Self Inventory
- Recall 3 events from your early schooling that you believe have influenced your decision to become a teacher.
- Explain/describe experiences that you believe are of benefit to other people’s children.
- What, according to the reading you have done on the purpose and process of schooling, are the 3 most important things to include in the pedagogical practice you do or you intend to incorporate.
What do you think is the role of the teacher?
- How can you develop the skill and disposition to address the learning and social needs of urban and poor children.
- What is you best memory of your early schooling. Describe you response.
- What is your worst memory of your early. Describe you response.
- Rate you background reading knowledge of philosophy of education as one of the following. Expansive (8-10 books, chapters and articles); Modest (5-7); Fair (3-5); Pitiful (0-2).
- How often do you visit neighborhoods and schools in the poorest sections of your city?
- Which of the following terms best describes your feelings about the children of the poor and the very poor? Very Comfortable and Natural, Apprehensive, Fraught with pity, They are the products of incompetent, uncaring parents.
- How will you prepare yourself to be one of the world’s finest teachers of urban children?
