Red fill = concepts/ideas I do NOT want in my classroomYellow fill = concepts/ideas I am unsure about using in classroomGreen Fill = concepts/ideas I will be using in my classroomPurple Fill = Master Teacher (represents Christ-like attributes)Blue flag = DoctrineYellow Flag = PrincipleTool =
How do I view and magnify those I teach?
Children of God
Have a responsibility to learn continually
Education is an eternal quest
Unlimited potential
Repentance
Children learn by their mistakes and as a teacher I need to remember/recognize that
Point out that lessons can be learned after we fail.
Keep moving forward
Application: draw a bunch of lines intertwining (looks like a mess), and then tell them to create a picture from that.
Help them understand consequences (both good/bad) - 2 Nephi 9:48
Use a "Choose Your Story" book/activity to show how choices can affect us. But then go on to say that we can always try again in life.
What is my work as learner and teacher?
Educator
Trainer
molder
leader
Encouraging
Problem solver
Promote honest learning
“Be a breeding ground for brilliance, optimism, and new thinking”
"Come Follow Me"
Understand doctrine/principles of Jesus Christ = good teacher
Learner
to become educated & seek learning continually
accept their "teacher" as their guide in the learning journey
Maintain humility while learning
Don't come out of 12 years of education only to be a bystander
Never turn your own thinking/thoughts over to another individual
They need to know that they will be learning their whole lives, so they should understand how they learn best and to actively trying to learn new things.
Students should understand that in addition to continually learning, they will also need to know how to think for themselves on the spot
Give kids topics, and have them do an activity that has to do with that topic. Maybe they can write a story, draw a picture.
Have them build something will Legos.
Have them teach me and their classmates what they have been learning.
Study
D&C 58:27; "Be anxiously engaged in a good causes"
Ask questions
James 1:5; "Ask and ye shall receive"
Every month do an activity that will help them figure out what they like and then spend some time throughout the month helping them learn more about that subject.
Give students an opportunity to ask questions with one another and then also to me.
What is worth teaching?
Teach them how to understand - I facilitate/guide their learning. I don't tell them just to listen.
Understanding is the spiritual outcome
If I do this, then they will hopefully know how to understand any truth that comes their way in life
Act on what is being taught
How to learn effectively
Academics & Life Lessons
Become a well-educated member of society
Failing can be turned into a positive thing.
What eternal truths and values do you believe should be shared with all students? - Teaching Philosophy
They should be taught that they are children of God
Means their potential is unlimited
Do an activity where classmates write down the strengths they see in each other
They are worth it and loved
Teach them that the value of things doesn't always come from what they first see.
Examples: a clam, coal/diamond, 5 dollar bill crushed activity, etc.
They are loved!
Taught learning can turn to wisdom
The best students can learn anything anywhere
Repentance
They can have second chances
Charity
Teach the "why" behind the learning
How do I learn?
Learn by the Spirit
The Spirit is the greatest teacher.
Since I will be teaching public school, I can't pray in the classroom. But I can still do things that will encourage the Spirit to be there and hopefully provide the Spirit to teach the kids.
Teachers should not always be in control
Allow small moments throughout the day for the Spirit to help them understand what is being taught.
Meditation for the students
Need to have humility - this encourages the Spirit to be there
Hands on learning
Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?
Common Core
No Child Left Behind Act
Every Student Succeeds Act: more focused on the needs of each individual student's learning
Every child has individual worth, and that can be conveyed as we recognize the different ways each student learns.
Do a variety of learning ranging from hands-on activities to doing lessons outside. Get to know each student and how they best learn.
3 Nephi 11:15; one by one
Set aside time to get to know each individual student. Let them know I care not only about their education, but their likes and dislikes outside of school.
Have each child decorate a name tag full of their favorite things. Then have the members of their group say what they like about each students name tag.
Each child learns differently in education and throughout life. Just as each person feels the Spirit differently.
Focusing on Essentialism - current public education
Demanding more and more out of younger children; this is not allowing them to enjoy the things they should at their age
We need to recognize the nature of learners at all ages
What is the role of school in society?
We are raising the next generation to thrive in society
Moses 7: 18; Zion "they were of one heart and one mind"
Everyone working together creates better results.
As a teacher, I would like to participate in parent/teacher organizations to improve school for the students.
Work with other schools and brainstorm with those teachers and administrators.
As people come together for one righteous cause, it bless the lives of each member.
Get involved with the community to influence good change for everyone, especially the children.
"It takes a village to raise a child"
Massachusetts Bay Colony article:
They have a moral duty
Endow the educator with the means to properly learn
What is the role of learning and teaching in the home?
Parents should encourage learning and cultivate an environment for a desire of learning to grow
Parents are one of the main sources of learning for a child
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Parents are responsible to teach their children what is right and wrong.
Do an activity where we share what everyone's family rules are.
Children thrive best with both a mother and a father present in the home.
