ED312
Who Am I?
What Motivates Me?
7/1 I am a child of God.
7/1 I am motivated by the belief that our actions make us who we are. I want to be a good person, and helping others is a good thing, therefore, by teaching others I will be a good person.
14/2 Intrinsic desire
14/2 I am both a teacher and a learner
14/2 A typical teacher (a white female), so i need to be especially aware of other groups
14/2 A disciple of Jesus Christ
14/2 A guide
What Is My Work As A Learner And A Teacher?
7/1 To adapt to needs.
7/1 To feed Jesus Christ's sheep
8/1 To unify my students in a way that allows them to use their unique cultures.
8/1 To understand my students
8/1 To help on the quest for equality.
10/1 To be aware of the influence society has on education
14/1 To work alongside my students and teachers on the path towards perfection.
"He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things."
18/3 The teacher teaches, the learner learns, so they are engaged in entirely separate activities.
How Do I Learn?
23/1 In a group with others of my ability, with no interaction between myself and those of a higher or lower ability.
13/2 From a fair environment
13/2 From my own intrinsic motivation
14/2 At my own pace
14/2 In a way that I can comprehend and am culturally comfortable with.
14/2 From people that I believe care about me and push me to succeed.
"And He was teaching them many things in parables"
18/3 Service projects help students connect with one another and with the world around them.
18/3 When students do not believe it is safe to act in alignment with the school culture (whether it is acting smart, acting good, etc.) they will likely resist learning to protect themselves and their culture.
18/3 Tucker Five
Increase the development of the lesson-- help students engage the lesson.
Increase kinesthetic
Insert visual
Increase oral communication between students.
Increase the meaning of the lesson by asking questions
31/3 Through debate, discussion, and reflection of carefully thought out questions.
31/3 By testifying of and reflecting on what I learned.
What Is The Role Of School In Society?
8/1 A positive influence that can extend to our communities
14/1 An institution that reflects our society
1/2 To enforce the status quo.
14/2 To use education to improve our societies
14/2 To break down barriers
14/2 To help all people succeed
3/31 To minister to the students
What Is Multicultural Education?
7/1 Educating people to be global citizens.
7/1 Food, fun, fiesta, focus on safe heroes, and focusing on differences.
8/1 Students are encouraged and able to learn what they need to in a way that is right for them.
8/1 A process involving school reform and basic education for all, rejecting discrimination and teaching the principles of social justice across many aspects and settings.
9/1 A process of removing barriers.
10/1 Bringing people together to help build them up.
10/1 Giving the best education possible to all children
22/1 Parallelism--we are not the same, but we correspond, or balance one another out.
1/2 A way of stopping the need for children to resist education by making it inclusive enough that it does not create an environment where they feel it is hopeless to learn.
1/2 A combination of personal, cultural, familial, political, relational, and societial issues.
14/2 Inclusive of all people, regardless of the view that society has, much like Jesus Christ as He taught all people despite their mistakes.
18/3 Equity over equality, since equity creates equality but equality creates unfairness, since people get the same regardless of their circumstances.
18/3 Building up cultural capital
18/3 Academic English
18/3 Libraries
18/3 Food, health care, safety, and other basic necessities are also vital to helping children have a better cultural capital
18/3 Literature like plays and musicals
18/3 Field trips
18/3 Helping children understand and relate to different cultures.
18/3 Switching up the groups
18/3 Discussions
How Do I View And Magnify Those I Teach?
7/1 As children of God with unique and individual ways of being.
7/1 As people from different situations coming together for a common purpose.
8/1 Treat their contributions as valuable.
9/1 Genuinely care for them.
As people who are deficit in some way due to their culture/genetics.
1/2 As people with elements in their lives that are not part of school.
18/3 As people capable of identity change, since culture influences students, but is not all that they are.
18/3 Acculturation: a student can exist within several cultures, it is additvie
18/3 Without qualifying them: they are not "bad students" or "disabled students," they are "students that are working on becoming better at math" or "students with disabilities.
What Is Worth Teaching?
14/1 All things that reflect the light of Jesus Christ.
14/1 Values.
16/1 Only the established, essential curriculum--reading,writing, arithmetic.
1/2 Only the culture that has the highest value.
1/2 Only one culture, with no connect between school and home life (cultural incompatability).
4/1 The issues that the students themselves view as vital
14/2 Empathy
18/3 Appropriate behaviour.
18/3 Sheltered Instruction
Lesson preparation: helping students make connections between their background knowledge and their newly integrated classroom knowledge.
Building background: Directly make connections to the student's background experiences.
Comprehensive Input: Using language that students can understand
Strategies that enhance comprehension
Interaction: students participate through sharing, discussing, and interacting with one another.
Hands-on activities to learn and apply knowledge
Lesson delivery: how well the content is supported, student engagement, and a pace that the students can keep up with and still be challenged.
Determine how well the students understand.
3/31 That family is important.
Upon What Foundations Are United States Public Schools Built?
8/1 Monocultural education
14/1 Deficit theory, or the idea that some students naturally fail due to circumstances beyond the control of either the teacher or the student.
4/1 Banking education
14/2 A hope for equality, and the attempt to do better
14/2 Independence
14/2 Religious values
18/3 Ranking
18/3 Assimilation: Taking away culture to make sure that the only one left remaining to them is an American one.
What Is The Role Of Learning And Teaching In The Home?
14/2 To create positive out-of-school factors
14/2 To help children experience multiple different cultures, parents should help their children be more exposed.
13/2 The home is a third of the balance between students, school, and the home.
14/2 Learning at home is vitally important, because the family is the best organisation we have, like it says in the Family: A Proclamation to the World
14/2 Language exposure
14/2 School is for learning, not the home.
18/3 To interact with the school life. Teachers and parents should have frequent interaction.
18/3 Welcome parents at the doors, invite them in, be polite in a way that makes sense to them.