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Guide to Learning:  Lesson 4

Use this "guide sheet" to structure your progress through the learning task.  (Buttons for the various steps are at left, and also below).  To get the most learning benefit, work through the steps in order, and attend closely to the narrative that accompanies each step. 

Introduction

»1»  Pondering Your Position (Activity)

»2»  Teacher's Comfort Zone (Reading)

»3»  Classroom Complexities (Reading)

»4»  Owning Up (Activity)

»5»  The "Idea Jar" (Reading)

»Introduction»

Any teacher, whatever his or her worldview may be, needs to be self-reflective about his/her own position in the demographic picture and culture. Then, too, the "Know Thyself" dictum (a piece of advice that comes from an inscription on the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece) is as useful today it was in 6th century BCE. 

 This lesson offers some opportunities for self-reflection while it introduces several pertinent issues and ideas.

 

»Step 1»   Pondering Your Position (Activity)

bulletLabel your own worldview and acknowledge your likely mind-set toward others' differing worldviews.

Go to Activity (Step 1) 

»Step 2»   Teacher's Comfort Zone (Reading)

bulletConsider the relevance of your own cultural positioning and personality to the challenge you face as far as religious neutrality.

This paper encourages you to reflect on factors that can impinge on your sense of well-being when dealing with the range of worldviews.  

Go to Reading (Step 2) 

»Step 3»   Classroom Complexities (Reading)

bulletConsider some "behind-the-scenes" complexities along with ideas you can use to "center  yourself" amidst the complexities. 

This paper helps you to "get a grip" because it presents certain "realities" that, given consideration, enlarge your capacity to focus on what's important regarding a commitment to religious neutrality.  

Go to Reading (Step 3) 

»Step 4»   Owning Up (Activity)

bulletLay out some basic elements of your own worldview

The responses that you give to the questions reveal (to you, only) what are a few bare bones essentials of your worldview. 

Go to Activity (Step 4) 

»Step 5»   "Idea Jar" (Reading)

bulletGet acquainted with three ideas you may want to put into your mental "toolbox" for teaching.

Put to use, any of the three items presented could boost your chance of establishing a neutral classroom climate. You can employ them in whatever ways and to whatever extent best fit your own teaching style and classroom practices. 

Go to Reading (Step 5) 

This is the end of Lesson Four Learning Tasks  We suggest you return to the Lesson 4 Home page and revisit the structure of this lesson.  

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