What Kind of Citizen
What are the 3 different types of citizens named in the book?
Personally Responsible Citizen, Participatory Citizen, Social-Justice Oriented Citizen
School-by-school .... are merely local manifestations of a broader top-down bureaucratic obsession with sameness.
Standardization Efforts
New teachers often believe they get to...
...write the script, set the stage, and raise the curtain.
What federal program does the author critique for overemphasizing testing?
No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top
When a classroom is working silently, that means all the students are always working effectively.
False- students follow along better with engagement and gain more knowledge when there are explanations and resources that are to be gone over.
Which role of a citizen knows how government agencies work?
The Participatory Citizen
True or False: Teachers are invested more in teaching their students the ways of critical thinking in classrooms.
True
This example shows how deeply embedded scripts about substitute teachers or students like Archeem shape classroom life before teachers even begin. What does the author argue educators must do with these narratives?
Rewrite them with time, patience, and creativity to connect learning more meaningfully to students' lives.
Standardized tests reduce the skill of...
...critical thinking in a classroom.
This myth claims that the only way to teach democracy is by fully modeling it in the classroom and school.
What is the myth of democratically oriented teaching and learning?
What is a sample action of a Social Justice Oriented Citizen?
Explores why people are hungry and acts to solve root causes.
What is the purpose of the "teacher-proof" curricula like Success For All, and what effect do they have on teachers?
Standardize instruction and minimize "bad teaching", diminish teacher autonomy, and treat teachers as replaceable or scripted workers.
If schools want young people to engage with and the improve the world,
...then lessons must go beyond a system of retelling historical events. (dismiss learning for memorization.)
A ... nation can better prepare students to be ... citizens by encouraging deference to authority and discouraging lessons about social movements and social change.
Democratic
What are some nondemocratic lessons that appear to have democratic means?
Teaching in progressive ways through community orientation, high social skills, and being cooperative with different perspectives.
What is a compliant or obedient student?
These types of students are generally produced in American schools that foster critical thinking. They defer to authority and avoid questioning the integrity of education.
What is a critical, engaged, and democratic student?
This type is typically the one that history/social science teachers aim to create. This includes someone who questions authority, engages with social issues, participates actively, and critically thinks about democracy.
Narratives in a classroom setting for a lesson...
Can be rewritten. (Using different approaches using creativity... changing up questions, using various sources)
According to critics of the Jefferson County proposal, it wasn't about making better citizens but about removing what key idea behind good citizenship?
Choosing leaders, holding them accountable, protesting peacefully, and questioning authority.
A classroom that is just focused on teaching facts emphasize who...
The authority of school governance systems, which defeats the purpose of developing convictions.
Designed to place multidisciplinary analysis and action regarding social problems and themes from social life at the heart of students' school experience.
"Core" or "Core Cirriculum"
Teachers were praised in states like Wisconsin, Colorado, and New Jersey for being the solution to economic problems, given more freedom, and rewarded with greater trust.
False - teachers were blamed for problems, stripped of rights and subjected to more monitoring.
Students need to challenge their biases and not just look for answers that fit the ideals of a clean answer
This is apart of widespread cultural agreement.
What could be happening in schools that may cause the downplay of sufficient opportunity or incentive to think for themselves?
The high demand for higher test performance and better college admission statistics.
The acceptance of supporting politics and discovering various views supports...
Myth 6: Politics should be kept out of schools - politics should be inclusive within the curriculum so that students gain knowledge over shared views in a community.