Saturday, March 20, 2010
The Road Less Paved?
I went to a conference earlier this fall where a man showed a ppt slide of a "sketchy" neighborhood with run down homes and pot holes in the road. He made the analogy that this was our education system. We keep repaving the road with our "reforms" but essentially the road still leads to the same bad neighborhood. Then today, I saw this on cnn.com.http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/17/ted.ken.robinson/index.html?hpt=C1Read this short article and respond to it on the blog. Perhaps you as a single teacher in a classroom may not be able to completely overhaul education - but what can you do to keep from just repaving the same bad road?
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Sir Ken Robinson addresses the crux of the issue: that every student is provided a standard to reach for and then provided with tools to get there. However, every student, every child is different, unique. And the tools, the standards are not significant to all learners.
ReplyDeleteThe responsibility of a good teacher, which Sir Robinson addresses, is to create an environment in which all learners with thrive. As a single teacher one cannot revamp the standardized system. Then what can a teacher do? What can a teacher do to maximize students' growth and still reach "standards."
A teacher must be creative, open, and always learning. Creative to create the environment and methods of learning for all their students. Open to all ways of learning, communication, and performance. And always learning in order to be a prepared creative and open educator.