Since i teach ended on Friday, I am wondering how Heidi Brocious, and Julia created their show and tell presentations? Was it with power point? I want to do one for our dean. I will also poor through my folder and previous folder.
I continue to work on my class in spurts. I have also been reading William Ayers, To Teach: the journey of a teacher. 2nd ed. Published by Teachers College Press. On p. 19, he begins with a quote from his teacher, Maxine Greene(1973) whose teacher was Hannah Arendt. This quote speaks to issue of moral choice. Maxine Greene argues that " the teacher who wishes to be more than a functionary cannot escape the value problem or the difficult matter of moral choice." (p181) in the Teacher As Stranger. Bill Ayers continues to discuss that ways in which we allow ourselves to become functionaries - all the ways that we are worn down by the situations we find ourselves as teachers. All the ideas in these essays are powerfull and inspiring.
To end with another quote from Hannah Arendt. " Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enought o assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from the ruin which except for renewal, except for the young, would be inevitable. And education too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, unforseen by us but to prepare them in advance for renewing a common world. "
My mind is full of all sort of things that are taking further awary from the traditional teadcher preparation models and along a road that is not know to me.
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