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Sunday, February 11, 2007

An interesting point to the Regelski article was his call for social awareness in teachers. I found all of the institutionalism very important, and thought invoking. It's controversial to think that we as educators will be entering a work place that has been formulated in such a way that what is expected of us can overwhelm us to the point of submission to the institution. Also I think social awareness is necessary to create critical thinkers in our students. Regelski points out how teachers can fall into the traps of institutionalism by labeling, naming, and generalizing about students. These are three things we learned in CP that teachers should not due. This article and what we learn in CP about "good teaching" will take an extreme amount of time, awareness and personal reflection to put into practice of our own teaching. I think it would be interesting to do a study on students who learn CP and Social awareness, and how when they are teachers they either do or don't allow what they learned to cause change in their institution.

1 Comments:

At 7:59 AM, Blogger ejames said...

Well this is something that Mr. McBride would often bring up in CP2. Especially as a new teacher you should learn to pick your battles. Some things are just have to be done a certain way because it is the way the school is use to running. Even though you may not agree with some things and want to do things differntly, at the right time it may be good to bring up any issues but it is so easy to just get into the flow of things and not speak up about something. I think it would also be very interesting to study the teachers' passion for teaching. Does it fade because of time or because they are being told how to do things?

 

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