Critical Pedagogy
Critical Pedagogy must be viewed from many different aspects of teaching. This includes the perspectives of the teacher, student, administration, and community. For a teacher, Critical Pedagogy is all about change, asking questions, and facing contradictions. The teacher must be the fusion of student engagement and inspiration, cooperation with administration, meeting school curriculum standards, and appealing to the overall community expectation of the music program.
In Critical Pedagogy I with Dr. Patrick Schmidt, we explored the roots of the ideals of critical pedagogy including the politics of public schools, introductions to creating lesson plans, and honoring the student's world by helping students discover what inspires their learning process.
To the right is a podcast of my first thoughts on music education philosophies and the link to a blog-form website created for a similar purpose. Below are files of lesson plans created using concepts from this class.
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During the Fall semester of 2012, I was enrolled in Critical Pedagogy II taught by Mr. Nick McBride. We discussed much of the politics of public schools and how to interact with administration. Several colleagues of Mr. McBride's came into our class to discuss with us and answer some of our questions regarding the subject of administration. We also had the opportunity of teaching critical pedagogy lessons regarding chapters of John Dewey's The Art of Teaching.
To the left is my first "Who Am I?" video for this class. Below and to the left are assigned lesson plans from Critical Pedagogy II and a link to my final philosophy paper.
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