0078: On Teacher Education. In Opposition to Silence
#teaching #education #edreform
Teachers should enter the field with a working knowledge of pedagogy built from a strong understanding of theory and nurtured through actual practice. They should know how to engage students in dialogue, and properly mediate discussions. They should know how to reflect on their own practice, and make decisions based on their reflections. They should know how to collaborate, and engage other teachers in collaborative discussion, even if it is via social media, blogs, etc. They should have already been engaged in advocacy and education reform. Teachers need to be active in their profession. We’re all tired, but we have to take up for ourselves, and our students. Professional developments should work along these same lines.
This is not the reality of teacher education, so it is up to us to help nurture our fellow teachers in more productive paths. We, the teachers, have been silent victims for too long. We must use our voices.
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Please Read: The importance of the teacher in #edreform #SOS
Discusses the importance of teachers in education reform from which they are often absent. There are millions of teachers in this country. We are a powerful force if we use our voices.
#revolution #education #occupy
…theory or introspection in the absence of collective social action is escapist idealism or wishful thinking.
” Denis Goulet’s Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Education for Critical Consciousness#revolution #education #occupy
…action without critical reflection and even without gratuitous contemplation is disastrous activism.
” Denis Goulet’s Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Education for Critical Consciousness#occupy #education #ows
As teachers, we deal with people, with children, adolescents, and adults. We participate in their development. We may help them or set them back in their search. We are intrinsically connected to them in their process of discovery. Incompetence, poor preparation, and irresponsibility in our practice may contribute to their failure. But with responsibility, scientific preparation, and a taste for teaching, with seriousness and a testimony to the struggle against injustice, we can also contribute to the gradual transformation of learners into strong presences in the world.
” Paulo Freire from Teachers as Cultural Workers