Education

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Education

• Moral Dimensions, Purpose of Education, and
  Levels of Learning

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Education

• What is education?
• Education is the development of individuals'
  capacity to be productive members of society, by
  teaching and learning specific knowledge,
  beliefs, and skills.

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• Leaders of this Church have repeatedly emphasized
  the importance of education. It is a vital
  component of wisdom. Not long after the pioneers
  began construction of their temple in Illinois,
  they established the University of the City of
  Nauvoo.

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• Scriptures teach that the glory of God is
  intelligence. (DC 9336.) They also teach that
  individual intelligences were organized before
  the world was. (Abr. 322.) Man was also in the
  beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of
  truth, was not created or made, neither indeed
  can be. (DC 9329.)

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• Where shall wisdom be found? (Job 2812.)

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Blooms Taxonomy
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Understa
nding Knowledge
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• In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of
  educational psychologists who developed a
  classification of levels of intellectual behavior
  important in learning. Bloom found that over 95
  of the test questions students encounter require
  them to think only at the lowest possible
  level...the recall of information.
• Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive
  domain, from the simple recall or recognition of
  facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly
  more complex and abstract mental levels, to the
  highest order which is classified as evaluation.

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• 1. Knowledge arrange, define, duplicate,
  label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize,
  relate, recall, repeat, reproduce state.
• 2. Comprehension classify, describe, discuss,
  explain, express, identify, indicate, locate,
  recognize, report, restate, review, select,
  translate,
• 3. Application apply, choose, demonstrate,
  dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret,
  operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use,
  write.
• 4. Analysis analyze, appraise, calculate,
  categorize, compare, contrast, criticize,
  differentiate, discriminate, distinguish,
  examine, experiment, question, test.
• 5. Synthesis arrange, assemble, collect,
  compose, construct, create, design, develop,
  formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare,
  propose, set up, write.
• 6. Evaluation appraise, argue, assess,
  attach, choose compare, defend estimate, judge,
  predict, rate, core, select, support, value,
  evaluate.

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• Learning process
• Information gt Knowledge gt Understanding gtWisdom
• What can you give/ provide?
• What are the essential traits of the process?

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Moral Dimensions

• Education is a moral endeavor, a stand that
  places a unique responsibility for the
  development and learning of children, youth, and
  adults, on teachers.
• A moral foundation for education is essential,
• Teaching is a moral action because other humans
  are involved and within teaching there are
  meaningful contributions to humans.
• Richard Williams
• http//education.byu.edu/moral_dimensions/richard_
  williams.html

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8 Moral Dimensions

• Enculturating the young in a social and political
  democracy
• Foster in the nations young the skills,
  dispositions, and knowledge necessary for
  effective participation in a social and political
  democracy
• Providing access to knowledge for all children
  and youth
• Ensure that the young have access to those
  understandings and skills required for satisfying
  and responsible lives
• Practicing a nurturing pedagogy (the art and
  science of teaching)
• Develop educators who nurture the learning and
  well-being of every student
• Ensuring responsible stewardship of schools
• Ensure educators competence in and commitment to
  serving as stewards of schools

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FEEP DEEP

• Foster in the nations young the skills,
  dispositions, and knowledge necessary for
  effective participation in a social and political
  democracy
• Enculturating the young in a social and political
  democracy
• Ensure that the young have access to those
  understandings and skills required for satisfying
  and responsible lives
• Providing access to knowledge for all children
  and youth
• Develop educators who nurture the learning and
  well-being of every student
• Ensuring responsible stewardship of schools
• Ensure educators competence in and commitment to
  serving as stewards of schools
• Practicing a nurturing pedagogy (the art and
  science of teaching)

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So what?

• What does this all have to do with you?
• How does it all tie together?
• Teach what you learned today