The Problem With Education… people@All

Posted on | February 21, 2009 | No Comments

I am preparing for another week of classes and giving more thought to how I will teach than what I will teach.

After a week and change of the current semester it is clear to me that the teaching exercise is a pretty easy mix of show and tell.

Think about the best part of your primary school education! Show and tell was always a hit and if you have any doubt go and find a grade 1 class tomorrow!

The problem of course is that we have moved so far away from the teacher /student coeducation relationship (what show and tell is all about), to the dump it on me from above approach, that the idea of anything coming from the ground up is unthinkable!

So this week I am going to institute a show and tell aspect to my university class where 3 students, they will decide who, have a chance to show/teach/initiate the ideas that build on or pull in another direction the flow of the lesson I am preparing.

Talk about walking the wire.

Why not pull the class from the ground up?

Fear, hard, risky, odd, unusual, less control… you pick the reasons.

If the educator and those who are being educated are given more power, responsibility and ability the whole mix of learning moments might translate in to a far more meaningful education.

Maybe!

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