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    argued that of all the general principles of Catholic social thought (CST), aside from what could be considered the foundational principle of the dignity of human life, the principle of the preferential option for the poor is the cornerstone by which all the other points of social thought are held in comparison to. With respect to the teachings of the Church, an option for the poor and maligned closely matches the historical Jesus’ teachings concerning social thought in the Gospels. Mich lists…

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    Unfortunately, these generalizations that the public oftentimes connects to traditional Catholics is not a caricature too far from the truth. For example, I belong to Old Saint Joseph’s, the oldest Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. While I do appreciate this parish and have deep respect for its highly educated staff of socially conscious and progressive Jesuits, I struggle with the…

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    includes the factors that allow individuals and communities to not only survive, but foster and thrive to their full potential. Thus, there are many behaviors or attitudes that shape the common good. In Fr. Daniel Groody’s, “Themes from Catholic Social Teachings”, he highlights some of the core themes that must be valued and represented among all individuals, such as the “dignity of the human person” or the “the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages,…

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    The centerpiece of the Catholic conception of social justice is that social justice must be a virtuous and ethical approach that states there is an inherent dignity of the human person, which is warranted by the claim that humankind was created in the image of God, and rooted in His virtues. Because of this, people are therefore good, because everything that God has created is good, which means that the way people should view the world is through the perception that everyone else is equally as…

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    “Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?” (Bill Hicks) We are always told that that marijuana is a dangerous substance that could have a vastly negative impact on our lives, thus the reason for its illegality. But is it actually substantially more dangerous than alcohol, a substance that you could buy at almost any store around the corner? Both substances could have negative impacts…

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    is what they are going to be learning about next in social studies. This is the topic I did for my text set in this class. I was about to use some of the main questions and go from there. I also picked out the book Ellis Island, which was in my text set, as a big part of the lesson. I came up with a way to relate what we were learning to the student’s lives to try and get them engaged. There were some things that went really well while teaching the lesson. First off the timing of it was good.…

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    important role. Since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in 2002, many people have been concern about children’s learning and academic achievement, especially parents and educators. In fact, teachers are always trapped in “teaching dilemmas” because each teaching method has different levels of pros and cons for students. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) suggested that for all of the choices that teachers have during a day of instruction, many fit into the category of a “dilemma” where…

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    key aspect of personalised learning is high quality teaching and learning in Foreign Languages such as Spanish. One strategy is ‘direct teaching’ (DfES 2007, Moore 2009; Muijs and Reynolds 2011) which can be used to implement high quality teaching and learning. Other strategies suggested by the DfES (2007) are social, cognitive teaching and learning models. However, Muijs and Reynolds (2011) state that other strategies include ‘interactive teaching’, ‘collaborative small group work and peer…

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    within. He is very right in saying that the process of teaching is akin to the banking system. This often leads to a poor relationship between the pupil and the almighty instructor. However, is this relationship and the teaching method a package deal? The current approach to teaching is the banking concept, which can lead to an oppressive environment, which is caused by the poor student-teacher relationship. I agree that a different teaching method could be more effective, but I do not agree…

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    We have all been through this when students experienced a classroom with a good and bad professors throughout the school year. As the good professor who that inspired you to learn to accomplish things and explore what 's going to happen next in the future. And there 's the bad professor who have a boring personality or don 't care enough about making the students happy. Due to tremendous of math assignments we intend to receive in math class we find ourselves struggling a little. Whereas in…

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