1. Learning to Teach Everyone’s Children
Chapter 1 The Changing Face of Teaching and Learning

2. A Conversation about school…
Recall a conversation with a parent,
grandparent, relative, friend, or teacher….What reason for school attendance was offered in this conversation?

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4. Why students go to school: the three purposes of schooling
Preserving and transmitting the past cultural heritage
Selecting and preparing students for occupational status levels
Preparing students to build a better society

5. Why are you at U.M.D.? To get a job. To learn more, become smarter
To make things better for the next generation
My parents said I had to go.

6. Primary Reasons for Teaching
A Calling…born to be a teacher
The Love of Children…works in progress
The Desire to Help…the enduring potential to construct and reconstruct both themselves and their social world

7. Which most describes your desire to become an educator?
A calling
The love of children
The desire to help

8. Preserving and Transmitting the Cultural Heritage
A rich tradition of enduring truths and values for each succeeding generation
A certain fund of knowledge must be possessed…cultural literacy…to be considered educated and to be successful in society
Rapid change, global market economy, multiculturalism militate against this approach, say critics

9. Selecting and Preparing Students for Occupational Status Levels
Certifying students for the world of work
Meritocracy…those who are the brightest and work the hardest, will go the furthest (tracking systems)
Perpetuating inequalities, critics say, based on class, race, gender

10. Preparing Students to Build a Better Society
Students can learn skills of social reform and to be tomorrow’s leaders
An informed citizenry is needed to have a productive society…Jefferson
Students will leave school overly idealistic and under skilled for success, some critics say

11. Do you think the schools you went to best prepared you to…
Get a good job in the future
Make a more just and fair society
Learn the rich heritage from the past

12. Changes influencing Teaching and Learning
Focus on teacher quality…subject matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, knowledge of students (mainstream and marginalized)
Changes in Student Demographics…ethnic and racial, language, social class (global market economy, downsizing, service-based economy have led to the “working poor”

13. Students who do well in school
Are usually the smartest ones
Have unfair advantages over the rest
Work the hardest
Have the best families

14. Ways of Teaching Paying attention to power
Many kinds of power: legal, administrative, economic, military
Can be seen as relations among individuals or groups based on social, political, and material imbalances or asymmetries

15. The most important kind of power anyone can have is
Legal power
Administrative power
Economic power
Military power

16. Power used in Education
Social, Political, Material
Visible and Invisible…norms, expectations, school rules and demands and expectations of individuals, institutions, and agencies
The Dominant Discourse…determines what counts as true, important, relevant, what gets spoken and what remains unsaid

17. Multicultural Education
All aspects of schooling address the needs and talents of a diverse population to ensure equity for all. It is both a philosophy and a process.
EMCSR…education that is multicultural and social reconstructionist to respond to changing population demographics, the influence of globalization, shifting conceptions of what knowledge and whose knowledge should influence the curriculum

18. EMCSR Dramatic demographic changes, familial patterns
Globalization of the economy, environment, labor, politics, culture
Curriculum reform movements
Cultural transformation and social transformation

19. Six key elements in a reconstructionist approach
Connect educational philosophy to a broader social philosophy grounded in democratic values
Schools cannot be “neutral”
Not only cognitive but also moral discourse
Students participate in communal experiences
Open discussion embracing differences
Teachers as transformative intellectuals