Treasures

I really like the idea of getting treasures from what we read, do and hear in class.  Ever since Zalika brought this idea up I have been trying to use it all of our classes.  One seems to always remember the important items in class but the concept of treasuring what is important to you is empowering.  I want my future classrooms to take treasures away with them.  

On the surface the yardstick and theories book seem like easy reads, not much to them, but when you dive under the surface there is information in them that will easily help me along my teaching path.  I have not studied the developmental theorists before and to get an over view was a great way to approach the topic.  But what I will treasure from the development discussion is the small break out groups and how everyone took an active part in teaching the others in the group.  I learned more about each theorist from this discussion than I did from just the text alone.  

We have been reading about critical theory and the history of schools in ED 550.  I am amazed about how we have not learned through our history but are prone to make the same mistakes over and over.  How do we get out of the rut that we have fallen into and start making some changes?  This critical questioning is an amazing treasure that we have be given.  I hope that we can take our ideas and begin to help shape the change that we all want in our education system.

My favorite treasure has been on that inspired me to apply to Lewis and Clark and it was the philosophy that by going through this program we are going to become agents of change.  I believe that by becoming this change agent the schools that we eventually get jobs in will be the better for it and the children we end up teaching will in turn be inspired to become an agent for change in their world.