Southwest TJEd Forum 2010 - Part 3

Breakout Sessions

The conference had two break-out sessions in the afternoon so that attendees could choose which classes to attend. There were a lot of great classes and it was hard to choose. But, alas, I did manage to choose. :-)

Dan Ralphs - "Three Types of Students"

Many of you are probably familiar with the Three Types of Education, those of us who have read the books about Leadership Education have heard about them many times. Dan Ralphs expanded the chart that I have below to add what type of student is created in each type of learning. I truly enjoyed expanding my understanding of these concepts. I know that I had heard this before in a talk by Oliver DeMille at the first Southwest TJEd Forum two years ago, but I NEEDED to hear this again, and specifically, at this time.

Three Types of Education

Education	Goal	Methodology	Curriculum
Conveyor Belt	1 - Job Training 2 - What to Think	Soviet Conveyor Belt Same Education at the same age Educate the poor	75% Social 25% Textbooks Comfortable for factory jobs
Professional	1 - Train Experts 2 - When to Think	Elite Conveyor Belt	Case Studies Ethics Solve Problems
Leadership Education	1 - Train Entrepenuers 2 - How to Think	Mentoring	Define Problems Classics

Three Types of Students

Education	Study Habits	Learning	Teacher/Student	Motivation
Conveyor-Belt	Entitlement Min/Max	Teacherbased	Fear/Obey	Fear based
Pressional	Memorizers/Test Based	Expert Centered	Competitive	Utility
Leadership Education	Purposeful Depth	Wisdom Centered	Submissive	Love

Epiphanies during this speech:

• Christian is still somewhat of a conveyor-belt student. He spent the first 3 1/2 years following the conveyor-belt at public school and I have worked very hard to help him get off. I can see now that he has one foot on and one foot off. As hard as this is for me to admit, it is IMPORTANT that as his mentor I stop ignoring this fact and focus on how to help him instead. My pride was getting in the way (not wanting to admit that he is still a conveyor-belt student at times). But, how many of us adults are still conveyor-belt students? How hard is it for US to get off? Why should I be afraid of admitting this and doing what needs to be done to help him?
• Leadership happens when the student chooses a mentor. I think applies to what I wrote above. In my personal realm of application, I can see that I need to inspire Christian to choose me as his "mentor" and stop looking at me as his "teacher".

Dr. Andrew Groft's Closing Remarks

Education is...

• expanding definitions.
• making connections.
• considering applications.

People without good family are searching for the government to make them happy.

The way that you see the government is the way that you see education.

I learned a great deal more, but it is so hard to put it all into words. He discussed Plato's "Republic" and Montesquieu's views on government. I really need to read these works before I will understand it all, or be able to explain it.

And finally...he left us with this quote.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. - Abraham Lincoln

Part 1 - Carol Shippy and Dr. Andrew Groft
Part 2 - Julie Early