TCH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bill Ayers
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Why a mystery: very complex, very challenging, human endeavor, different kinds of interpretations, not a black & white topic, many questions, paradigm needs to change, sometimes rules need to be bent to do the right thing. Teaching is: an intellectual and ethical enterprise, a vocation, very matter-of-fact, helping others to acquire knowledge, teaching is a calling, practical and transcendent, challenging endeavor. Journey begins in challenge: a creative act, mystery, surprise, and discovery, examining something new for the first time, learning from the students as well, parallels between great acting and teaching. Intellectual knowledge, understanding: creative experiential, ethics, culture, dispositions, values, behaviors. Schools have a set of core values. Problem solving skills: goes across all academic disciplines. Important for everyone to have: ayers repeatedly states he needs to help children become problem solvers through experiences, life skill. To teach: the journey in comics william ayers.
