101+Agenda+-+9.11.13

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome and Introduction
 * Notetaker: Sarah

Goals for Today:
 * Describe the five historical themes of American Education
 * Research historical artifacts in order to gain an overarching picture of American education over the past several centuries.

Announcements:
 * 15 hours are required for service learning
 * Fixing the links on the GoogleDocs learning log

9:15 - 9:45 - Introduction to Purposes of Schooling


 * Why do we have bells that go off at the end of class in secondary schools?
 * It signals the transition from class to class or lunch
 * Teachers had bells in a one room school house to communicate with people far away with old technology.
 * Churches had bells that communicated "time to go to church", and schools used the same system
 * Industrial Revolution: Factories. There are certain ways of organizing people to create efficiency, and order. Factories used bells to signal shift change etc.
 * The idea of a bell is deeply rooted in a social context that has a historical story.
 * Why do we care?
 * Using bells could imply students and teachers are on an assembly line
 * Enter into field of education with open minds and open hearts and have a sense of what is going on
 * Does what I think has to happen REALLY have to happen? EX: six year olds must be in the same classroom
 * Better positioned to interpret what is happening in school and make better decisions
 * Five Themes
 * Evolving curriculum (what should be taught)
 * Who gets taught? (inclusion/exclusion)
 * Everyone can find a seat, but is it a good education
 * Who should teach? (teacher preparation and professionalization)
 * Who is teaching? Clergy, men, and now women. How did that happen? Consequences? Pay structures? What qualifies a teacher? Seniority?
 * How to teach? (methods of teaching; traditional/progressive pendulum)
 * Where is the teacher? What is behind the teacher? Not much has changed. Lecture based. Ex: Math Wars.
 * Why school? (purposes of schooling)
 * Is it for the individual? Is it for the greater good?
 * How to think? Or what to think?
 * What kind of world do we want?
 * Artifact Project

9:45 - 9:50 - Closure


 * To Do:**
 * Finish your artifact project
 * On Thursday, we will share highlights from your educational autobiographies