Encourage parents to really participate in Parent-Teacher conference.
Parents should lead their family in wholesome, recreational activities.
Send newsletters home for the kids to do activities with their parents as much as possible. I want to encourage more family time as much as possible.
Parents are one of the main sources of learning for a child
Who am I and what motivates me?
Love
For my future students
Continually Progressing: For continual education and personal growth
Should be service oriented
Get together with another class and do pen-pal sort of activities. Ministering in a way they don't know it.
Find activities/opportunities to do service projects around the school. (Picking up trash around the playground, helping in the lunch room)
Prepare a lesson with each child in mind (individual worth)
Have a compliment wall where classmates write kind things about each other throughout the week
Plan of Salvation
Use connections
Freedom of the Mind
Recognize the humanity of my students
Think like a scholar
Recreate positive conditions that children should have experienced in a loving home
Would there be time for students to meditate and ponder what they learned?
If we admit that in education it is necessary to begin with the experiences which the child
already has and to use his spontaneous and social activity, then the city streets begin this
education for him in a more natural way than does the school.
Teach no limitations
Teaching in small groups and then presenting in front of the class
Start with them sharing with small groups, and then help them transition to speak in front of the class
Application: have them pick random topics and then speak on that for 10 seconds
Help them act on revelation
Help them think and articulate their
Lesson Planning
Activity: do an "Activate Prior Knowledge"
Don't take a middle class perspective on students' lives.
Celestial Culture
Love
Faith
Trust
Honesty
Truth
Fairness
Obedience
Self-control
Devoted
"Technology is stunting thought and wonder"
Use nature as a way to promote thinking and wonder
Encourage them to explore
It is important not to see color, but it is important to recognize different backgrounds and treat them accordingly.
You can't treat every student the same way. They are each different.
Do a family history/genealogy activity
Get to know students and their families
Example from class: Potluck before school starts
Have many different forms of communication between teachers and parents
Progressivism
Purpose of school
Should be focused on the student, not the content or teacher
Students learn through problem solving and making connections to their lives outside of school
Promote democratic society
Role of teacher
Help the students "learn by doing"
Facillitator
Director of learning
Collaborative partner
Research director
Curriculum
Should come from student interests and questions
Experience centered
cooperative learning
Project method
Problem solving
Integrative Units
Pedagogy
Be active, not passive
"Books are tools, not authority"
Classroom Environment
Encourage students to ask questions
Students should experiment
Assessment
Formative evaluation
Emphasize citizenship
Democratic
Community centered
Collaborative
Educational Giants
John Dewey
"school should improve the way of life for our citizens through experiencing freedom and and democracy in schools"
"Education is a process of living, not a preparation for the future."
Nature of Learner
Researcher
Group Oriented
Provides an unselfish atmosphere to learn
Promote democratic society
Behaviorism
Purpose of School
Role of Teacher
Curriculum
Pedagogy
Classroom Environment
"Repetition of a meaningful connection results in learning"
Assessment
Educational Giants
B.F. Skinner
Social Reconstructionism
Purpose of School
critique cultural and social institutions
Prepare change agents
Role of Teacher
Curriculum
focused on students experience in life and tries to solve real world problems
Pedagogy
Classroom Environment
Subtopic
Assessment
Educational Giants
Perennialism
Purpose of school
believe education and knowledge transcends time
Cultivate the intellect
Promote moral development
transmit eternal truths and values
Curriculum
History, English, Philosophy
great ideas of Western Civilization
To seek enduring truths which are constant
Classroom Environment
Organized and discipline
Role of Teacher
Teach students reasoning skills and critical thinking
Educational Giants
Dante and Charles Dickens
Assessment
How well they can transfer knowledge into skills
Objective tests/Standardized tests
Essentialism
Curriculum
math
science
history
Arts
Pedagogy
Strict and disciplined
Classroom environment
Teacher is center of classroom
Teacher is very strict
Teacher controls classroom with a system of rewards and punishments
Purpose of school
Train intellect
Develop cultural literacy
Curriculum and Instruction
Back to basics
Lecture
Socratic dialogue
Master of facts
Learning by objectives
Role of teacher
teacher as demonstrator
Authoritarian
Post-modernism
Purpose of school
examine myths
examine all institutions
Curriculum
Classroom Environment
Role of Teacher
Educational Giants
Assessment
Pedagogy
Patient
Loving
Forgiving
Genuine
There's only 1 correct answer
Resulted in being afraid to ask questions
We were taught how to take tests
we were taught how to memorize
If you don't earn an "A", worse than average
Defining your intelligence through homework
No forgiveness
Teachers picked favorites
Everyone is taught the same way at the same time
They were concerned with the statistics of learning instead of measuring growth.
As an educator, provide a classroom that encourages curiosity, not one that diminishes it.
