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Old Paradigm
expected
meaning
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Transition:
what
Parents are told
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New Paradigm
Actual
meaning
in the NEW CONTEXT |
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Outcome-Based Education
(OBE)
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Educating students according to planned results
or "outcomes" |
A
systemic plan to prepare all
students to meet high standards
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A UN-led management system
based on international educational standards using financial and other
incentives to make sure local
schools prepare students to meet its
affective
(feeling-based, not factual) standards. The delivery system for
Mastery Learning
(below).
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Critical
Thinking |
Rational,
factual study and analysis. |
Teaching
students to think for themselves. |
Criticizing
and challenging traditional beliefs, values and authorities. Often uses
ridicule, intimidation and rejection to conform children to the new
paradigm.
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Values
Clarification |
Help
students clarify traditional American values. |
Help
students clarify & communicate their own values. |
Using
facilitated dialogue to replace old beliefs and values (first) with
moral relativism and self-made choices, then (second) with new global
beliefs and values. Shatters faith, destroys modesty, desensitizes to
evil, and frees children to follow their feelings. |
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Mastery Learning
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Students
must learn the facts required in subjects such as math, grammar,
history, etc. |
Students
will be given time needed to master the new standards |
Psychological
strategies for conditioning students to new beliefs, values, and ways of
thinking. Failure to meet attitudinal, not factual, standards means more
drilling until students demonstrate the "right" responses
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Local
Control |
Elected school boards represent local parents. |
Local schools choose and manage their own learning
programs. |
The lowest level of a new centralized bureaucracy. A
selected panel of supportive citizens will make sure students learn what
national standards and tests require. |
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World
Class Standards |
New
standards needed for global challenges
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“High
standards” needed for work in a global economy
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Low
standards for literacy, comprehension, and factual knowledge. “High
standards” for the beliefs, attitudes, and group thinking needed to
prepare human capital for the global workforce
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Higher Order Thinking
Skills |
Factual,
rational thinking. |
Apply,
analyze, synthesize, evaluate. |
Analyzing,
synthesizing, and applying information based on politically correct sets
of opinions and facts.
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Conflict Resolution |
Resolving
conflicts. |
Learning
to settle disputes peacefully.
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Learning
to synthesize beliefs and trade old absolute beliefs and values for
compromise positions and a new set of absolutes (see
note below)
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Consensus Building
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Agreement
through facilitated group discussion.
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Seeking
mutual understanding on a given subject.
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Reaching
a predetermined outcome through facilitated dialogue, often by ignoring,
labeling, intimidating, ridiculing, or ignoring any form of dissent.
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Whole Language |
The
writer or speaker's normal, intended meaning.
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Learning
to read and write in a relevant, meaningful context.
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Student
gives his own expression and meaning to text, rather than learning to
extract meaning of author. Accuracy and literacy fade in this process of
standardizing human capital. |
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Co-operative learning |
Students
working together. |
Preparing
for work with people whose cultural values differ from yours.
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Vital
to global standards in education and workplace. Faster students help
slow students instead of moving ahead. All must practice
unity and tolerance for
other ways and values. |
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Multicultural Education |
Learning
about other cultures. |
Learning
to respect and appreciate “all” cultures & lifestyles |
Becoming a multicultural person, open to the pluralistic beliefs and lifestyles
of all except those who cling
to Judeo-Christian values. |
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Drug or Sex Education |
Warning
students to avoid drugs and premarital sex.
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Teaching
facts and values needed for healthy lifestyles.
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Classroom
encounter groups that discuss options under guidance of non-judgmental
teacher. Unthinkable acts become alluring possibilities.
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