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The Paths We Take: Today's Educational System

Wrapping it up

We need to move away from rote memorization and consider that everyone learns and develops differently.

- I gained some valuable insight from this experience. I learned that others who may be quite different from myself may have the same goals in mind for our future generations. I was surprised that 3 out of my 5 participants had no plans of having children, yet they still cared about our current education system.

- It was challenging to get everyone together but worth it. I'm glad I was able to work with others in the class and some new faces as well. I was nervous and had a hard time reading under pressure. I'll practice more next time.

- It was rewarding to find it wasn't as overwhelming as I first anticipated. I also think my group was able to come up with some feasible solutions to some of our current dilemmas.

We need to encourage questions and tell children "why." Promote critical thinking early.

Explore the possibility of sending children to schools which promote their strengths instead of expecting them to all be alike.

Time for Action

Facilitating Discussion on Modern Education

Promote good teaching instead of punishing teachers who refuse to "teach to the test." Make sure each child has a teacher suitable to their learning style.

Take off some of the pressure. Let children know that they don't have to be good at everything to be considered a good child.

Pulling the Presentation Together

How do we learn?

How are development and learning tied together? Are they tied together or must we develop before we are able to learn?

- Babies develop their brains to the point where they can learn

- Nature vs. Nurture in regards to learning

Do we all learn differently?

- Yes, depending upon physiological differences

- Depending on their surrounding environment

- Yes, and what about people with disability?

Is there a right or wrong way to learn?

- Yes and no depending what you’re trying to learn.

- How do we measure immeasurable intelligence?

- Learning always continues

How does our current system work?

The Washington Post reported that 27 percent of adults in this country did not read a single book in 2007.

- TV is a factor and a problem

- In today’s schools there is not an emphasis placed on the arts and that’s a problem

- Schools stifle the learning process, creativity, and imagination.

- Simple memorization is a problem.

- But how do we measure critical thinking? We need some sort of standardized test.

- You need the ACT and SAT to get into college.

If you don’t do well you can’t continue your education.

Gallagher suggests four major contributing factors to the cause of readicide:

- Schools value the development of test-takers more than they value the development of readers

- Schools are limiting authentic reading experiences

- Teachers are overteaching books

- Teachers are underteaching books

There is the suggestion that we need to be emphasizing the following skills in order to make our students “expert citizens”:

Creativity, common sense, wisdom, ethics, dedication, honesty, teamwork, hard work, knowing how to win and how to lose, a sense of fair play, and lifelong learning.

Are these skills assessed in today’s education system? Should they be?

- These skills are the responsibility of the parents and society and not of the school system.

- We shouldn’t focus so much on who gets the best grades and more on the interest and passions of the child.

- Making well-rounded individuals is important.

- All too often we simply accept what we are told because that is what we’re taught in today’s schools.

There is also the notion that “unless we set realistic goals for our schools and adopt realistic means of achieving them, we run the risk of seriously damaging and leaving almost all children behind.

Gathering a team took a little effort:

Email: When our powers combine...

We are Captain Planet!!!

Maybe not, but maybe we can be Captain Plan-it... (groan...) Okay, I promise to never say that again if you read on...

I was lucky to end up with a fairly diverse group of people:

One betrothed couple who were both vegetarians and atheists, a married couple with two children and expecting a third, and a single woman working toward her degree.

Thank you to everyone who was able to meet and share their facilitation projects! I think our workshop was a huge success!

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