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For Thursday, Feb. 7th, Read through Chapter 3-Democratic Citizenship Education. Take a look at the Key Concepts found on page 70, Democratic Citizenship, Allegiance, Deliberation, Voting, Community Service and Action, Citizenship Knowledge, Democratic Values, and Democratic Dispositions and Virtues, understand what these terms are. Use a reading strategy to read this part of the chapter. I dont expect you to read the entire chapter but I do want you to understand the Key Concepts that are being presented. Also on page 70, the authors give a great example of what Democratic Education looks in the classroom under Picture This.
After reading, respond to the Reflection question found on page 87, put your answer on the blog comment section below. Post by 12:55 pm on Thursday Feb. 7th.
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I definitely had to think long and hard about this one hoping that I could come up with simple but important topics that would engage the students to deliberate. The "You can't say, "You can't play" was a perfect example. I definitely liked how the fourth grade students advised to start that rule in kindergarten because they would believe that, that is a rule. Other ideas that I could think of were for the older grades which could introduce and exercise an interest in debate, topics such as the legal age of attaining a driver’s permit and the stipulations of having a licensed driver in the vehicle. Another topic that I could think of was, working with partners other than your best friend.
ReplyDeleteAs far as rules, I couldn’t really think of any good topics. I guess I was kind of hoping that my colleagues would spring out ideas. I also liked the topic and idea of being “fair.” Also, the decision tree was helpful until I started to make sense of it, I ended up confusing myself. So with that, I was more stumped on coming up with other rules that would be great topics. It could be that I am over-thinking this assignment. Coming up with appropriate topics was my challenge. I do understand that the topic should be something meaningful to the student but my question was, “Which topics could I use?”
When I pondered this question I tried to think of an idea outside of the box to implement for a discussion. The idea that I had come to terms with was maybe "should students be paid to learn?, if you should be paid to learn should you also pay for incentives?" (E.g. Recess, using the restroom, getting a drink). It lets the students think about earning an income and also luxury expenses. Would it be fair to all students? How would all students earn money? These are a few things that could be discussed with the class?
ReplyDeleteThe rule that jumped in my head right away was about cell phones in the classroom. Even as college students we are not allowed to use our cell phones in class. The age of someone having a cell phone is getting younger and younger every year. I know a lot of students in elementary are already bringing cell phones to school.
ReplyDeleteI think this topic could bring up a lot of good ideas and discussion. Students can come up with pros and cons for having a cell phone in the classroom or school. Students can also think of ideas how to use cell phones in education. I think as a teacher you can have fun with this topic and I know the students would be engaged and eager to come up with questions and answers