LA LECTURE 29/07/11 T3W1 Wed Questions! Why education? What do you hope to achieve?

What is the purpose of going to school? Purpose of Education moulding the future of our nation? (Consider! are you sure this is why we educate people?) Should a country mould students? Should a student mould students? Should a teacher mould students? A teacher who makes a difference: helps students to find their way or is he helping them find HIS way? Conformity(traditions, values) VS Choice (FREEDOM~~~, who are you? individual voices) Do they contradict each other? are they mutually exclusive? Single-sex Education Issues: Case Study of NYGH: set up in 1917 by Sun Yat Sen belief in education for girls 1. Is the single-sex school STILL RELEVANT today? 2. Are all-womens schools SUCCESSFUL in PREPARING WOMEN FOR LIFE? 3. Do they DISADVANTAGE women in any way? 4. Have they changes in the past 50 years? US Education system (general): junior high: 12-14 high school: 15-18 post sec: degree/graduate program (masters only) post grad: professional degree All womens education: convent/school run by nuns finishing school- training to be good wives Wellesley est 1875 - top all womens college (liberal arts curriculum) famous peeps: Hillary Rodham, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright Note: research wellesley college (compare 1953-period of conformity [after WWII society needed to rebalance, men came back, women were empowered before when they were gone. national agenda to keep women at home] and 2002), the Suffrage movement, feminist movement,

education was viewed merely as a stopgap before marrying a man LA NOTES 30/07/11 T3W1 Thur The Ideal Student: Confident Articulate Poised Enthusiastic Formulate your school with the mission/view in mind. Catergories for assessments 1. formative and summative 2. objective and subjective 3. referencing (criterion-referenced, norm-referenced, and ipsative) 4. informal and formal. http://www.funderstanding.com/google-search?cx=partner-pub6553421918056260%3Aarmz8yts3ql&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-88591&q=assessment&siteurl=www.funderstanding.com%2Fcategory%2Flearning-managementsystems#1078

Aware - feel Enable - imagine Empower - do

And I uncovered, that if learning is embedded in real-world context, that if you blur the boundaries between school and life,then children go through a journey of aware, where they can see the change, enable, be changed, and then empower, lead the change. And that directly increased student wellbeing. Children became more competent, and less helpless. But this was all common sense.