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Here's a sample lesson from Jivin' Johnny's Let's Talk!
 Break your class into small groups, or create a panel , or try it with the full class. Just be sure that everyone gets the chance to participate.

 

Sample Lesson: Let's Talk about School

Ernie would really try sometimes, but, in the end, he only scored 35 percent in Ms. Ash’s class. She feels he should repeat the course next year, while the V-P, Mrs. Locke, wants
Ernie passed to keep him even with his age group.

• What do you think should be done?
• What if Ernie had scored 45 percent? If he’d scored only 15 percent?

• Are tests and exams the best ways to measure learning?
• How else might one assess whether real learning has taken place?

• Would you be in favor of a ‘nobody fails’ school system?

• Why do we have schools? What purposes do they serve?
• Does education increase happiness? Future happiness?
• What should education do?

• How would you describe the present school system?
• What changes would make school better for the students?

• If you could re-arrange the school timetable, what changes would you make?
• Would you ever be in favor of year-round school? Saturday classes?
• How would you change the vacation schedule?

• What changes in the world might affect schools in the future?
• Will machines ever replace teachers?

The principal asks you to teach a one-hour lesson to a younger class while their teacher is away. You’re free to teach them whatever you want.

• What would you teach them?
• How would you teach them?
• How would you measure whether your teaching was successful?

Lacey refuses to answer in class or participate in group work. Mr. Holmes has given her an oral mark of ‘0.’ Lacey’s mother complains that there should be alternate assignments that don’t require speaking.

• What do you think?
• Would your opinion change:
- If Lacey was extremely shy?
- If Lacey spent most of the class talking to friends?
- If Lacey’s father was Mr. Holmes, the teacher?

• Are there things about school that you don’t like? What? Why?

• Should all students have to take courses in:
- citizenship?
- religious education?
- sex education?
- survival?
- family studies?
- ____________ (others?)

• What can be done to reduce or eliminate violence in schools?
• How can schools and communities deal with bullying? With verbal abuse?
• If a student is being harassed or abused at school, what should he or she do?

• Would you want to be a teacher? Why or why not?
• Describe something a teacher has done for you that really helped you.

• What advice would you give a beginning teacher?
• Should students have a say in whether a teacher’s contract is renewed or not?

A visiting TV reporter, with camera running, asks you, “What’s so great about your school?”

• What do you answer?

• What questions about school would you like to discuss with the group?
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