Ask a person to describe a typical classroom and most people will describe a room full of desks, lined up in rows, and a teacher standing at the front of the room lecturing.
In most cases, that person would be right. Not much as changed since you or I went to school.
Education in the classroom of today, for the most part, still revolves around sitting and listening to all of the important information the teacher has learned, and now must "pass on" or teach to his/her students.
By this very nature, students are asked to be "containers" to be filled with knowledge.
Where is the engagement...the interaction...the creativity... the students' connections in any of this?
Is it any surprise that, when students are asked to actually think for themselves, they can't?
In order to be successful in the 21st century, students will have to have both education and creativity, both of which require a lot of their own thinking.
Sitting at a desk, listening to a lecture just isn't enough anymore.
In order to provide more of what students need to succeed in the 21st century, there has to be an awareness that what is typically happening in most classrooms, must change.
Change requires a team of dedicated people who have a vision for a school that is very different than the one he/she may have attended.
A team that is dedicated, committed and passionate about children and their education to forge ahead despite obstacles.
Opening a new school is nothing to be taken lightly. Rather, it's a HUGE responsibility that takes countless hours of researching best practices, planning every detail for several years at a time, visiting successful school, learning what NOT to do from unsuccessful schools and a strong, dedicated vision of what could be...
In other words, it takes education, creativity and a lot of our own thinking.
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