Palmer test DANCE356

Question 1

How does Palmer’s descriptions of integrity and identity in teaching echo the gospel teachings?

Answer 1

Our thoughts/beliefs and actions must match in order to be living our truth.

Question 2

In the eyes of Palmer, what makes a great mentor and what do we owe them?

Answer 2

p.24 mentors power comes from their coherence between their method and themselves. p.25 we owe them remembreance

Question 3

Explain Palmers definition of Authority.

Answer 3

p.34 is granted when we author our own words, actions and lives. not just follow a script. Comes when reclaim my truth.

Question 4

Define the teacher within?

Answer 4

p.30 the voice that invites us to honor the nature of my true self. Can be related to Holy Ghost.

Question 5

Discuss the Phrase “ the teaching holds a mirror to the soul”

Answer 5

we teach who we are.

Question 6

Why do we use technique until the teacher arrives?

Answer 6

p.25 arrives when proper powerful role of tech. we can use tech piques that reveal rather than conceal who we are.

Question 7

Palmer acknowledges one main debilitating principle that holds us back

Answer 7

p.36 fear- we must use it to push ourselves not become it. which limits us and our students.

Question 8

Palmer believes that our assumptions that our students a brain- dead leads to

Answer 8

p.42 leads to a pedagogies that deaden their brains.

Question 9

what does it mean “to listen to to a voice before it has spoken?”

Answer 9

p.47 Means making space, being aware, paying attention and honoring the other.

Question 10

what does objectivism driven by fear do to us?

Answer 10

p.52 it keeps us from forging relationships with things of this world.

Question 11

Palmer acknowledges that the current world of education is filled with a Broken Paradox and lifeless results, list one of the four. (both paradoxes and results)

Answer 11

p.68 separate from head and heart- result a head that does not know how to feel and a heart that does not know how to think.

Question 12

why does palmer feel it is important to acknowledge our gifts?

Answer 12

p.72 2 main reasons,
1 becoming aware of gifts helps continuously teach us from our truth.
2. we need reassurance to take next step- examine them.

Question 13

How does Palmer feel about “personality typing”?

Answer 13

it limits us because it puts us in boxes.

Question 14

Palmer believes” We are more likely to choose participation when we are granted the freedom to do so.” How does he use this in the classroom, yet still hold the students accountable?

Answer 14

p.81-85 use his 6 paradoxes. when we create a learning space that is open and bounded p.81 , charged and hospitable p.82 invited both group and individual voices p.82, honor little and big stories of our lives p.83, support solitude and surround it with resources of community p.84, welcomes both silence and speech p.85

Question 15

explain palmers concept of “paradox of truth” and how it can be used in the classroom

Answer 15

two opposite truths=two rights. p.89 we can be accepting of someone else truth even if it differs from our own.

Question 16

why is it important to have soft eyes when we hear or face something different that what we are used to?

Answer 16

p.116 it makes us see the reality

Question 17

What does palmer mean by “the Grace of Great Things?”

Answer 17

p.110 subjects around which the circle of seekers has always gather- around the thing itself.

Question 18

Complete this quote.” Good education is always a process more than a ____.”

Answer 18

product. 96

Question 19

Please describe the three models of community

Answer 19

p.97 mission of knowing, teaching and learning.

Question 20

what are palmers thoughts on competition vs. conflict?

Answer 20

p.106 the community of truth advances our knowledge through conflict not competition.

Question 21

complete this phrase, “____ for the subject propels that subject…”

Answer 21

Passion p.122

Question 22

Expand on Palmers thoughts for group work

Answer 22

2 thoughts. 1 human brain works best when information is presented in meaningful connection in a community. 2. has pedagogical power cause allows students to do their learning together.

Question 23

Complete this thought, “ The class room should be neither teacher centered, no student centered but___”?

Answer 23

subject centered

Question 24

what are some examples of teacher, student and subject centered in the classroom?

Answer 24

Teach centered - lecture class, teacher knows all
student- group discussion, active learning p.122
subject- transfer of skill, keeps subject at center

Question 25

What does Palmer consider a good question, and how do you get the most from them?

Answer 25

p.137 a question that bounces the dialogue around the room. P.137-138 learn how to trust that the community has records to deal with issue at hand, listen attentively, trace a trajectory them reframe.

Question 26

How can we create a space for learning?

Answer 26

p116. we must use student teacher and subject to get the best learning space for all.

Question 27

Palmer believes each of us have inner teacher

Answer 27

,,? Holy Ghost, be willing to listen

Question 28

benefits of clearness committee

Answer 28

p.161, heighten awareness why rules need changing and what changes might look like.

Question 29

what are some topics of conversation that we should be having with colleges?

Answer 29

good talk- our failures and successes.

Question 30

what made rosa parks not want to give up her seat?

Answer 30

she was tired of living a divided life

Question 31

what are 4 stages that help us live “divided no more”?

Answer 31

p.173 1. Divided no more 2. Communities of congruence 3. Going Public 4. All rewards

Question 32

“the courage to live divided no more, and to face the punishment that may follow comes from this simple insight,” What is the insight?

Answer 32

no punishment anyone lays on you could possibly be worse that the punishment you lay on yourself by conspiring in your own diminishes.

Question 33

What is community congruence

Answer 33

people who gather together in mutual reassurance of same values. p. 173

Question 34

what does it mean to live divided no more?

Answer 34

to live your truth .find center of your lives outside institution.p. 172/3