This has not broke into main stream media yet. Any teachers out there that confirm or refute this?
I am checking with my children’s school and if this is true, they will be going to the zoo with me that day.
PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities:
President Obama’s Address to Students
Across America
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education September 8, 2009
Before the Speech:
Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by asking the following questions: Who is the President of the United States? What do you think it takes to be President? To whom do you think the President is going to be speaking? Why do you think he wants to speak to you? What do you think he will say to you?
Teachers can ask students to imagine being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they would say.
Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech:
As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following: What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do? What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
After the Speech:
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions: What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us? What would you like to tell the President?
Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.
On September 8th
the Department will invite K-12 students to submit a video no longer than 2 min, explaining why education is important and how their education will help them achieve their dreams. Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into an assignment. More details will be released via http://www.ed.gov.
Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.
Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.
Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
Graph student progress toward goals.
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Since a notice about this event has been posted on the Dept. of Education site, it is probably an intention:
http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html
Sounds like an easy way to find out where your children’s heads are at, and their classmates as well. The school collects their questions and comments. You can watch the presentation across the web. You can talk to the kids about their questions and comments, about their classmates questions/comments, and about the teachers’ actions. It is also a good opportunity to talk with the children about marketing, manipulation, propoganda, public image, government and corporations, official titles, roles, events or publicity stunts, motivational speakers and other cheerleaders, confidence schemes, the value of education, power relationships, and real leadership.
Having this information, it would be possible to begin teaching the children before this event occurs. There are records of presentations that should be sufficiently similar to be good foundations to form a baseline for the presentation type, and for later comparison. Educated in advance, the children should have a much more mature, analytical experience.
I have already had a discussion with my children about “Why they should listen to the president.” I explained how the question is misleading, the proper question is, “Why the president should listen to me.”
In America each of us is sovereign. We hire officials to help protect our liberties, NOT to guide our everyday lives.
The extended bit of this event about reviewing progress toward goals seems largely education adminidroid misprioritization, but I am in favor of having my public servants encourage education in schools and beyond. A foundation of effective democracy is a well-informed electorate, with the education to understand that information.
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