Wednesday, September 3, 2008

what teaches and studs need to do

1-Pg. 69, Para 3. The Narration way of teaching gives the student the facts, but not the knowledge behind the facts. It is pointless for the students to know the Capital of Illinois if they don’t even know what the capital means. For all they know it’s the mayor of Illinois, or a river, anything. It gives them facts but doesn’t give them power to do anything with the fact, just hold on to it, like a container. Narration is not a good way of teaching. “Narration leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content.”
2- Pg. 69, Para 4. When teaching you shouldn’t just give the students the answer or act like you know the right answer and there is only right answer. No teacher should have the motto my way or the high way. Teachers should almost pretend to be ignorant and let the students struggle to find the answer themselves because then they will truly learn, and the knowledge they gain will be their own, and then the teacher can learn from the students ideas rather than just having them all learn his. “But unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher”
3- pg. 69, Para 5. A teacher should be open and not just teach the students his ideas because then he will just be making a class full of students with the same view and ideas as himself. In order to have a successful learning environment a teacher must be open to learn from the students, almost become a student himself. “Both are simultaneously teachers and students”.
4- Pg. 70, Para 3. As a student and a teacher we should keep our minds open. If a student is learning about slavery in their history class, and then reading Their Eyes Were watching God in another class, they could use the knowledge of the black history they learned to help make better sense of the time in which Their Eyes Were Watching God took place in. “Seek out the ties which link one point to another and one problem to another”.
5- Pg. 70, Para 5. A teachers job is to give students knowledge, to give them information so that they can then go out and make their own conclusion from it, schools should not make all their students the same yet strength them so that they can go out in the world and be themselves with their own ideas and knowledge with conclusions that they have come to on their own. “ But to transform that structure so that they can “become beings for themselves.””
6- Pg. 71, Para 3. A teacher must have trust in their students to achieve in critical thinking and have faith in them to do it on their own. He must but effort into them so that they believe in themselves that they do have the knowledge to do critical thinking on their own. “His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in men and their creative power.”
7- Pg.74, Para 2. In order for a class room to achieve problem-Posing education, the students and the teacher must be open and read to learn, from everyone in the room. Students will teach other students, and the teacher. “They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.”
8- Pg. 74, Para 2. In order for a class room to learn and feel open with their “teacher” the teacher must put down there, I’m the smartest one in the class room wall, and have an open mind, and be just as ready to learn as their students. “In order to function, authority must be on the side of freedom, not against it.”
9- Pg. 74, Para 4. A teacher most come to class prepared to teach, but not necessary teach it, he should watch his class come to their own conclusion, and share ideas with the class room, and encourage them to think for themselves and if they get off track or misguided the teacher then can step in. “The teacher presents the material to the students for their consideration, and reconsiders his earlier considerations as the students express their own.”
10- Pg.75, Para 1. In order for one to learn they must be challenged, they must be tested and an educator can do so my putting problems into real life situations. “Students, as they are increasingly posed with relation to themselves in the world and with world, will feel increasingly challenged”.

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