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Red fill = concepts/ideas I do NOT want in my classroom
Yellow fill = concepts/ideas I am unsure about using in classroom
Green Fill = concepts/ideas I will be using in my classroom
Purple Fill = Master Teacher (represents Christ-like attributes)
Blue flag = Doctrine
Yellow Flag = Principle
Tool =
Teacher student relationship is personal.
Education liberates individual from chaotic world.
Focus on needs of individual (cognitively and affectively)
Language is important
Summerhill 'Academy'
Moral democracy
Application
Teacher is not an authoritarian; more like a cheerleader
Teacher encourages, plans, questions, and offers suggestions
Reality is based on my own experience
Success judged by consequences of actions
Philosophy needed to be applied to solving human problems
Study and faith
How does spiritualaity relate to the rest of the world
Intellectual
Oak Tree Analogy
Very faith based and spiritual
God is a worthy source of knowledge
Learning by study and also by faith
Many private religious schools
Religious and character education
fusion of Greek rationality and Christian Theology
Teaching moral and intellectual values
Class Notes
How do children learn within their first few years of life and try to incorporate that into further learning
We come to world with an empty head/blank slate
Focusing on more than math and science; humanities as well
Applying what they learn
Learn with your senses
Behavioral Objectives
Standards, Achievement
Scientific Method
Syllogism
Knowledge is obtainable through research
I can obtain knowledge through my senses.
Transmitting truths and values
Class comparisons/Qualities of Idealistic Teacher
"Cogito ergo sum"
"I think, therefore, I am"
Role of the Teacher
Teach things that are going to make them think
We hopefully will instill a desire to learn for themselves and to gain wisdom
We are a guide to the students
Study things to make them think
Responsibility to gain a deeper understand of concepts
Learn from the past
Teach them how to learn for themselves
Wisdom and values are gained through personal reflection and growth
Aims to develop the spiritual, emotional, and moral being of students. Help them learn for themselves
desire for deeper understanding
It will be hard, and there will be disappointments, but every person needs to keeping moving forward
Focused on helping the student gaining a deeper insight than he/she already has
Continual progression
Education is always the development within
Focus on the Three "R's"
Arithmetic
Writing
Reading
Education is transformation. Ideas can change lives. The more we know, the better we are.
Values are absolute and eternal
considered oldest philosophy of Western culture; dates back to Greece
Logic
Students will think differently and they will come to solutions differently than their peers
Helps students see truth
deductive and intuitive reasoning
Intuitive: taking specific examples and considering the general principles
Deductive: involves examining a general case, deducing a general set of rules or principles
critical investigation and analysis
branch of study that concerns questions about reference, prediction, identity, & truth
Axiology: What is the nature of values?
As a teacher, it determines values/discipline/grading assignments
Aesthetics: nature of beauty; what is it worth?
Ethics: study of what is "good or bad" in human behavior, thoughts and feelings
What does it mean to be good or bad
justified and means
Value and studying the nature of value
Epistemology: What is the nature of knowledge?
As a teacher, determines HOW I teach
the better we understand it, the better we can teach our students
Helps answers children's "why" questions
How we know what we know?
Is there a right answer?
Where do answers come from?
Theory of knowledge
Metaphysics: What is the nature of reality?
As a teacher, determines WHAT I teach.
Determines what's worth teaching and how it will be taught
What's real and not real
Resistance
Government involvement in education was a repudiation of liberalism and parental rights
Local Control - funding comparison between wealthy neighborhood schools vs poor community schools
Taxes - people don't want to pay for the education
Allows individuals from any background to become what they want to be - American Dream
School was like a factory; placed on an assembly line and just forced through
School can sometimes feel like a job, not an opportunity to learn
Students were educated, then left. There was hardly any application.
