Teachers and educational institutions have a love affair with ‘new’ ideas. Learning all the new jargon and acronyms have a way of making the learner feel like a member of a new exclusive club. Repackaged ideas are a big hit with teachers.
This video makes me think we might spend a bit too much time repackaging and we need to focus a bit more on refining. Hands on learning, project approach, constructivism…what ever you want to label it, has been around for quite a long time. Maybe we should all take a few minutes to learn from the past.
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Hi. I'm G. Steve McCallum.
I am currently teaching kindergarten at International School Manila. I have been teaching preschool-kindergarten for the past 15 years. I have taught in the USA, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines.
[...] 25, 2009 in Uncategorized After reading and viewing Steves Blog entitled teaching has come along way… or has it ?. We often hear the words ‘ this idea has come around again’ or ‘ we used to do [...]
It was really interesting to come across your post as I viewed this video yesterday. I am hoping to write a post on it too. When I first watched this video I also thought – ‘have there been any changes in education since 1940?!’. After further reading, along with pros and cons of Progressive Education – I realised that maybe we have been putting our ideas together – taking the best (hopefully) of each new ‘fad’ and slowly coming up with a little bit of everything that caters more constructively for all.. might need to will reflect further on my blog post….
I came across this post Whilst on a search for people who were talking about hands on learning, because it is something I am very passionate about. I work with a younger crowd (infants and toddlers) and I think that this sort of hands on education early on is so important, and Iv actually been creating a project based on that if you had a minute to take a look! Id love to hear your feedback
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