Careful. The following video doesn’t actually come out for another 12 hours. It’s tomorrow in China as I write this.
Reminds me of something Sheryl Nusbaum-Beach taught me way, way back in the day. “You can’t give away what you don’t own.”
Owning Learning
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When I was in Fourth Grade, my family moved and I found myself in a new school in a new part of the country. I’m sure this effected me in many subtle ways, but at school it was all about the different teaching approach.
The school was an “experimental school” (well, for 1972) that taught using a self-paced method. I was there just for fourth and fifth grade, but this counts as probably the one learning experience that sticks with me to this day.
Why is it that there aren’t more teaching methods (or teachers) that encourage the kids that learn quickly and support the kids who need help? Why isn’t there more “kids teaching other kids” going on? Why is it that this was the one time of my whole formal education experience, including university, where I was encouraged to explore, to investigate, and to creatively present what I found?
Who would I be if I had not had that experience?
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