replace the time to do meaningful time.

How do we stop doing things that are meaningless

Social Media

Netflix

Existentialists believe that anything and nothing can be meaningless/meaningful

They also believe that everything has an essence

our essence has been there before we were even born.

Your essence gives you purpose

Can you create an essence?

What is wrong with being meaningless? - They replace the time to do meaningful time.

How do we stop doing things that are meaningless

Social Media

Netflix

Females are better teacher than males

Males are better teachers than females

There is no difference

Personally, good teaching has nothing to do with sex. There are teachers who are male, and know how to teach, how to be nurturing, and how to be understanding, which is usually something people assume only woman are good at.

I have had female teachers who could care less about their job, about their students, and about anything in general. I have a strong belief that we just need good teachers of both genders. It is good for children to see that men can be good influences and good teachers just as much as it is for those same children to see women being good at those too. It is not about gender, it is about being caring.

Everyone is different, but we all have a Heavenly Father who created us with equal amounts of love.

Christ was a man who was a perfect teacher, but I am sure that our Heavenly Mother is also a perfect teacher.

School doesn't hold much credibility in society.

School is a big factor in society.

Everything. Education is everything.

Doctrinal thoughts:

In Heaven, we were being educated on what the world would be like. God, knowing that we wouldn’t even remember, knew that it would still be important for us to learn. Why? Well, once we learn something, it’s in our brain. It may not be remembered at all, but if it is in God’s plan for us to know, He has given us the Holy Ghost to teach and to testify to us that it is true. Adam and Eve were put into a place where life was perfect, but they didn’t even know what perfect was. Part of God’s plan was for them to learn, to be educated. Conversion is an interesting event and process. There are steps that have to be taken, and things that have to be learned. Sometimes in the gospel, we have to keep learning because we forget, but that is why we continue to go to church to be educated. We have personal revelation that is necessary for us to progress. Personal revelation is personal moments where God teaches us things specifically for us. The gospel is based on learning, and so is life.

Examples: Trying to get students to quiet down, by just looking.

After lookings, the students are still active, so then you whistle

Doctrine

Truth

Mr. Saunder - "Never give your second best" and "Be different"

. I remember there was this one day where Mr. Saunders said, “I know that this is choir class and that we should be doing music stuff, but today I feel like we need to do this.” I remember he pulled out a Dr. Seuss book. It was about the elephant who took care of the egg. It talks about how this elephant became the center of attention because it was doing something out of the ordinary. Mr. Saunders made a life lesson out of the story. He said that it was okay to be different. “Not everyone will appreciate your hard work, “ he said, “but you make sure that you work hard so that it’s worth it to you. Be different. Be you. Don’t let what other people think about you be the biggest factor of how you see yourself.”

Is it more about what came from the book or what applies to life?

Life lessons and application are more important that what came from the book.

The doctrine found in books is the most important thing you teach.

My opinion

I want to teach my students that they are capable of anything, even if they are a 6 ton animal sitting on an egg that could break at any moment. I want them to know that the opinion that matters most is how they feel about themselves. Obviously, God’s opinion is most important, but as a teacher in a regular school, I can’t teach too much about religion. I do, however, realize that if a person knows what their worth is, they most likely know it because they feel Gods love.

I am a student who wants to keep learning

Motivations

What other people want

I want people to be happy, because it makes me happy

I don't want to be just a teacher, but I want to be a friend and a good example.

I want kids to be ready and confident for the future.

Females are better teacher than males

Males are better teachers than females

There is no difference

Personally, good teaching has nothing to do with sex. There are teachers who are male, and know how to teach, how to be nurturing, and how to be understanding, which is usually something people assume only woman are good at.

I have had female teachers who could care less about their job, about their students, and about anything in general. I have a strong belief that we just need good teachers of both genders. It is good for children to see that men can be good influences and good teachers just as much as it is for those same children to see women being good at those too. It is not about gender, it is about being caring.

Teachers can affect students

Good Teachers:

Fifth grade, Mrs. Roundtree gave us a writing assignment that was due a week from the day she assigned it. I thought about it every day and continued to wonder what to write about. I don’t actually remember the subject, but I remember I procrastinated, so I was up the night before it was due. I wrote, and I wrote and I wrote so much that I filled out more than just the lines on the worksheet. I wrote on the back, on the side, and when I realized I still had more to write, I got another two papers filled with my thoughts. The next morning we turned them in and she started grading them while we were doing another assignment in class. She stood up and said, “Everyone, I want you to look at this paper.” I realized that she was holding up mine. “This is amazing. This is what it looks like to go the extra mile and to be passionate about what you write.” BAM! I had never been complimented before by a teacher. It kind of made me blush, but I was so excited that she liked it. It made me want to keep writing. So I did. I continued to write and it became something that I loved doing.

