Pugach

Question 1

What are 5 kinds of experience that create prior knowledge about teaching?

Answer 1

1. own experience about as a student in schools
2. Your autobiography
3. Your Beliefs
4. Your experience working in schools
5. Views of teaching encountered in media

Question 2

What are 2 major commitments in your autobiographical knowledge?

Answer 2

1. Family

2. personal commitments

Question 3

What are 2 issues regarding the media and teaching?

Answer 3

1. Visual media - belief of what you think about teachers from TV and movies.
2. Print media - standardized scores on texts

Question 4

What is a main point of Pugach’s theroy?

Answer 4

Question some of the beleifs about teaching and see if they hold up scrunity of your own experience and reflection.

Question 5

Explain Pugachs reasoning of “your own experience”

Answer 5

• nearly all of us have spent 12 years in school.
• due to this we have a set opinion and may think we beleive we know what a teacher is
• danger lies in not knowing that being a good teacher relies in consistant learning