Educational Reform ala 321 Fastdraw

The following animated 321 Fastdraw is actually a promotion for Montessori schooling but that is not revealed until the last frames.  The video is a powerful statement of why educational reform is needed and what the qualities are for good education.  It is a must watch:

Suggested changes include:

• Un-standardize education, personalize it, humanize it.
• Group the ages together (not by chronological age).
• Let there be a wide and varying mix of activities going on (in the learning environment).
• Let teaching, learning, leadership, systems thinking, community be part of the fabric of the classroom environment.
• It should feel like a family, your family, not a factory.
• Throw out the tests. Let students do hands-on, meaningful, real world projects where they can figure out what works and what doesn’t, what’s successful and what fails.
• Let students own their learning.
• School should be filled with awe, wonder,and joyful learning.

These qualities or characteristics should be found in any learning environment.  I do see Montessori, as Trevor Eissler promotes, as being a viable approach and discuss it further in  Montessori Methods – Worth a (Re)Look.

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