Introduction
Brother Magleby is my teacher for a foundational Education Class. He wants us
to have a metaphor for us to not lose vision of what an educator is all about.
His personal metaphor goes along with a parable. He told of a couple of
students of his. One takes principles of learning from his class in a form of
logs, filling a storage shed until he beginning his career. In his career, he
lights these logs, sharing the light with his students with a burning fire; however,
he finds that he runs out of logs.
The second student takes the principles of his class in a form of a tree,
bidding them to take care of it. The tree grows as he approaches his
profession. He learns to make the skill of his profession to be fruitful. In
his classes he shares his fruits and the seeds to his students, and they find
that it is tasty and desirable.
He encouraged it to be a subject of a singular idea. This activity
should have deep roots in our life as his metaphor has, so I will be adding to
this post continually often for a long period of time at least for this
semester. There are four parts to the metaphor. There will be an explanation of
the metaphor, an example of teach by the pattern of teaching by doctrines,
principles, and tools. In addition to an example, we are to answer seven
fundamental question. Apply the teaching of the class to the Initial Metaphor,
we will list doctrines and principles that our motivations are based on.
I will explain the pattern of teaching now with doctrines,
principles, and application. Doctrines come from the description of the
Godhead, Plan of Salvation, and the Atonement of Christ, and Principles are the
expectations that are rooted in the knowledge of the doctrine.
One doctrine of the Atonement of Christ is that our Savior has atoned for sins
of the whole family of Adam; therefore, we need to make it possible that all
people can receive the covenants and ordinances of the Gospel. The salvation of
all man is people through Christ. This is why God has restored his temples on
the Earth that these ordinances can be performed for all man. We have a lot of
work to do to map out our genealogy in order to find and let our ancestors
chose to receive the ordinances of Salvation such as Baptism of Immersion and
the receiving of the Gift of the Holy Ghost by the Laying on of Hands. People
cannot be saved; unless, they receive these covenants of Faith and repentance.
Children, who have died before the age of accountability, are saved by the
grace of the atonement. A tool to help you receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ
is Mormon.org, a place where many resources
are found of curious people.
Faith, covenants, genealogy work, temple work, and repentance are examples of
principles. If you say that you need to be baptized to someone in order to be
saved as the only reason to teach concerning this necessary ordinance. People
may do it, but they may not know the deep that it has in the Gospel. The
immersion is symbolic of work the perfect man and a member of the Godhead, the
Only Begotten of our Father in Heaven. God the Father raised all of us
spiritually before we are born in the flesh. Since we were spirits, we could
not enjoy eternal life as God the Father, for he in an immortal man. He called
all of us together when it was most opportune to initiate the beginning of the
Plan of Salvation, where we will need to live in mortality. In this life we
will need to learn how to live the Gospel by our choice and find grace by
living up to the expectations of God. Jehovah of the Old Testament was chosen
in this gathering to be our savior by dying for us and performing the atonement
that we may be forgiven and pure as we were born. The Baptism of immersion is
symbolic of this because we are bared in the water and pulled out a new
creature as Christ took up his life again after his death. Jesus Christ, the
mortal name in the New Testament of Jehovah, is the only person which can
accomplish this because of his purity in perfection, and he was blessed to be
born of, the mortal, Mary and Heavenly Father as his literal father. Our Savior
can take up his life upon his own well because of this blessing. Baptism of
Immersion in the water can also be significant because the water symbolic of a
cleansing, a promise of living the covenant. This is an example of
teaching the principle of Baptism.
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My Initial Metaphor is a Professional
Long-distance Endurance Runner.
The Doctrine is represented by the person and his mental strength.
The Principle is represented by his work and preparation to be the greatest.
The Application or Tools that he has are represented by the workout plans and
the varies means to accomplish his goals.
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The Pattern
An example of using the teaching pattern will be
shown hereafter. I will teach the principle of Enduring to the End. The
doctrine is the Godhead. God is one, and his nature is eternal never-changing
and perfection; therefore, we need to be enduring as his nature to life his
lifestyle, which is perfect. God gives us many tools to endure to the end such
as faith building commandments from paying tithing, communing with God with
prayer and feasting on his word, and consistently being faithful to keep our
covenants by partaking of the sacrament and attending the temple. With these
tools and principles we can come to know God and prepare to live in his kingdom,
for only those that are pure as he is can be attempted into his kingdom and
presence.
