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20 April 2012 22:31So...schools in my country are being told they need to step it up. Scores need to get up, children should do better in schools. I'm sure it's like this in the rest of the world. Thing is: while the world have evolved and changed, our school system is basically still the same as about 100 years ago: children sit in a classroom, teacher educates them by telling stories, explaining stuff etc...and they write stuff down we tell them to write down. I don't get it, and never will I'm sure. Needless to say more and more children are less motivated to learn things, get bored, find school stupid etc...
This week we started with a 2 week project. Kids are supposed to make some kind of paper, do a presentation or something else about a subject they chose, in pairs. They only thing I told them was what kind of direction they could follow and what kind of information needed to be told. Nothing else. For 2 days straight it's all they work on when they have time. This afternoon, when I walked to class, everyone was already there, working. They figure things out on their own. They learn things I never taught them, because they want to figure it out. I often just observe, walk around and do nothing. Tell them to mind their grammar, give some ideas, but nothing more. I've got the most motivated kids ever. And it makes me happy. But also makes me wonder: why are we still supposed to do things the way we've done them for the past 100 years, while the children of this era are obviously in need of a different approach. Children still want to learn, they just want to learn in a different way.
This week we started with a 2 week project. Kids are supposed to make some kind of paper, do a presentation or something else about a subject they chose, in pairs. They only thing I told them was what kind of direction they could follow and what kind of information needed to be told. Nothing else. For 2 days straight it's all they work on when they have time. This afternoon, when I walked to class, everyone was already there, working. They figure things out on their own. They learn things I never taught them, because they want to figure it out. I often just observe, walk around and do nothing. Tell them to mind their grammar, give some ideas, but nothing more. I've got the most motivated kids ever. And it makes me happy. But also makes me wonder: why are we still supposed to do things the way we've done them for the past 100 years, while the children of this era are obviously in need of a different approach. Children still want to learn, they just want to learn in a different way.
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