Assignment6-3-1




	ESE502 : The Class : Pro-active Management : Supportive Discipline : Assignment6-3-1

Essay: Process and Product Issues

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Directions: Read the following questions and statements. Choose one that is important to you and discuss your feelings and ideas with respect to the issues is raises about education. Try to keep your response to a page or 300 words.

The following may initiate excitement and energy for change.

Evaluate current and future roles and interplay of teacher, student and content.
Consider ways that human nature and child development factors are crucial determinants in the pro-active education process.
Develop a personal list of educational expectations, practices, and content to create the best outcome for student and society. Do not allow ease of measurement to influence your choices.
What will change if we visualize roles of teachers as a dynamic continuum rather than static?
Make a list that establishes the value of learner as self directed and responsible.
Question the importance of individual satisfaction and mastery versus competitive norms as the measure of schooling success [norm referenced or criterion referenced testing].
How can be enhance connectedness and interplay of all stake holders in education?
How can we enhance the roles of both process and product as outcomes of educational practice?
Explore the value and importance of teaching people to be fully and clearly human and treated with the dignity that suggests while taking responsibility for sharing that dignity with others.
Discuss the implications of viewing education as a service and profession.
Address ego development as part of education - i.e. the ability to see and give credence to others’ views, others’ needs, others’ cultural perspectives and to feel some sense of obligation to live life from the dual vantage point.
More thoroughly explore what it means to be fully human and which of the factors are essential to the well being of the individual and society; consider which develop in spite of neglect or attention, which can be enhanced through education and then assume the mantle of that knowledge
1. determine how these things can be developed
2. include them in the curriculum
3. establish procedures for measuring and valuing their emergence

Rubric:
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Choose and address one question.

Excellent
Fully address one or more of the questions, providing personal examples of ways this impacts your own teaching or career choice. Add ways to synthesize process and product and work to give creative solutions to these “age old” questions.

E-mail J'Anne Ellsworth at Janne.Ellsworth@nau.edu