Bad teachers:

Another teacher, Mrs. DeGeorgio, wasn’t even my homeroom teacher. We went into her class as part of the rotation. I wasn’t too much of a loud student, but that day I was whispering to another class student about something. “Will you shut up? I am tired of your noise! If you can’t be quiet, then you can go to the office!” I remember laser glare that burnt holes into mine. I felt my face get hot and red and I wanted to start to cry. I felt everyone’s eyes on me, and from that point, I told myself I would never be a teacher who humiliated anyone like that.

Subtopic

Teachers don't affect students that much.

Children of God

We must use Godly eyes. God constantly sees us as what we can become, even if we make mistake after mistake, day after day. This isn’t meant to be easy, but once we see someone with potential of what they can be, we give them wings to fly, that maybe no one else did.

Brothers and sisters

The future

I want to view them as Comenuis viewed all students. They are the future. I want to show my faith in them. I want to view them as what they can become.

The Holy Ghost testifies the same regardless of the information.

The Holy Ghost testifies differently for different things.

Educational/physical things

He will testify differently because academic things are more physical, so we may see it with our eyes, like an experiment. We may feel that it is true more in our mind because it is more logical and physical.

Spiritual/feelings

Spiritual things are felt more in our heart and soul rather than our minds, because most of the time religion doesn't fit the standards of logic.

School doesn't hold much credibility in society.

School is a big factor in society.

Everything. Education is everything.

Doctrinal thoughts:

In Heaven, we were being educated on what the world would be like. God, knowing that we wouldn’t even remember, knew that it would still be important for us to learn. Why? Well, once we learn something, it’s in our brain. It may not be remembered at all, but if it is in God’s plan for us to know, He has given us the Holy Ghost to teach and to testify to us that it is true. Adam and Eve were put into a place where life was perfect, but they didn’t even know what perfect was. Part of God’s plan was for them to learn, to be educated. Conversion is an interesting event and process. There are steps that have to be taken, and things that have to be learned. Sometimes in the gospel, we have to keep learning because we forget, but that is why we continue to go to church to be educated. We have personal revelation that is necessary for us to progress. Personal revelation is personal moments where God teaches us things specifically for us. The gospel is based on learning, and so is life.

Music courses

There are 4 courses for musicianship, 4 classes for literature and history, and one class for form and analysis.

Music courses will help me refine my own skills in music, and if I pay attention enough, it will give me ideas of what kind of teaching works for me and what didn't.

These courses will also give me the supportive background to know where music started and changed.

The musicianship classes I teach me different music tools and skills.

There is a technology class that will require me to do video and audio podcasts, which is something that I have never done before. This might open doors to different careers though too.

The last musicianship will teach me about different chords, pediatrician, theories and styles. Most of that is something that I have no clue about, but like I said before, it would give me a good background and support of why I do things the way I do it.

Courses not included in the required section don't include piano classes, which I will have to have taken, and will have to know how to play so that I can teach with the piano.

Education courses.

There is the education philosophy, which is this class, then there is development and cognitive, reading in the content area, student teaching, and exceptional students grades 6-12.

The Development, cognition, and understanding class will teach me social science, neuroscience and the study of exploring child and adolescent development. These studies will help me to understand why kids do what they do. There will be different stages of the mind to understand and this will also help me decide what age I want to teach.

The content area reading course will teach me practical skills for teaching. It also requires me to do 30 hours per semester of lab experiences, which will give me the experience I need to get a taste of teaching.

Student teaching is a good way to get acquainted with an actual class. I will also be able to share experiences as well as listen to others experiences from other student teachers.

The exceptional students is a course posed towards those who have special needs. This might be a harder class for me because I don't have a whole lot of experience with special needs. I did have a foster sister who had a feeding tube and a track and I had to learn sign language. That was a really awesome experience for me to learn how lucky I was to be able to have a full-functioning body.

I will need to learn how to play the piano. It is hard to teach a choir class without those skills.

I will also need to have good planning skills, because I will be in charge of concerts, fundraisers, and other events.