Living the questions…

Dear Students,
While reading your thought-provoking blogs, I was reminded of my Curriculum & Instruction course. At the first class, I often remark to my students that they will predictably leave the course with more questions than definitive answers related to leadership in teaching and learning. Our challenge as educators may be to live the questions and to resist the temptation to devise quick, compact answers/solutions to major educational issues that we confront on a daily basis. The following questions emerged from your blogs. Let us consider as a class how to live these questions…
Gini


Durka discussed three aspects of a healthy learning environment: openness, boundaries and hospitality. What is concretely involved in establishing each of these components in a classroom/school?

If values are “caught and not taught,” how are they “caught” by students and not “taught” by faculty?

If technology “will never teach a person to love and care” (Sr. Susana), to what extent and in what ways do we as educators embrace technology in our schools, particularly with the rise of online courses?

Bipin shared the extraordinary diversity of his K-12 school in India, in which approximately one-third of the teachers and 54 out of 2,096 students are Catholic. What does the Jesuit/Catholic school identity mean in such a diverse context and how does the Jesuit/Catholic identity become tangible with a majority of non-Catholics?

Many of you mentioned being inspired by the Arab proverb: “God gave us two ears and one mouth to show us that we should listen twice as much as we speak.” From a behavioral, “lived” perspective, how may one initiate such a practice? How may a teacher integrate such a practice with students? (Lindy shared some wonderful ideas in her blog!)