M. Susie Whittington

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Education in an Age of Change

• Chapter 1
• M. Susie Whittington
• Associate Professor

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Chapter 1Interest Approach
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Chapter 1Objectives

• Identify basic questions related to education
• Describe realities teachers face daily
• Point out characteristics that add to complexity
  of teachers responsibilities

• Explain how changes related to characteristics of
  learners, knowledge about teaching and learning,
  views of educations purposes, curriculum
  standards, and demands for learner and teacher
  accountability affect teachers work today

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Chapter 1Competing Views of Educational Quality

• Ideas about educational improvement vary
  enormously
• Challenge as educator to distinguish between
  legitimate prospects and dubious propositions
  with little potential

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Social
• What should be taught?
• Evolution?
• Who should be taught?
• Free and mandatory public education?

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Philosophical
• Development of the whole person

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Historical
• Problem-Solving teaching

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Political
• No Child Left Behind

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Curriculum
• New vision for undergraduate education

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Instructional
• High-stakes testing
• Ohio Graduation Test
• 4th grade proficiencies

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Chapter 1What are the Foundations?

• Legal
• Rights and responsibilities of teachers and
  learners

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Chapter 1A Day in the Life of a Teacher

• Planning lessons
• Record keeping/administrative duties
• Participating in school events
• Serving on various committees
• Participating in professional group activities
• Communicating with parents and guardians

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Chapter 1The Complexity of Teaching

• Multidimensionality
• Broad array of duties
• Simultaneity
• All-at-once in the classroom
• Immediacy
• Respond at once!
• Unpredictability
• Learners AND circumstances
• Publicness
• Everyone knows your business
• History
• Unique culture of the class

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Chapter 1Coping with Selected Changes

• Changes in learner population
• Males and females
• Hispanic populations
• Changes in theories of teaching and learning
• Constructivism
• Multiple Intelligences
• Debates regarding purposes of education
• Comprehensive vs Vocational?

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Chapter 1Coping with Selected Changes

• Standards-based education
• Performance-based
• Accountability
• Living in accountability
• Efforts to assure quality of new teachers
• Praxis I, II, III

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Chapter 1Review the Objectives

• Identify basic questions related to education
• Describe realities teachers face daily
• Point out characteristics that add to complexity
  of teachers responsibilities

• Explain how changes related to characteristics of
  learners, knowledge about teaching and learning,
  views of educations purposes, curriculum
  standards, and demands for learner and teacher
  accountability affect teachers work today

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Chapter 1Activity

• Schools reflect society, and changes in society
  influence education. What do you see as two or
  three changes that are occurring in society that
  will have an important impact on schools and
  education? What impact do you think they will
  have?

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Groups

• 1 Amanda, Hilary, Tim
• 2 Heather, Brooke, Lee
• 3 Katy, Stacy, Chad

• 4 Mesha, Kristin, John
• 5 Nathan A, Mary Beth, Meredith, Kevin
• 6 Rose, Joe, Nathan M.

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Chapter 1Closing Reflection

• On the back of your activity page, write 1
  potential MULTIPLE CHOICE test question PER GROUP!