10-31-2011, 02:50 PM
What a cool project. (apologies for side trip, but as we're talking about school).
t
he REAL class concept sure beats the model I had -- being handed the textbooks and told to teach myself and work through them alone at my own pace. That was my fifth grade experience. I still have a memory of sitting there in class daily working, while the teacher worked with the class on stuff that was totally irrelevant to what I was working on. It wasn't fun.
Puna has so many creative and innovative individuals, that I'm not surprised there are projects like this. It couldn't all be stuck in the "no child left behind" mode, which I have heard parents blame for the schools catering to the lowest level of achievement.
Another thing my school did was give me a chance to do volunteer work on campus, outside of the classroom. Do they do that here?
I think it's so important to give kids a chance for individual independent expression and not to just sort them into groups where they all have exactly the same experience.
t
he REAL class concept sure beats the model I had -- being handed the textbooks and told to teach myself and work through them alone at my own pace. That was my fifth grade experience. I still have a memory of sitting there in class daily working, while the teacher worked with the class on stuff that was totally irrelevant to what I was working on. It wasn't fun.
Puna has so many creative and innovative individuals, that I'm not surprised there are projects like this. It couldn't all be stuck in the "no child left behind" mode, which I have heard parents blame for the schools catering to the lowest level of achievement.
Another thing my school did was give me a chance to do volunteer work on campus, outside of the classroom. Do they do that here?
I think it's so important to give kids a chance for individual independent expression and not to just sort them into groups where they all have exactly the same experience.