Karin Crowder's Portfolio Description
In his book Children and Adolescents(1974), David Elkind quotes Piaget as follows,
"The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered. The great danger today is of slogans, collective opinions, ready-made trends of thought. We have to be able to resist individually, to criticize, to distinguish between what is proven and what is not. So we need pupils who are active, who learn early to find out by themselves, partly by their own spontaneous activity and partly through materials we set up for them; we learn early to tell what is verifiable and what is simply the first idea to come to them".
With that in mind I have chosen the topic of World War II for my theme. I hope, in this lesson, the students can access and use the resources to view the events that led to, occurred during, and ultimately ended the war and gain a better perspective of the lives that were affected. It is my hopes that by doing this, they may learn to question events, past, present, and future, asking why and looking for the purpose behind these events. Then, I hope they actively let their voice be heard, thinking critically throughout the process.