SO YOU WANT TO BE A
TEACHER
An overview of schooling in America
By: Amanda Cooper, Colby Bowman, Theodore Baer
Social Capital and how it relates to
education
• In the context of education, social capital is in the form of what the parental
expectations, obligations, and social networks that do exist within the family, the school,
and the community.
• Also, the disciplinary standards the school holds for all
students.
• Academic requirements the school expects of their students.
• Cultural norms and values that the school has to better
support the students and all the different diversities.
A quote from the text Old Deluder Satan Law
“It being one chief point of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of Scriptures, as in
former times, by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading them from
the use of tongues that so at last the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false
glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, that learning might not be buried in the graves of our fathers, in
church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavours…”
• The purpose of the 1647 Old Deluder Satan Act was because people were ignorant and the
way to fix this or change it was to educate the ignorance out of them.
• Established the first schools that promoted secular knowledge.
• Important shift for people in America as well, that use to resent knowledge and reasoning to
thriving in it.
• A tradition that started back in 2000 was brought to the attention of The Supreme Court on May
20, 2013. Is that two High Schools in Brookfield, Wisconsin were holding their graduation
ceremonies in the Sanctuary of Elmbrook Church which is an evangelical congregation.
• Nine people which consist of former and current students and their families did not feel
comfortable with the religious symbolism and significance of the church itself.
• The district stopped using the Church for their graduation ceremonies.
JUNIOR HIGH
VS.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
• Subject-centered
• Student-oriented
• Emphasis is on cognitive development
• Emphasis is on both cognitive and affective
development
• Organizes teachers in subject-based departments
• Traditional instruction dominates
• Six to eight class periods per day
• Provides academic classes
• Offers study hall and/or homeroom
• Classrooms arranged randomly or by subject or
grade level
• Organizes teachers and students in
interdisciplinary teams
• Experiential approaches to instruction
• Allows for block and flexible scheduling
• Provides exploratory, academic, and
nonacademic classes
• Offers advisor/advisee, teacher/student
opportunities
• Team classrooms in close proximity
They let the numbers and research do the talking…
Talking points: Talk about the graph and what they are looking at.
 Mr. Washington was the first head of the colored schools.
 Strived to have African American teachers become selfreliant.
 Wanted African Americans to acquire practical vocational
skills.
Catherine Beecher
 Two people helped contribute to education as
teachers, Catherine Beecher
and Booker T. Washington.
 Mrs. Beecher helped to open a all female school,
Hartford Female Seminary
 Believed that the natural advancement of a
females role in a
society was, becoming a teacher.
Booker T. Washington
• According to Donald G. Nicolas of Education Week, “I have heard assertions that more
must be done to increase the number of black educators.” (2014).
• Black folks make up the jobs of “custodians, food-service employees and,
transportation workers.” (Nicolas 2014).
• They make up only two percent of our country's teachers.
• In 2011-12 82 percent of teachers were white.
• How can we change this as educators?
Inclusion
We want to educate students with
Disabilities in regular classrooms
With non-disabled students.
 Full Inclusion:
 Student is placed within a
classroom with other
nondisabled students.
 Partial Inclusion:
 When students with
disabilities are placed within
the classroom for some of the
day and not fully integrated.
 Self-contained:
 Are just for studetns with
disabilities with little to
no interaction with the
outside.
• Maxine Greene and Hohn Dewey valued the arts.
• Both believed students need to learn practical techniques.
• Did not think a teacher should be an overbearing dictator.
• Sought out to expand the horizons of expression such as:
COLONIAL PERIOD
• Latin Grammar Schools
• The more north you were the better the education.
• Hardly any schools in the south. Most were taught by tutors.
• The north had many schools; however, most were religious.
• If you were not male, white, and rich your education was crippled.
• Most females did basic school work, then went home and tended to their chores.
• African American had little to no schooling.
o A public tax-supported elementary school.
o Started during the 1820s in Massachusetts.
o Horace Mann, an advocate for the common
school is considered, “father of the public
school.” (Koch 63).
o Mann knew that civic virtues were important.
 Centralized the way folks were taugh and who was taught.
 The state controls what is taught.
 Interaction among other students.
 Not everything has to be academic.
Lard Ordinance Act
“Old Deluder and Northwest
Ordinance set aside First Normal
Satan” Act
School
land for public
schools
First Latin
Grammar
School
Franklins
Academy
First
Common
School
First
attendance
law
High Scools
grow
High School
curriculum
revised
First junior
high school
Cardinal
Principles of
Secondary
Ed.
Democracy and
Education
Development
of middle
schools
Brown v,
board of
Education
Title IX
Elementary
and
Secondary Ed.
Act
A Nation at
Risk
No Child
Left Behind
Act
Education for all Academic disciplines
standards published
Handicapped
Children Act
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES
Essentialism
Progressivism
 Well rounded.
 Use real-life experiences to teach.
 Be a role model.
 Use active learning
 Communicate clearly the
knowledge you have.
 Have students apply their
knowledge from the classromm
Perennialism
 Keep alive the ideas found in
works of literature and art.
 Lecture more
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES
Social Reconstruction
Existentialism
 Necessity of change.
 Students chose what they want to study
 Promote social and political aspects in
school.
 Teachers help students figure out what
their intrests are.
 Have students think about social
injustice. Think critically.
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
Elementary and
Secondary Ed. Act of
1965
Brown v. Board of
Education
•
Supreme Court ruled unanimously
that separate schools for whites
and blacks was inherently
unequal.
•
Schools were no longer
segregated.
•
Made the most extensive federal
financing of schools in America
possible.
Bilingual Education
Acts of 1968 and 1974
•
Provided supplemental funding
for school districts to establish
programs for large numbers of
children that could not speak
English very well.
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT
• Called for states to develop content area standards
• Annual testing of math and reading in grades three-six.
• Schools now with poor test results face the possibility of being closed.
• Parents have better choices where to send their kids to school.
CONCLUSION
• Education has evolved from the one classroom setting to hundreds of rooms where
students have the ability to learn more than ever before.
• Students have the technology to succeed and do not have to deal with the social
inequality that ran rampant through the United States in the 1960s.
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