For this post I looked a an article that explains how a teacher could teach the core subjects while also integrating high-level thinking about current social issues that students should be well informed in. It says that it's important for students to be well informed about the issues that may direct or indirectly affect their lives after high school. It's important to enforce your own views in these discussions. It's better for students to learn for themselves how to be well informed on an issue and learn how to defend their own position on said issue.
The article also said that we as teachers and also school districts need to need to change the way we look at social issues in the classroom. The article talked about how social justice issue have often been excluded from conversations in school. Often times it was because teachers don't value those discussions or don't understand how to go about starting those discussions. It's important for when a teacher wants to start a discussion about a social issue that the classroom be a safe, respectful place for everyone to participate. There seems to be a stigma with speaking about more specific things that involve race, gender, and class in our society, so by encouraging students to be well informed at a young age and learn to talk about it with others it would greatly help the discourse that we are currently having in our society.
I think it's also important to teach students to look at issues objectively. Sometimes people how opinions on things that they are not well informed about. This is where learning how to properly research would come in handy.
This also allows for students to learn how to disagree with each other and learn how to work through that. The article continued saying that it's important that students see each other as co-learners rather than competitors. This also just goes with learning how to work with others and making the classroom more collaborative than individual.
The article also said that we as teachers and also school districts need to need to change the way we look at social issues in the classroom. The article talked about how social justice issue have often been excluded from conversations in school. Often times it was because teachers don't value those discussions or don't understand how to go about starting those discussions. It's important for when a teacher wants to start a discussion about a social issue that the classroom be a safe, respectful place for everyone to participate. There seems to be a stigma with speaking about more specific things that involve race, gender, and class in our society, so by encouraging students to be well informed at a young age and learn to talk about it with others it would greatly help the discourse that we are currently having in our society.
I think it's also important to teach students to look at issues objectively. Sometimes people how opinions on things that they are not well informed about. This is where learning how to properly research would come in handy.
This also allows for students to learn how to disagree with each other and learn how to work through that. The article continued saying that it's important that students see each other as co-learners rather than competitors. This also just goes with learning how to work with others and making the classroom more collaborative than individual.
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