So much great information here. In order for education to become student centric we must broaden our minds as to what is possible. I really like the mentioning of Educational Choice versus School Choice as it ties into a previous video you did on the cafeteria concept of choice.
In reading Jenny Anderson's "The Disengaged Teen", combined with all the rest of my learning on student centric education, I flashed back to when I Iived in a ski area and my kids learning to ski. Skiing used to be built around Olympic event structure being more precision based until Freestyle came into play. Staying on track with education, I thought my kids should stay on the groomed runs like me until I followed a group of little kids into a run they had created off through the trees they called Giggle Gulch. Because of my longer skis I was unable to be as adaptive to the bumps and sharp turns they easily navigated. After running over the tops of a bunch of them I chose to ski outside their Gulch paralleling them on the groomed run. While doing that and listening I found out why it was called Giggle Gulch.
My kids became excellent skiers because of those freedoms to get off of the groomed runs. Unfortunately in their education they struggled as they were not mentally in tune with becoming Olympic skiers.
So much great information here. In order for education to become student centric we must broaden our minds as to what is possible. I really like the mentioning of Educational Choice versus School Choice as it ties into a previous video you did on the cafeteria concept of choice.
In reading Jenny Anderson's "The Disengaged Teen", combined with all the rest of my learning on student centric education, I flashed back to when I Iived in a ski area and my kids learning to ski. Skiing used to be built around Olympic event structure being more precision based until Freestyle came into play. Staying on track with education, I thought my kids should stay on the groomed runs like me until I followed a group of little kids into a run they had created off through the trees they called Giggle Gulch. Because of my longer skis I was unable to be as adaptive to the bumps and sharp turns they easily navigated. After running over the tops of a bunch of them I chose to ski outside their Gulch paralleling them on the groomed run. While doing that and listening I found out why it was called Giggle Gulch.
My kids became excellent skiers because of those freedoms to get off of the groomed runs. Unfortunately in their education they struggled as they were not mentally in tune with becoming Olympic skiers.
Fascinating fascinating analogy.