Comenius
wanted to reform education to be more advanced
came up with one of the first books for teaching
Created the first textbook with pictures
Advocate for early education
Plato
Beecher
Dewey
Education is a process of living, not a preparation for future living
Present life as life
Home
is the form of social life that is nurtured and where those connections are made
Present education needs to be part of community life
"I believe that only through the continual and sympathetic observation of childhood's
interests can the adult enter into the child's life and see what it is ready for, and upon
what material it could work most readily and fruitfully."
Horace Mann
School is essential
Forms civilization
Common School
Students were educated, then left. There was hardly any application.
School can sometimes feel like a job, not an opportunity to learn
School was like a factory; placed on an assembly line and just forced through
Allows individuals from any background to become what they want to be - American Dream
Resistance
Taxes - people don't want to pay for the education
Local Control - funding comparison between wealthy neighborhood schools vs poor community schools
Government involvement in education was a repudiation of liberalism and parental rights
Metaphysics
Make our ideas clear
Epistemology
Knowledge should be used to act on things
Axiology
Subtopic
Educational Groups
Subtopic
Purpose of School
Curriculum
Pedagogy
Nature of the learner
Role of the teacher
There's only 1 correct answer
Resulted in being afraid to ask questions
We were taught how to take tests
we were taught how to memorize
If you don't earn an "A", worse than average
Defining your intelligence through homework
No forgiveness
Teachers picked favorites
Everyone is taught the same way at the same time
They were concerned with the statistics of learning instead of measuring growth.
Philosophy and Education
Education is intertwined with a passion to understand
Search for truth
Education calls teachers "to lead from ignorance"
Philosophy compels teachers to lead students in a direction that is meaningful and of most worth
Philosophy: love of wisdom
4 Branches of Philosophy
Metaphysics: What is the nature of reality?
What's real and not real
Determines what's worth teaching and how it will be taught
As a teacher, determines WHAT I teach.
Epistemology: What is the nature of knowledge?
Theory of knowledge
Where do answers come from?
Is there a right answer?
How we know what we know?
Helps answers children's "why" questions
the better we understand it, the better we can teach our students
As a teacher, determines HOW I teach
Axiology: What is the nature of values?
Value and studying the nature of value
justified and means
What does it mean to be good or bad
Ethics: study of what is "good or bad" in human behavior, thoughts and feelings
Aesthetics: nature of beauty; what is it worth?
As a teacher, it determines values/discipline/grading assignments
Logic
branch of study that concerns questions about reference, prediction, identity, & truth
critical investigation and analysis
deductive and intuitive reasoning
Deductive: involves examining a general case, deducing a general set of rules or principles
Intuitive: taking specific examples and considering the general principles
Helps students see truth
Students will think differently and they will come to solutions differently than their peers
Idealism
considered oldest philosophy of Western culture; dates back to Greece
Values are absolute and eternal
Education is transformation. Ideas can change lives. The more we know, the better we are.
Focus on the Three "R's"
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Class comparisons/Qualities of Idealistic Teacher
Education is always the development within
Focused on helping the student gaining a deeper insight than he/she already has
Continual progression
It will be hard, and there will be disappointments, but every person needs to keeping moving forward
Metaphysics
desire for deeper understanding
Epistemology
Aims to develop the spiritual, emotional, and moral being of students. Help them learn for themselves
Axiology
Wisdom and values are gained through personal reflection and growth
Educational Giants
Plato
Socratic dialogue
Purpose of School
Teach them how to learn for themselves
Curriculum
Learn from the past
Subtopic
Nature of the learner
Responsibility to gain a deeper understand of concepts
Study things to make them think
Role of the Teacher
We are a guide to the students
We hopefully will instill a desire to learn for themselves and to gain wisdom
Teach things that are going to make them think
"Cogito ergo sum"
"I think, therefore, I am"
Transmitting truths and values
Realism
I can obtain knowledge through my senses.
Knowledge is obtainable through research
Syllogism
Scientific Method
Standards, Achievement
Behavioral Objectives
Class Notes
Learn with your senses
Scientific Method
Applying what they learn
Focusing on more than math and science; humanities as well
We come to world with an empty head/blank slate
How do children learn within their first few years of life and try to incorporate that into further learning
Teaching moral and intellectual values
Neo-Theomism
fusion of Greek rationality and Christian Theology
Religious and character education
Many private religious schools
Learning by study and also by faith
God is a worthy source of knowledge
Class Notes
Very faith based and spiritual
Oak Tree Analogy
Intellectual
How does spiritualaity relate to the rest of the world
Study and faith
Pragmatism
Philosophy needed to be applied to solving human problems
Success judged by consequences of actions
Reality is based on my own experience
Application
Teacher encourages, plans, questions, and offers suggestions
Teacher is not an authoritarian; more like a cheerleader
Moral democracy
Summerhill 'Academy'
Existentialism
Language is important
Focus on needs of individual (cognitively and affectively)
Education liberates individual from chaotic world.
Teacher student relationship is personal.
Summerhill 'Academy'