“What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must we want for all children in the community. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy” by John Dewey. My interpretation of this quote is that, as educators it is our mission and our responsibility to provide the very best education to every student who enters our classroom. Overall, parents want their child to be treated fairly and with respect, regardless of how challenging their child may be. In my particular school setting, students arrive with serious emotional and behavioral challenges, the best way I have connected with them is to listen, respect, praise and be a positive role model.
In the closing chapter of Flat World Education, Darling-Hammond laid out her five key elements she argues we need to be able to teach our children for the 21st century.
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Kayla Bryant
10/31/2017 08:58:50 pm
I think you did a really good job highlighting some of the large problems in education that have been pointed out in The Flat World, and you also gave a good explanation of things you personally do in order to give students the education they deserve in an extremely flawed education system. I think that a lot of us as teachers do many things that we don't even think about, and that others probably don't notice- that aren't required of us, but we know that it's necessary or beneficial for the student's sake! I hope that one day our education system will allow us to become even better teachers by providing these basic things for us and laying the path for us to walk our students down. Until then, I guess we will keep on doing what we do best!
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