Doctrines and Principles that I espouse:
(Doctrines
are written in Arial, and Principles are written in Times)
Godhead
Follow the pattern of teaching of Doctrine, Principles, and Application
- Elder Bednar
Understand the philosophies of Man
·
I learned
in the philosophy section of the class that most people have different
philosophies; therefore, we should respect that especially when working at an
individual level. You can run an organization by your own personal
philosophy.
- The following philosophies
were exposed in the class..
- These are applied to
education
- Social Reconstructionism
- Solving the social
questions of the day.
- Theodore
Brameld (1904-1987)
- Behaviorism/Essentialism
- The belief
that there are common knowledge that is morally essential, and the
learning is structured
- Read,
write, speak, and compute clearly and logically.
- hard
work, respect for authority
- become
valuable members
- William
Bagley (1934), James D. Koerner (1959), H. G. Rickover (1959), Paul
Copperman (1978), and Theodore Sizer (1985).
- Perennialism
- The belief of teaching
the unchanging truths of the foundation of civilization.
- Robert
Maynard Hutchins (1963) and Mortimer Adler
- Progressivism
- Focuses on the child’s
being, pushing his limits by the practice of the scientific method.
- Existentialism
- Figuring out what is
best for the individual
- Soren
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
- These are the general
origin of the philosophy
- Idealism
- Teaches the eternal
truths of life
- Realism
- Studies the world, by
the scientific method
- Neo Thomism
- Combines the practice of
realism with the learning of the truths of idealism
- Pragmatism
- Does not value the
learning of theory, but trusts the learning of real life experience.
- Charles
Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
- Work at a school that follows
the same philosophy as yours
- Discover your philosophy
Understand the psychology of man
·
I learned
from psychology is fundamental to education, for it makes learning natural from
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
View people as not limited in potential
·
Another
value that I learned from Pestalozzi is to practice the cultivation of the
inner capacity of a person.
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Practice
the principle of multiple intelligences.
- Both Jean Anyon and Imani
Perry noticed a different attitude in lower class schools and affluent
schools.
- This attitude gave a
self-reliant learning and problem solving
- Don’t limit the
opportunities of students
- Expose them to a broad
amount of perspectives and opportunities of the world.
- The growth of intelligence is
at a set pace for each individual.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Respect and
work with IEPs
- “Social
interaction are the first to be developed before academic basics
- Don’t make
accommodations for children with learning disabilities a fight
- Appreciate the presence
of special needs children. Let the school thrive of them.
- Seek to understand
the perspective of parents and students”
- Wisdom from a
special educational administrator.
Heavenly Father
·
Foster
belonging
o John Dewey
·
Develop a
Fatherly nature
o
Pestalozzi
also taught that the family should be obligated to teach their children
o
Respect
child develop theories, understanding their needs and perspectives
- Imani Perry felt like she
did not belong at either public or private school because she felt off
racially.
- Understand the isolation
that can be felt by youth.
- Instruct in the zone of
proximal development
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- Continually Seek a proper
vision of education
- Jean Anyon saw that the
vision of education is inadequate, so I want to have the best vision of
education
- Teach social skills
Jesus Christ
·
Abide the
Law (LDS Article of Faith number twelve)
·
Be an
example and on the leading edge of my skill
o
According
to Imai Perry, the teachers were on the leading edge of their field of study,
expounding it unto their students
·
Have
Problem Solving attitude/Problem posing education
·
Sacrifice
and Consecrate my life to teach
·
Stand
in defense of truth and virtue
- Child
Protection Act of 2012
- Seek Christ-like
Attributes.
- Faith in Jesus
Christ
- The enabling
power of the belief of Christ
- Hope
- A nature of
faith that blessings will be fulfilled
- Charity and
Love
- Obtain the
pure love of Christ
- Virtue
- Knowledge
- An attitude of
development by acquiring knowledge
- Patience
- “the capacity
to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming
angry, frustrated, or anxious”
- Humility
- “willingness
to submit to the will of the Lord and to give the Lord the honor for
what is accomplished.”
- Diligence
- “steady,
consistent, earnest, and energetic effort in doing the Lord’s work.”
- Obedience
- “keep the
commandments willingly… and to follow the counsel of your leaders.”
- Chapter 6:
Christlike Attributes of Preach My Gospel
- Have a
relationship as a teacher that is instructive at a personal level.
- The nature of
the parables of Christ.
