The Seven Questions
1. Who am I and what motivates me?
I am Alex Hicken, and human relationship with God, the eternal nature our siblings as the children of God, and our savior Jesus Christ inspires me. I want the best for the children of God, and there is so much depth to human relations. With this nature I often say that I seek to master communication skills as a tool to fulfill the will of God.
2. How do I view those I teach?
I view those that I teach has people with great potential. I want help people live according to their true desires. During this past summer, I helped two people live their dreams to riding a bicycle to working professionally with musicians. Finding ones true potential and passion is necessary to this cause, so I take interest in people’s passions.
3. What is my work as learner and teacher?
My work is to prepare my student to be effective citizens in society.
4. What is worth teaching?
The power of teaching is the true inspiration of the world. Teaching in its’ many forms changes the world making things happen.
5. How do I learn?
I try not to limit the ways that I learn, seeing my soul as very dynamic. I ponder a lot though. I learn intellectually based, analyzing as many parts of life that I am lead to.
6. Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?
Public schools are built upon its curriculum. They seek to accomplish the missions of the school. Identifying the people who establish the curriculum or agenda of the schools are controversial.
7. What is the role of school in society?
School’s role in society is to raise and set the standard of knowledge and experience of the children therein.
The Seven Questions answered on the 11th of December 2012
1. Who am I and what motivates me?
I am a student at Brigham Young University in Idaho, studying special education. The exploration of different careers in education is my plan. I want to be influential in the world of education, since America is the land of opportunity. I want to be a reformer thereof. A BYU website indicated to be that it is a good foundation to enter administration in order to be a reformer of education.The role of a principal is a means to make change in the nation’s education system that I plan to seek. Receiving a vision, I can make this change, which will need to be tested theoretically and pondered before implementation during my education.
Over the Thanksgiving Break, pondering one night on this goal, since I could not sleep, my thought connected the concept of capitalism to socialized education. Socialism is a controversial means to accomplish our goals, but it is popular. As a principal I would develop a nature of a school that will have each department will be reliant on their own capital; therefore, an unprofitable subject may be cut, but a profitable subject can thrive. I look forward to the day, if this vision is fulfilled that competition among public schools will raise the standard of learning as it becomes a leading standard of business.
I envision that theory should be taught in school, but each department has a business and practicing teachers of the subject. An English teacher must practice a profitable practice therein as an example; then, we will not be forced to practice skills, which we are not interested in. I played in band; although, I was not interested in it, and I did not understand music theoretically. I learn to enjoy music as I learned the theory of music. Those that have the passion to apply these exciting principles should be employed in their practice, developing their talent, passion, and skill by the unlimited means of capitalism. I would not have applied to join the band to be employed, and I should not have been employed in the band in high school because I lacked the musical theorical understanding. Can someone master music without the understanding of theory, but we practice music without the teaching of theory? If my high school only has 4 masters of practicing musicians even one musician, they can be means for profit to run a program. What is the use of an unprofitable program?
I can go on with my vision, but I look forward to the day, when my high school will not beg for funding, but pay taxes, showing the world that education does not need to be socialized, and we can employ the great talent and passion of adolescence. This is my vision to reform education. I want my school to be a first to have an IPO.
2. How do I view those I teach?
I view my students and I am. We are learning to live in this world. All perspectives need to be understood. Education needs to be insightful for all individuals. Students are not an object of work as public education is not profitable. I see many youth lack parents a father, mother, or both.
Teachers are temporally guardians of a child; therefore, I see my position as fatherly. Parents need to be mentors until they are adults. When children are adults, they should be treated by a self-reliant adult as is the parent.
In my high school, a teacher will be an equal in the learning of their craft. Educators need to be practicing their subject. Math is a profitable subject in all practices. A teacher that cannot think the theoretical means of the purpose of their subject that it may be profitable; otherthan itself, he should not be teaching it, for they don’t understand the student, their role, or the role of math.
3. What is my work as a learner and a teacher?
My work as a learner and a teacher is the proper way reform education. I see that the role of a principal as a leader of a school; although, they can only lead perhaps a part of a city. I believe that he can lead a nation as company can be a leading developer of technology of the world. A profit of a singular high school cannot abide in its own residence, expecting to be profitable enough to be self-sustaining; therefore, this competition will have to spread. What if my high school is prospering enough to have composers of popular music for its own performers, when was the last time that a school or a teacher composed a song. Even if I have one masterful musician he can be a most profitable asset, he can go on alone, forsaking the employment of a department, a professional musician. We are all trying to prosper. We are all trying to figure out our way in the world; therefore, my school ought to have the same perspective.
