care for others
Carefully Chosen Material
what are our curriculum's doing to promote student happiness?
Overview
gain awareness about the world around them
Falling
into a
Routine
Cutting non Core Classes
Prepare Students for A responsible Life After School
don't push students towards your goals
“Passive schooling creates passive people” (Wolk, 2007, p. 650).
All Students have A different Path
Teach the Whole Child
develop social responsibility
Goal Setting
Maintaining the Status Quo is not Helping...
- It Creates a Negative environment
- Normativity Can Be Settling/Unsettling
- Students Learn...
- To Want Praise
- Good Behavior Pays OFF
- Conformity is Good
- Are We Teaching Students to Be Obedient or Stifling Their Creativity?
- Can we do both?
- Create Meaningful Assignments
- Promote Free Thinking
- Give All Students a Voice
Give Students Time to Explore and Discover Their Interests
- Hidden Curriculum- What is implied by what we teach?
- Null Curriculum- What we don't teach?
- Thesis: As educators, we must take steps to understand the hidden/null in the curriculum that we teach and make changes in order to inspire our students to be thoughtful, caring and happy citizens in an ever-changing world.
“what life do we want to inspire them to live” (Wolk, 2007, p. 650)?
What Knowledge is of Most Worth?
live in a peaceful and non-violent way
Happiness is different from person to person
Relate the Material to Our students
Understand our Students
Convey a Love for Learning
Create A Curriculum that promotes Student happiness and a long life
“as our children leave our classes and graduate from our schools, how do we want them to be” (Wolk, 2007, p. 650)?
Teach Our Students to Be Creative Individuals
The Impact of the Hidden/Null Curriculum on our Students
References
Never Lose Sight of The Whole Student
Conclusion
Choosing the Right Direction for Education
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- Flinders, D. J. & Thornton S. J. (2013). Chapter 11: The daily grind (4th ed). The curriculum studies reader (pp. 117-126). New York: Routledge.
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Change Can Be Good and Bad
We must...
- consider our Students
- View our current path
- Develop a New Path
- Plan for those Changes
- Advocate
- Spring, J. “From Education and the Rise of the Corporate State to Education in the Trump Era.” Penn State Harrisburg, Harrisburg. 8 Feb. 2017. Speech.
- The Film Archives. (2012, June 1). Education is a system of indoctrination of the young – Noam Chomsky [Video file].
- The University of British Columbia. (2014, April 29). Thoughtful Writing Guy [Digital image]. Retrieved April 21, 2017, from http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/fun-summer-learning/
- Washington College. (n.d.). [Caring for Kids]. Retrieved April 21, 2017, from https://www.washcoll.edu/clubs/caring-for-kids/
- Wolk, S. (2007, May 9). Why go to school?. Phi Delta Kappan, 86(9), 648-658.
- Martin, J. (1976). What should we do with a hidden curriculum when we find one? Curriculum Inquiry, 6(2), 135-151. doi:10.2307/1179759.
- Noddings, N. (2010). Moral education in an age of globalization. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 42(4), 390-396. http://www-tandfonline-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00487.x
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2008). 21st century skills, education & competitiveness: a resource and policy guide (excerpt). 0-10. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?
- Schubert, W. H. (2009). What is worthwhile: From knowing and needing to being and sharing. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 6(1), 22-40.
The need for Change or Not?
Our Society is Facing Complex Issues
Helping our Students to Choose Their Direction