Palmer test DANCE356 Flashcards
How does Palmer’s descriptions of integrity and identity in teaching echo the gospel teachings?
Our thoughts/beliefs and actions must match in order to be living our truth.
In the eyes of Palmer, what makes a great mentor and what do we owe them?
p.24 mentors power comes from their coherence between their method and themselves. p.25 we owe them remembreance
Explain Palmers definition of Authority.
p.34 is granted when we author our own words, actions and lives. not just follow a script. Comes when reclaim my truth.
Define the teacher within?
p.30 the voice that invites us to honor the nature of my true self. Can be related to Holy Ghost.
Discuss the Phrase “ the teaching holds a mirror to the soul”
we teach who we are.
Why do we use technique until the teacher arrives?
p.25 arrives when proper powerful role of tech. we can use tech piques that reveal rather than conceal who we are.
Palmer acknowledges one main debilitating principle that holds us back
p.36 fear- we must use it to push ourselves not become it. which limits us and our students.
Palmer believes that our assumptions that our students a brain- dead leads to
p.42 leads to a pedagogies that deaden their brains.
what does it mean “to listen to to a voice before it has spoken?”
p.47 Means making space, being aware, paying attention and honoring the other.
what does objectivism driven by fear do to us?
p.52 it keeps us from forging relationships with things of this world.
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)
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.
why does palmer feel it is important to acknowledge our gifts?
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.
How does Palmer feel about “personality typing”?
it limits us because it puts us in boxes.
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?
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
explain palmers concept of “paradox of truth” and how it can be used in the classroom
two opposite truths=two rights. p.89 we can be accepting of someone else truth even if it differs from our own.
why is it important to have soft eyes when we hear or face something different that what we are used to?
p.116 it makes us see the reality
What does palmer mean by “the Grace of Great Things?”
p.110 subjects around which the circle of seekers has always gather- around the thing itself.
Complete this quote.” Good education is always a process more than a ____.”
product. 96
Please describe the three models of community
p.97 mission of knowing, teaching and learning.
what are palmers thoughts on competition vs. conflict?
p.106 the community of truth advances our knowledge through conflict not competition.
complete this phrase, “____ for the subject propels that subject…”
Passion p.122
Expand on Palmers thoughts for group work
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.
Complete this thought, “ The class room should be neither teacher centered, no student centered but___”?
subject centered
what are some examples of teacher, student and subject centered in the classroom?
Teach centered - lecture class, teacher knows all
student- group discussion, active learning p.122
subject- transfer of skill, keeps subject at center
What does Palmer consider a good question, and how do you get the most from them?
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.
How can we create a space for learning?
p116. we must use student teacher and subject to get the best learning space for all.
Palmer believes each of us have inner teacher
,,? Holy Ghost, be willing to listen
benefits of clearness committee
p.161, heighten awareness why rules need changing and what changes might look like.
what are some topics of conversation that we should be having with colleges?
good talk- our failures and successes.
what made rosa parks not want to give up her seat?
she was tired of living a divided life
what are 4 stages that help us live “divided no more”?
p.173 1. Divided no more 2. Communities of congruence 3. Going Public 4. All rewards
“the courage to live divided no more, and to face the punishment that may follow comes from this simple insight,” What is the insight?
no punishment anyone lays on you could possibly be worse that the punishment you lay on yourself by conspiring in your own diminishes.
What is community congruence
people who gather together in mutual reassurance of same values. p. 173
what does it mean to live divided no more?
to live your truth .find center of your lives outside institution.p. 172/3
