The Scholar Academic Ideology

The Scholar Academic Ideology

By Mitchell Sexton and Yvonne Crawford

On a sheet of paper, please jot down what you see, think, and wonder about this photo.

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See, Think, Wonder

participate in group discussion and construct responses about the scholar academic ideology influences my teaching practices.​

To be Successful, I will...

The characteristics of the Scholar Academic Ideology and how it applies to my teaching practice.

​Today I Am Learning...

Learning Targets and Success Criteria

Scholar Academic Ideology Review Game

Multiple Choice

Scholar Academics believe the purpose of education is to...

• help children learn the accumulated knoweldge of our culture.

• efficiently meet the needs of society by training youth to function as mature contributing members of society.

• growth of individuals , each in harmony with his or her own unique intellectual, social, emotional, and physical attirbues.

• facilitate the construction of a new and more just society that offers maximum satisfaction to all of its members.

Multiple Choice

Which group finds and rules over knowledge?

• Scholars

• Teachers

• Students

• Researchers

Multiple Choice

Which group is responsible for disseminating knowledge?

• Scholars

• Teachers

• Students

• Researchers

Multiple Choice

Which group is primarily viewed as responsible for being receivers of knowledge?

• Scholars

• Teachers

• Students

• Researchers

Multiple Choice

True or False: Scholar Academics would favor occupational, professional, vocational, technical, commercial, agricultural, business, industrial, or homemaking training for children.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Scholar Academics attempt to construct curriculum so that it becomes a reflection of, or epitome of, the academic discipline. Subjects that are taught within schools must be drawn from among the academic disciplines and only from among them.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

According to Scholar Academics, which aspect of curriculum takes top priority?

• Subject matter

• Instructional methods

Multiple Choice

Which aspect is not a criterion used to define an academic discipline:

• A defined area of study

• the collection of facts, writings, and other works of scholars associated with a well-defined area of study

• a community of individuals whose ultmate task is the gaining of meaning

• an array of knowledge that is unchanging

Multiple Choice

True or False: Scholar Academics believe education in a discipline involves entering the discipline at a low level of the dicipline's hierarchy and working one's way toward the top of the heirarchy.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Scholar Academics want learning in schools to be traditional and stagnant.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Scholar Academics do not see tracking and ability grouping as a useful academic practice.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Scholar Academics believe that high-stakes testing of children should be used for grading, promotion, and school graudation.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Scholar Academics believe that worthwhile curriculum knowledge and evaluation should be _________.

• Transparent

• Self-evident

• Objective

• Subjective

Multiple Choice

A Scholar Academic would not be likely to use which of the following teaching methods:

• Didactic discourse

• supervised practice

• Socratic discussion

• Designing self-directed learning environments