- Modify teaching
to the each individual
- Idaho Standards
of Initial Certification of Professional School Personnel
- Have leadership
skills
- Classroom
Motivation and Management skills
- Collaborate
with Colleagues, Parents, Members of the Community
- Idaho
Standards of Initial Certification of Professional School Personnel
Holy Ghost
·
Be
Professional
o
Seek not
to declare my word, but first seek to obtain my word, and then shall your
tongue be loosed; then, if you desire, you shall have my Spirit and my word,
yea, the power of God unto the convincing of men. (D&C 11:21)
·
Be
Current
o 88:78 Teach ye
diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more
perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in
all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to
understand;
o 88:79 Of things both
in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things
which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home,
things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the
judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms.
(Doctrine and Covenants)
·
Teach for
understanding (Isaiah 28: 9-10)
o
A whole
section of the class is devoted to this cause, saying this is the means by the
following tools.
§ Generative Topics
- They are interesting instructive
subjects.
§ Through-lines/Understanding Goals
§ Performances of Understanding
§ Ongoing Assessment
·
Continually
improve my curriculum
o
o
28:9 Whom
shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them
that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
o
28:10 For
precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon
line; here a little, and there a little - Isaiah
·
Teach in
the moment
Plan of Salvation
Pre-mortal Life
Creation
·
Be
knowledgeable of the world from the beginning learn all aspects of it in theory
and application
·
Education
makes raw material into innovating industry.
- Horace Mann
- “Education creates or
develops new treasures; treasures not before possessed or dreamed of by
any one.”
Fall of Adam and the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
·
Teach and
live up to integrity's expectations
·
practice,
teach, make habit of the higher order of thinking
o
Steven
Wolk criticized heavily the worksheet education of many public
schools, for they were teaching the students that learning revolved around
completing.
- Decide what is right.
Moroni 7:19
- Bloom’s
Taxonomy unto higher order of thinking
- Remembering
- Understanding
- Applying
- Analyzing
- Evaluating
- Creating
- Don’t get boggled with the
details and precision of expectations, but focus more on thought and idea
processes.
- Socialized education saves
children from this cruel world
- Forsake the natural man (Mosiah
3:19)
- The natural man is the
natural tendencies to be angry, jealous, hate, envy, lust, and so forth.
Mortality (imperfection and the imminent death)
·
Be an
example of remembering what is important
·
Be
connected with the community, teaching from real life experiences.
o
I see
that this is important to develop confidence and skill in social life exemplary
in the organization of the Madison High School in Rexburg. They were highly
professional. The community were greatly involved in the production insomuch
that provided funds for cable in order to pick up the performers for the effect
of flying or floating, and they also
- Reforms would ultimately rely
on teachers
- Teachers are accountable
for the learning of the student. - Jean Anyon
- Seek higher education. Don’t
be satisfied with skill, work, and money.
- The common core
standards:
- Are aligned
with college and workforce expectations;
- Are clear,
understandable, and consistent;
- Include
rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills;
- Build upon
strengths and lessons of current state standards;
- Are informed by
standards in other top performing countries, so that all students are
prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and
- Are
evidence-based.
·
Respect
the centralized standard and abilities of the nation’s education has been given
by President Johnson.
Christ's Earthly Ministry
·
Make new
structures that education practices can improve (a corporate model)
- Jean Anyon believes new
structures are the means to change the foundation of education.
- Work at a local level,
making adaptations at a local level
- Superintendents and
principles should give up “absolute power”
- Retain a role of
instructional leadership and motivational role
- Give children control of
his work in education
- Have a personal relationship
with your students. Let student teacher contact abound.
- Imani Perry felt this lack
at a public school.
- Education unites, stabilizes
nations, raising the standard of living.
Atonement
·
Believe
everyone can change by learning, if they will it
Resurrection, Second Coming of Christ and his millennial reign
·
Don’t be
a political teacher.
o
Don’t
play the politics, for it is a sign of weakness.
§
Jean
Anyon
Judgment
·
Be an
instructor of Justice
o
Amos, the
bible prophet is famous for being an instructor of social justice,
- Implement discipline
- Justice and conciliation has
a reforming influence.
Kingdoms
of Glory, Immortality, and Eternal Life
·
Eternal
Marriage
o
Family
units is a greatest opportunity for education with the father and mother
§ Jean Jacques Rousseau
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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.
