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Devaluing Teachers
Transformative Intellectuals
From Silence to Dissent
Resistance and Courage
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What has the educational reform shown about what the public thinks of teachers?
Shown little confidence in teacher ability to provide intellectual and moral leadership for the nation’s youth.
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How should we start viewing teachers to restructure the nature of teacher work and stop devaluing them?
As transformative intellectuals
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If we want change in our schools. Where must we start?
At the pre-service level.
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What is critical thinking?
Thinking about something from different angles and coming up with the best answer for that particular problem. There's never one answer for a problem.
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What do people believe teachers should emphasize in?
Mastering subject area
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What must schools represent?
Knowledge, language practices, social relations and values from the wider culture.
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What is the "spinning plates" conversation?
As more people voice their opinions, the more you have to take into considerations other’s opinions.
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Why is it important to be able to think critically in a democracy?
If we want our democracy to continue, citizens must be able to think critically rather than be swayed by propaganda.
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How have technocratic rationalities reduced teacher independence?
By forming a "teacher proof" curriculum
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What are the three questions that teachers should raise for themselves?
1. What should I teach? 2. How should I teach? 3. What are the larger goals?
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What is one thing that teachers should have a chance to voice their opinion on?
Curriculum and school rules
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What does teaching require nowadays?
Toughness
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What assumptions does the “teacher proof” curriculum have and what does it ignore?
Assumes that all students learn in the same way and ignores that students come from different histories and embody different experiences, linguistic practices, cultures, and talents.
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How should we start viewing schools?
As economic, cultural, and social sites.
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What is the one thing that teacher programs do not cover?
Grammar of schooling
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Who comes up with curriculum nowadays?
The government