News and articles on topics relating to education innovation.
During the last 20+ years we have watched the incredible and continuing growth in the number of families that prefer to home educate, and because we work with both schools and teachers as well as homeschooling families, we have been able to listen to both sides of the table and watch the results.
Testing for the sake of testing marginalizes many students that do not perform well under pressure. And if that is the case. should those students pay the price because we do not teach them how do overcome a very real situation that they live with, along with the strategies that can be used to help them address and overcome such challenges?
How we seek to improve education should reflect actual problems we experienced ourselves at school, and that is where we should look for the greatest solutions, rather than just a reliance on technology.
Today’s system of education mass-produces learning and yet fails to enable the individual student to achieve their great individual potential. Enabling every student to achieve their great individual potential should be considered the Holy Grail of education.
All children are born with natural skills and talents and they should have those attributes identified and developed.