Expected, Inspected, & Respected.
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
I've been reading The Innovator's Mindset by George Couros and I liked this idea. It came to George when he was responsible for teaching health to a Grade 7 class. Health was not a subject he was enthusiastic about and so he decided to give more control to his class than he normally would. I went through each objective in the health curriculum and re-wrote them in student-friendly language. I then asked the students to create their own groups, pick out the objectives that interested them, and teach each other. I acted more like a professor working with doctoral students, rather than how I had envisioned a typical grade seven teacher working (Couros, p. 98) . I like the idea, I would just worry that my admin would think I was being lazy rather than making a considered choice to innovate based on sound pedagogical theory. Still, I might like to try it someday.
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