1. Topic #2: Foundations of
Education
Education Today: Realities Confronting Today’s Schools

2. Education Today: Realities Confronting
Today’s Schools
What is the purpose of schooling today?

3. Foundations of Education
-purposes of public education
-ideas and events that have
shaped education in Canada
-Canadian school governance and
law
-realities confronting today’s
Canadian schools
Becoming a Teacher,
Chapter 3
Becoming a Teacher,
Chapter 4
Becoming a Teacher,
Chapter 5
Assignment #2:
My Beliefs About
Students
Due Date =
October 17
Quiz #2: Part 2
Due Date =
October 22

4. KSA #2: Teachers understand the legislated, moral &
ethical frameworks within which they work.

5. Tuesday’s Teacher Thoughts:
What is the purpose of education?
"The ability to creatively handle change will be
the most sought after skill in the new
millennium."
***Alvin Toffler