Teacher by Sylvia AshtonWarner

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Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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Major ideas of the book

• Base education in students culture
• Become involved in students community
• Become involved in students lives
• Organic education
• Key vocabulary
• Inner vision versus outer vision

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Meaning Significance of Major Ideas

• Students learn best when they know and like what
  they are learning
• Build rapport with students by caring about them
  and their community
• Organic education differentiated instruction

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continued

• Use vocabulary words that have meaning to
  students
• Let students use their inner vision to create
  their own pictures

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Things the group agrees with

• The discipline theory the author quotes
  Discipline is a matter of being able to get
  attention when you want it . She got the
  childrens attention by playing the piano. This
  method of discipline is still used today, but
  many teachers use a rhythmic clap that the
  children repeat back to the teacher

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• Students learn better with their own culture and
  interests.
• First vocabulary words that students learn should
  have an intense meaning to them, interest wise
  and culture wise this helps them remember the
  words as humans remember things that have a
  significant meaning to them

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Things we disagree with

• Sylvia Ashton-Warner thought that she was a bad
  teacher
• We disagree with this because she was so ahead of
  her time. The things she talked about and methods
  she used are just being introduced and used now,
  today.

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Inner eye and outer eye

• Children have two visions Inner and outer
• The visions seen by the inner eye are organic
• Illustrations and words chosen by adults are seen
  though the outer eye
• Illustrations and words that come from within are
  picked up by the inner eye

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Organic Vocabulary opposed to Inorganic
VocabularyRespectable words wont do. Pleasant
words wont do.

• Organic
• Describes the words that come from the Childs
  being
• Born from the dynamic life.
• Word carries a personal illustration.
• Organic learning is motivated by personal
  interest

• Inorganic
• If we impose words onto children it is not
  organic
• Words that dont have intense meaning
• Inorganic words are words handed to you
• Lacking interest to the students inner eye

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Progressive Style

• Class is more students centered
• students pursue their natural interests
• Less focus on discipline
• Students worked together in groups

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Signs of effective teaching

• Shows interest in her students
• Adjusts to her students different needs
• Students working together
• Persistence
• Displays Control

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Questions about the book

• Why did Ms. Henderson resign?
• Why did she think she was a bad teacher?
• What happened to her students after she resigned?
• Why wasnt she able to publish this book in her
  country?

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Questions continued

• What is the new race?
• What made her so motivated to help these
  students?