Thinking About Schools: some resources
I’ve been teaching a course to pre-service B.Ed. students – Schools and Education. I basically have a lot of room to “do my thing” and really just get students to challenge their set values, beliefs and preconceptions about what is school and what is an “education”. I can rant and rave but more often challenge them with questions that they find their own answer to.
I thought it would be useful to share some of the links I recommend to students through the blackboard we use (admittedly many are Canadian since that is where I teach). So here you go. Lots of great pickings to get your own brain, your own juices thinking differently about school and education. And we must, we must never become entrenched and cornered into a set idea, a set paradigm. Education itself is always moving, always changing. We need teachers who realize this and act with this in mind. Never stay still, keep moving ……..
General Reading
Freire – The Future of School http://www.papert.org/articles/freire/freirePart1.html
Freire – 4th Letter / Letter to my teacher. Qualities
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/legacy/research/freire/pk.html?cms_page=freire/pk.html
Summerhill, O’Neill, Forward by Eric Fromm.
Teaching As A Subversive Activity, Postman and Weingarten.
After Deschooling, Ivan Illich
James Baldwin – A talk to teachers. Race. http://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm
Law: Myers vs Peel board of ed. Negligence. http://scc.lexum.org/en/1981/1981scr2-21/1981scr2-21.html
Brown, A., Legal handbook for educators, 6th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2009)
Watkinson, Education, Students rights and the charter. Chpt 5.
Negotiating power in the classroom: Briskin http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/8766/7943
http://www.ucalgary.ca/dtoolkit/bibliography
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Teacher: Selected Writings.
http://www.youblisher.com/p/118604-The-unbearable-lightness-of-being-a-teacher/
Links/blogs/online references
Advice for teachers L.Ferlazzo list – http://t.co/PGHlRjv
Mike Rose graduation speech – http://bit.ly/nXvFZ0
How to prevent another da vinci – http://wanderingink.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/how-to-prevent-another-leonardo-da-vinci/
Kyle. My education poem – http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/my-education
Cosby Speech – http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/bill-cosbys-life-lesson
Teacher Talk Best posts: https://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2011/08/29/bests-posts-2010-2011
Ira Socol: http://speedchange.blogspot.com
Uninspired Teacher – http://uninspiredteacher.blogspot.com
Stephen Dowes http://www.downes.ca/
Joe Bower http://www.joebower.org/
Clay Burrell – http://beyond-school.org/
Larry Ferlazzo – Best advice to new teachers. http://bit.ly/pFo2Jj
CEA – http://www.cea-ace.ca/blog
David Wees – http://davidwees.com
David Warlich – 2 cents worth – http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/
George Couros – Princples of change – http://georgecouros.ca/blog/
Chris Wejr – http://mrwejr.edublogs.org
Social Networking
Can Educators on LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4052478&trk=anet_ug_grppro
Canadian Educators on Twitter – http://twitter.com/#!/davidwees/canadian-educator/members
Unplugged Cnd Educators – http://www.unplugd.ca/index.html
Podcasts:
The purpose of education: CBC roundtable.
http://www.cbc.ca/informationmorningns/2011/04/the-purpose-of-education.html
John Taylor Gatto – Letter to my granddaughter. Unschooling.
http://huffduffer.com/eflclassroom/33588
What makes a great teacher? How to know?
https://ddeubel.edublogs.org/files/2010/11/What-makes-a-great-teacher-13p3zjh.mp3
Videos:
Ken Robinson: Your Element http://vimeo.com/9842035
Benjamin Zander: Ted. http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion.html
Viktor Frankl http://community.eflclassroom.com/video/mans-search-for-meaning
Krashen: Poverty and education http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLcootlU9lc
Hall Dennis revisited. http://bit.ly/phfYNS
TVO roundtable-one size fits all? http://bit.ly/oCK5pz
Yourvoice – Is school essential to your child’s learning? http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoparents/index.cfm?page_id=483&event_id=1485
Your Voice – The Classroom Mirror. Do schools reflect reality/diversity? http://bit.ly/npLimf
Africentric Schools? – http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/africentric-culturecentric
Finne Cherian: Best University lecturer Ontario – Reflections on Schooling. Unbinding baby elephants
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?video11429 – reflections
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?video11066 – lecture
TVO : What makes a great teacher. Roundtable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXaLGt460e4
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