Putting Students in Charge of Their Learning Journey

By leaving space in their lessons for authentic curiosity to take hold, teachers can enable deeper learning.

The Springfield Renaissance School
GRADE 6-12 | Springfield, MA

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[dhankmeme]

In 8th grade the greatest teacher I have ever had made me interested in a subject I thought I hated; algebra. He opened my eyes to what good teaching can do, and how bad some other teaching can be. Lets just say his class was the only one I got an A in.

[Teachwisdomconsulting]

its amazing what teachers can do with students when schools use school funds for critical thinking activities and not just paper/pencil/textbooks

[seekingsnowflakes]

Great example of how to teach students how to think independently 🤩

[boobatherapper]

Well played springfield! The only 2nd role i would definitly want the teacher to make is a very brief format of a lesson video, 'CLEAR' and easy that you should present and interact along with it's representation.Trust me this would save huge amont of time but have a good representation, try to show in the same time a LIFERELATED IMPORTANT idea.A BIG non-dogmatic cultural idea ofc.remember :The real base of our knowledge and developpement is "Doubt"! Good luck on your journey!☺

[christianbutcher]

This is an awesome engagement activity, but I'm wondering what a classroom like this looks like when getting into the real difficult stuff. How do you take kids from the wondery of bugs to some rigorous argumentation and modeling?

[AMichaelFromBrasil]

It's seems promising, but this class has a few students so based on my opinion only I would say that this just would work in a scenario like on the video: few students on class.

How would manage a class with more than 30 students like in Brazil?And I'm not even considering the social problems

[stormelemental]

Using magnets schools as examples is not very useful as they are not reflective of regular school environments or student bodies.