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Your philosophy of education and classroom management and discipline are not foundational beliefs. They all stem from your worldview.
So have a well thought out worldview and make sure your beliefs about teaching/discipline are in line with it.
https://teacherfulton.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/worldviews-and-teachers/ https://twitter.com/Teacher_Fulton/status/1321261773412921346
So have a well thought out worldview and make sure your beliefs about teaching/discipline are in line with it.
https://teacherfulton.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/worldviews-and-teachers/ https://twitter.com/Teacher_Fulton/status/1321261773412921346
If you don't think through your worldview, your views will be appropriated from whatever particular subculture/s you lean towards.
This will make you inconsistent. That isn't good. https://teacherfulton.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/appropriated-worldviews-appropriated-philosophies-of-education/
This will make you inconsistent. That isn't good. https://teacherfulton.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/appropriated-worldviews-appropriated-philosophies-of-education/
Once you have thought through your worldview, you can have clear conversations with those who disagree with you. https://teacherfulton.wordpress.com/2020/08/03/clear-philosophies-create-clear-discourse/
Since sexual assault is the current hot topic on #edutwitter, make sure you have thought things through. This is too serious a topic to appropriate your beliefs on.
If sexual assault is serious enough to exclude a student, you should ask why? How do you justify it?
If sexual assault does not warrant excluding a student, you should ask why? How do you justify this view?
Being able to soundly, thoroughly justify your view is very important.
If sexual assault does not warrant excluding a student, you should ask why? How do you justify this view?
Being able to soundly, thoroughly justify your view is very important.
Here is mine.
Foundationally, I am a Christian. Sexual assault is wrong, not merely because it harms the victim or breaks societal rules or laws.
Sexual assault is wrong because it mars a human created in God's image. God condemns this. Therefor we should too.
Foundationally, I am a Christian. Sexual assault is wrong, not merely because it harms the victim or breaks societal rules or laws.
Sexual assault is wrong because it mars a human created in God's image. God condemns this. Therefor we should too.
And yet, though God does judge the perpetrator harshly, he loves him/her. We should too. But not at the neglect of the victim. The victim has our priority.
This means we expel the perpetrator primarily for the good of the victim, but also for the perpetrator's own good.
This means we expel the perpetrator primarily for the good of the victim, but also for the perpetrator's own good.
We do not make light of severe sin. So, exclusion/expulsion in addition to involving law enforcement is the minimum first step (after determining guilt).
Once punishment has received, then we can talk about what rehabilitation or even eventual restoration may look like.
Once punishment has received, then we can talk about what rehabilitation or even eventual restoration may look like.
Many of you reading this thread will disagree with my foundational claim that Christianity is true, yet you will mostly agree with all my claims flowing from there (in this situation), showing that people who strongly disagree on foundational truths can productively work together
