This will be the introduction slide - Overview of three different influential men and their contributions and impact on the world of education (blah, blah, blah)… Something terribly profound about all 3 of our guys….

 What was my life’s work?  Blah, blah, blah  More blah, blah, blah  A little more blah, blah, blah,  What were my greatest accomplishments?  Grocery shopping  Weeded the garden  Learned what a dipthong was… Brief Biographical information: Blah, blah, blah… Blah, blah, blah

 What was my primary teaching philosophy?  Why should my audience care anyway?  What contributions did I make to the field of education?  Would I have heard of anything he accomplished or was influenced/touched by it in some way?  Did he have any controversial viewpoints? What were these points and why were they controversial? Who did he conflict with b/c of his philosophies? Quotation from Carl Rogers Something terribly profound…

 What was my life’s work?  Blah, blah, blah  More blah, blah, blah  A little more blah, blah, blah,  What were my greatest accomplishments?  Folding the laundry  Emptying the dishwasher  Listened to a phoneme Brief Biographical information: Blah, blah, blah… Blah, blah, blah

 What was my primary teaching philosophy?  Why should my audience care anyway?  What contributions did I make to the field of education?  Would I have heard of anything he accomplished or was influenced/touched by it in some way?  Did he have any controversial viewpoints? What were these points and why were they controversial? Who did he conflict with b/c of his philosophies? Quotation from Mortimer… “Why did my parents name me Mortimer?”

 What was my life’s work?  Blah, blah, blah  More blah, blah, blah  A little more blah, blah, blah,  What were my greatest accomplishments?  Fed the dogs  Balanced my checkbook  Opened the mail Brief Biographical information: Blah, blah, blah… Blah, blah, blah

 What was my primary teaching philosophy?  Why should my audience care anyway?  What contributions did I make to the field of education?  Would I have heard of anything he accomplished or was influenced/touched by it in some way?  Did he have any controversial viewpoints? What were these points and why were they controversial? Who did he conflict with b/c of his philosophies? Quotation from Mr. Bagley “Why am I so find to hard on the internet?”

Similarities?? Contributions???  What do these fellows have in common? › They all lived to be old farts… › Does this mean that continued life-long learning makes us live longer? › They all wrote a lot of books… › Blah, Blah, Blah,  How did they impact us? › Their philosophies included…. › Why is that important to me? › What did I learn from studying these people? › Will I apply anything I learned to my future career? › Yada, yada, yada › Yabadabadoo…