Citizen Teacher Philosophy Paper (15 pts) Name______________________________________________
Peer Reviewed By____________________________________________ Date ____________________
points
Paper is 4 pages in length and has been spell checked .5
Paper is in APA style: has correct title page, page numbers, first page .5
INTRODUCTION .5
PART 1: STORY OF SELF 1 PAGE 4
Who influenced you?
Briefly describe your family’s education experiences. Were there obstacles your family had to overcome?
What was happening in society that influenced the education of your family?
Talk about personal challenges/ important happenings in your journey to get here.
PART 2: TEACHER’S ROLE TODAY 1 ½ PAGES Are teachers’ responsibilities tied only to the students they teach, the classrooms in
which they work, or the schools/districts that hire us? 4.5
Clearly articulate your philosophy/thesis about being a Citizen Teacher in just a few sentences.
Develop and support your claims with research. Connect our class readings/articles to at least 3 articles or readings from this course.
Describe the responsibility you have to each:
• Individual students
• The class as a whole
• Parents
• The community
• School administration and district administration
• The education profession
• Society
PART 3: STORY OF SELF AND TODAY’S EDUCATOR- A CRITICAL SYNTHESIS 1 PAGE 4.5
Describe how you feel your own stories merge with the “ideal” teacher role of today? How do your own stories not merge?
Provide details of what will you be more aware of in your own practice based upon the intersections of your story and today’s expectations?
What is a teacher activist? Discuss whether you will be one and to what degree.
Describe specifically will you be an activist for. Then explain how.
Provide details of what specific steps will you take to ensure you are best prepared to
step into a classroom as a Citizen Teacher?
CONCLUSION ½ PAGE .5
Do teachers have a “general responsibility to the public” as Dewey (1913) argues? If so, what does the general responsibility entail?
What is the role of teachers in a democratic society?
Your responsibilities fall regarding society itself?