4. What is worth teaching?
The things worth teaching are the things profitable unto man. The basic is literacy. This is the basics of man to explore theory. Things that are profitable do not need to be in a business setting as I have been writing of. Learning history is profitable in order to not suffer the same mistakes as the past. My university taught manners at the business dining situation because it is profitable. Learning sex education is profitable in order to have an informed relationship with the opposite sex, which lays a foundation for success in the family. Most subjects are profitable; therefore, my high school will when prospering will cut a program. It should be expanding as the courses in colleges and universities are expanding. Idea pitchs can be a means of expands and entrepreneurship. No student should ever endure a bad program, and they are not worth teaching because it is harmful to the field of study and the perspectives of the student and everyone involved.
5. How do I learn?
I learn by various means. I believe that learning comes by cognitive development. I say cognitive because there needs to be thinking in order to improve; therefore, I think a lot. Learning can come from pondering experience, human collaboration, literature, and so forth.
I believe that pondering is connected with idealism, the philosophy. In idealism there are truths in many varieties. I believe that God has a plan for his children on earth. Each aspect of that plan has many ideas of truths in the philosophy of idealism, and there are great depths to this. One ideal to ponder is the rights and wrongs of human relationships. When pondering these depths and ideals, Doctrines and principles are discovered. Doctrines are eternal truth. These ideas can address many questions of life. Principles are the ideals applied to life. The pondering of these things is important to me. A life based on doctrines and principles is based on truths. A life lived without the truths of doctrines and principles is lost. Things lose meaning without this process of understanding. I believe in a life of meaning this way.
6. Upon what foundation are U.S. public schools built?
As you may have read, I believe that the principal is the leader of a school. I may be mistaken because I am young in the exploration of the education system. This leader has a guiding role for the teachers.
Teachers have an important role as part of the foundation of education because they are at the forefront, actually running the class applying the lesson plans. The teachers set the learning environment for every student in schools.
Another foundation of education is the philosophy and nature of the school. The philosophy and nature of the school sets the methodology of learning. The goals of a school are a key. These goals can focus on academic excellence and structure, college preparation, diploma and literacy, and learning of social skills.
The students are the foundation too because they have the needs in their development. A children’s development is a very individualized process especially with “disabled” students. Teaching for their needs is an important principle.
7. What is the role of school in society?
Schools are given too many responsibilities, and these roles can be seen as realistic. These tasks are unable to be accomplished; thus, they fail at all tasks. A list of roles that Diane Ravitch composed of the many roles that are sought after for public schools as follows: reduce inequality among individuals, improve economy, spread skill, improve the civilization, reduce alienation, and build more united communities. The preservation of creativity is a subject of much attention today as literacy is taken for granted in America. I don’t believe in the minimal standard to teaching only literacy.
With my vision of my high school, adolescence will see the purpose of writing, reading, and the practicing of skill, for it is not a far off to be practicing a profession and a career. This practice in not extracurricular, but it wil be professional. The high school years and adolescence is a time of learning new emotion and the exploration, and it is also the time of the discovery of abstract thought. An adolescent is full of the passion for life, and the normal high school kills it by studying preparing for college, accomplishing little. Some may work, and some may have practiced a hobby. A lot of adolescence are wasting away this age of discover with meaningless thrill-seeking activities. The standards of a high school diploma and college preparation will remain, but the classes explain the theory of life. These theories are shown to be directly applied in the department businesses by the practicing teachers on the leading edge of their profession.
A portfolio and creative activities were appreciated in school achievement in one of the literary zeniths of education in the class manual. This can be a means to prepare a resume to apply for department businesses; however, these businesses will have a high professional standard. Not any person that applies will be given a job of high demand and experience. They will need to show their talent, skill, and diligence, and they will be paid with a competitive wage.
I have no idea how this will change middle schools, but this establishment is a controversial situation. Perhaps middle school can be a beginning of the preparation of their portfolio of works, practicing skills; a more focused purpose of education, as they may be gave an entry level job their freshman year of high school.
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