Why Learning Should Be Messy. The following is an excerpt of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School, by 17-year-old Nikhil Goyal, a senior at Syosset High School in Woodbury, New York.
Can creativity be taught? Absolutely. The real question is: “How do we teach it?” In school, instead of crossing subjects and classes, we teach them in a very rigid manner. How to Ignite Passion in Your Students: 8 Ways Educators Can Foster Passion-based Learning. Project Based Learning. I have been researching, reading, thinking and pestering (mainly Darren Mead) on Project Based Learning or PBL for probably a whole year now. It’s something that I have wanted to do with my students for a very long time – I was conscious of the fact that if I did attempt it, I wanted it to be right – or at least working towards the essence of what real PBL is about. It was the visit to High Tech High (HTH) by Simon Brown and Jamie Portman that made me pull my finger out – reading, hearing and seeing what they encountered at the San Diego School made me think that this is what every student I teach, could and should experience. After each of the twelve lessons and post project sessions I wrote my honest reflections about what we did and my thoughts – please excuse the “slap dash” nature of some of the posts – I was going to rewrite them but I quite like the organic flowing nature of them so have maintained them to capture my true feelings.
LESSON 1 Monday 11th June – Period 1.