Freedom in the Classroom

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Freedom in the Classroom
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• Freedom to teach
• Freedom to learn and grow
• Rules without relationship equals rebellion
• Boundaries

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• Create the most favorable conditions
• Teacher is a stimulator and motivator
• Teacher excites and directs
• Student is an investigator, discover, doer
• Good teacher focuses on students, not what he/she
  is doing
• Whats important is what students do

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• Different world today
• Culture kept kids within certain boundaries
• Movies, music, and television encourage rebellion
• Schools where a lot of rebellion acted out
• Teacher is not free to create conditions
  favorable for inquiry

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• Boundaries with appropriate consequences
• Not power struggle, anger or frustration,
  lectures or threats, but love and logic
• Love allows students to grow
• Logic allows students to live with the
  consequences of their choices
• Solution to their problems begins with them

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• They have to make the first move
• Students understand logical consequences of
  their mistakes much better
• Consequences not focused on relational
  consequences like anger, guilt, shame,
  condemnation, or abandonment

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• Teachers should be mentors to students
• Two extremes best friend or control freak
• Best is somewhere in the middle
• When friendship came first passivity resulted
• When relationship started with respect activity
  resulted

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• In other words boundaries equal freedom
• Students must understand there will be
  appropriate consequences