Tuesday night, we all had to attend the Poehler Lecture to listen to speaker Carl Schoenbeck speak on education. Although I am probably not going to pursue a career in education, I thought a lot of his points were insightful, and some were even pretty familiar.
The first familiar part, of course, was the basic repetition of the first semester of Honors this year. A lot of his models looked kind of like our OMA, IMA, and NOMA models, although I guess his never really overlapped. I guess that was what was kind of cool, though, because he put faith in the middle as a core that kept everything together. While most of us put our faith in the theology part of our illustrations, he had a separate part for it. I also liked that he included a section for the parts of education that I understand more--less science-y ones, but more English-y ones. He said that by braiding all of our education and learning on all of these specific areas together, then we could truly be educated. He really liked the idea of interdisiplinary studies, and he even mentioned the Honors Program.
Another thing that he mentioned a lot was familiar to me, but possibly not to a whole lot of people. That part is Service Learning. I am a HUGE fan of Service Learning. Not only do I work in the Service Learning office, I have Service Learning implemented in my Spanish class, where I go to a school and work with an after-school program with Latino kids in Minneapolis. Besides the fact that I love the kids and the program, it teaches me SO MUCH. I was really glad that he put this little plug in for service learning, because Concordia is nothing like the real world, and it can be really helpful to get out there and broaden your horizons.
I thought the lecture would really not apply to me because it was about "Teaching the Children Well," but I guess in some ways, it really did. I guess that even though I'm not an education major, there will always be opportunities in my life to teach people things, from my faith to my kids that I work with in the after-school program.
The first familiar part, of course, was the basic repetition of the first semester of Honors this year. A lot of his models looked kind of like our OMA, IMA, and NOMA models, although I guess his never really overlapped. I guess that was what was kind of cool, though, because he put faith in the middle as a core that kept everything together. While most of us put our faith in the theology part of our illustrations, he had a separate part for it. I also liked that he included a section for the parts of education that I understand more--less science-y ones, but more English-y ones. He said that by braiding all of our education and learning on all of these specific areas together, then we could truly be educated. He really liked the idea of interdisiplinary studies, and he even mentioned the Honors Program.
Another thing that he mentioned a lot was familiar to me, but possibly not to a whole lot of people. That part is Service Learning. I am a HUGE fan of Service Learning. Not only do I work in the Service Learning office, I have Service Learning implemented in my Spanish class, where I go to a school and work with an after-school program with Latino kids in Minneapolis. Besides the fact that I love the kids and the program, it teaches me SO MUCH. I was really glad that he put this little plug in for service learning, because Concordia is nothing like the real world, and it can be really helpful to get out there and broaden your horizons.
I thought the lecture would really not apply to me because it was about "Teaching the Children Well," but I guess in some ways, it really did. I guess that even though I'm not an education major, there will always be opportunities in my life to teach people things, from my faith to my kids that I work with in the after-school program.
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