Journal 3

Journal 3: 10th Annual San Diego Summer Leadership Institute.
“Restructuring for caring and effective education: The possible future of education” Richard A. Villa (President, Bayridge Consortium Inc, San Diego)
This fun and engaging speaker, Richard Villa opened his presentation asking for us as future teachers: “What is our destination in education”. According to Villa, the ability of combining generosity, belonging, mastery, and independence, we as educators, can create a learning environment that includes every student. Also, he uses the word “equalence” (is neither excellent nor equity alone) to specify what we as teachers should strive. He gave as example of “how changing the rules” of the game can make every student to play it and win it.
Question 1: What we as a future teachers should do in order to engage every student in the classroom?
As conscious teachers, we should respect all students regardless their background. We can not forget that every student should be valued as a unique individual.
Question 2: What Villa tried to show with the “game chairs”?
His intention was to show us, how a teacher can make every students feel like a winner! It also, increase self-esteem