is the form of social life that is nurtured and where those connections are made
examine all institutions
examine myths
Authoritarian
teacher as demonstrator
Learning by objectives
Master of facts
Socratic dialogue
Lecture
Back to basics
Develop cultural literacy
Train intellect
Teacher controls classroom with a system of rewards and punishments
Teacher is very strict
Teacher is center of classroom
Strict and disciplined
Arts
history
science
math
Objective tests/Standardized tests
How well they can transfer knowledge into skills
Dante and Charles Dickens
Teach students reasoning skills and critical thinking
Organized and discipline
To seek enduring truths which are constant
great ideas of Western Civilization
History, English, Philosophy
transmit eternal truths and values
Promote moral development
Cultivate the intellect
believe education and knowledge transcends time
Subtopic
focused on students experience in life and tries to solve real world problems
Prepare change agents
critique cultural and social institutions
B.F. Skinner
"Repetition of a meaningful connection results in learning"
Group Oriented
Provides an unselfish atmosphere to learn
Researcher
John Dewey
"Education is a process of living, not a preparation for the future."
"school should improve the way of life for our citizens through experiencing freedom and and democracy in schools"
Collaborative
Community centered
Democratic
Emphasize citizenship
Formative evaluation
Students should experiment
Encourage students to ask questions
"Books are tools, not authority"
Be active, not passive
Integrative Units
Problem solving
Project method
cooperative learning
Experience centered
Should come from student interests and questions
Research director
Collaborative partner
Director of learning
Facillitator
Help the students "learn by doing"
Promote democratic society
Students learn through problem solving and making connections to their lives outside of school
Should be focused on the student, not the content or teacher
Help them think and articulate their
Help them act on revelation
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
Should be service oriented
Find activities/opportunities to do service projects around the school. (Picking up trash around the playground, helping in the lunch room)
Get together with another class and do pen-pal sort of activities. Ministering in a way they don't know it.
Continually Progressing: For continual education and personal growth
For my future students
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.
Children thrive best with both a mother and a father present in the home.
Encourage parents to really participate in Parent-Teacher conference.
Parents are responsible to teach their children what is right and wrong.
Do an activity where we share what everyone's family rules are.
"It takes a village to raise a child"
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.
Everyone working together creates better results.
Work with other schools and brainstorm with those teachers and administrators.
As a teacher, I would like to participate in parent/teacher organizations to improve school for the students.
Each child learns differently in education and throughout life. Just as each person feels the Spirit differently.
3 Nephi 11:15; one by one
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.
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.
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.
Need to have humility - this encourages the Spirit to be there
Teachers should not always be in control
Meditation for the students
Allow small moments throughout the day for the Spirit to help them understand what is being taught.
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.
Charity
They can have second chances
Taught learning can turn to wisdom
The best students can learn anything anywhere
They should be taught that they are children of God
They are loved!
They are worth it and loved
Examples: a clam, coal/diamond, 5 dollar bill crushed activity, etc.
Teach them that the value of things doesn't always come from what they first see.
Means their potential is unlimited
Do an activity where classmates write down the strengths they see in each other
Become a well-educated member of society
If I do this, then they will hopefully know how to understand any truth that comes their way in life
Understanding is the spiritual outcome
D&C 58:27; "Be anxiously engaged in a good causes"
Ask questions
Give students an opportunity to ask questions with one another and then also to me.
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.
James 1:5; "Ask and ye shall receive"
Study
Never turn your own thinking/thoughts over to another individual
Students should understand that in addition to continually learning, they will also need to know how to think for themselves on the spot
Have them teach me and their classmates what they have been learning.
Have them build something will Legos.
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.
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.
Don't come out of 12 years of education only to be a bystander
Maintain humility while learning
accept their "teacher" as their guide in the learning journey
to become educated & seek learning continually
Understand doctrine/principles of Jesus Christ = good teacher
"Come Follow Me"
“Be a breeding ground for brilliance, optimism, and new thinking”
Promote honest learning
Problem solver
Encouraging
leader
molder
Trainer
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.
Keep moving forward
Application: draw a bunch of lines intertwining (looks like a mess), and then tell them to create a picture from that.
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.
Education is an eternal quest
Have a responsibility to learn continually
