1. “Piaget urged a reciprocal relationship between teachers and students, where respect for the teacher coexisted with cooperative and student-centered pedagogy.”
It is crucial to students that they are able to develop a fair, equal, respectful relationship with their teachers. For a student to reach optimal learning, teachers must first be able to focus in on their students learning styles, interest, weaknesses and strengths.
2. “The teacher leads and directs this curriculum, but does so democratically with the participation of the students, balancing the need for structure with the need for openness.”
In this article students had a voice when it came to their education. Rather than the teacher taking over the classroom, students incessantly participated in their education.
3. “What students bring to class is where learning begins. It starts there and goes places" Learning first begins from outside the classroom. It is important to a students learning that they are able to relate to the material. Students are interested and care about what’s going on around them. Change starts with education.
This article focused deeply on classroom structure as well as inquiry-based learning. In this article, the classroom environment allowed children to feel safe to ask questions, learn from one another and explore different ideas and opinions.
I could really relate to this article because I went to The Met high school. The Met high school really focuses on empowering students to ask questions, share ideas and advocate for themselves and their education.
I was recently talking to someone from AmeriCorp who worked with students in an after-school program. We began discussing how classrooms are producing people without thoughts. I know this sounds silly but its true.
In classrooms today, students are taught through test-based curriculums, where they quickly learn that the only thing that matters is the right answer. Through this style of teaching, students’ ideas and thoughts aren’t challenged. They begin to stop questioning, to stop critically thinking, to stop analyzing and to stop thinking.
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