M2U3A3 Video - Re-imaging school environment and learning

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  1. Hi all.
  2. Welcome to my podcast where I'll be talking about some
  3. of my ideas and vision for what the future of
  4. education and schooling looks like for me, I emphasize vision
  5. because I understand that much of this is um not
  6. a reality, but I believe as teachers, we can work
  7. towards um achieving this in this picture.
  8. We can see there is diversity and this is something
  9. that we have talked about a lot in it.
  10. Obviously exists in our classrooms, schools, towns and cities, provinces,
  11. countries and on an international level.
  12. And unfortunately throughout history, these differences between us have had
  13. social and economic consequences and have often resulted in conflict.
  14. In fact, very rarely have we had any kind of
  15. global unity and peace and appends me to say.
  16. But unfortunately I don't see this becoming much of a
  17. reality in my lifetime, at least due to obligations of
  18. power and wealth.
  19. And again, I emphasize that it is my my vision
  20. for a more peaceful uh and sustainable future.
  21. And I think as a teacher, we can promote this
  22. uh in our schools um and and for our students
  23. and they may be not be able to have an
  24. immediate impact on the world, but they can have an
  25. impact on their families um as mothers fathers um and
  26. on their communities.
  27. And I think this is hugely hugely valuable, I think
  28. um how do we go about doing this?
  29. It's it's really important to establish some kind of international
  30. and worldly curriculum and that is especially language and culture
  31. intensive. I think an understanding and celebration of diversity as
  32. noted in this image, promote equality and unity.
  33. I think it's important to have that understanding um of
  34. our differences and how we can use these differences to
  35. unite towards a common goal and for me that common
  36. goal has to be peace and sustainability for for our
  37. future. I think within this core kind of curriculum, it's
  38. also important uh this core curriculum that is kind of
  39. geared towards a sustainable future.
  40. It's important to still inspire individual individuality and excellence.
  41. And I think this can be done through promotion of
  42. differentiated and individualized learning um and also promoting um individual
  43. as well as group projects.
  44. I think it's also important within this curriculum to have
  45. varied subject choices and for the curriculum to be research
  46. and tech heavy.
  47. Um if we're going to inspire students um to have
  48. a positive impact on their communities and uh to work
  49. towards a sustainable future together, it's important to learn with
  50. nature and to have an understanding and knowledge of the
  51. importance that nature and the environment can have um on
  52. our lives and on the future of humanity and to
  53. understand and and research and think about ways to preserve
  54. and and benefit from nature.
  55. And again, this doesn't have to be on a, on
  56. a global and international front and making changes in that
  57. regard, but it can just be within our schools, within
  58. our communities and at home, I think to add to
  59. this, it's a good, it's a good way segment to
  60. bring in collaborative work I think, working together with um
  61. with teachers, homeroom teachers, um school school directors and principles,
  62. parents and also people working in the community with the
  63. school to understand what's best for the school um and
  64. what's best for the community and to be able to
  65. work towards that in a collaborative manner I think is
  66. hugely beneficial.
  67. Yeah. And lastly, I just like to emphasize the um
  68. well the importance that I would place on extra curricular
  69. activities for developing and developing skills and competencies that we
  70. may not be able to see or promote too much
  71. um to a greater extent in the classroom.
  72. And I think um such activities like such as physical
  73. activities camps, uh group camps, community development environment, environmental protection,
  74. such as beach cleanups, cleaning up the streets, um and
  75. even growing vegetables at the school, vegetables and herbs at
  76. the school can really play a big part in in
  77. making us better people and leaders in our communities that
  78. are striving towards a common goal, which as I said,
  79. is a more peace