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These teachers made room for playful exploration and student passions in the classroom, helping their students to develop the purpose that drives them.
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Scooped by Kathleen McClaskey |
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Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Discover why it is important for learners to discover their passion through play so that they can find their purpose.
I have long been an advocate of finding activities that promote creativity and innovation in students. The seven key skills Tony Wagner lists for students don't involve any specific content. While I do believe these are vitally important, it seems unlikely that they will replace specific academic standards any time soon. Because fostering creativity has been an important part of my life, and I have seen it do wonders in the lives of students, I would definitely encourage my teachers to utilize teaching methods and activities that enable this to occur. Interdisciplinary learning, team collaboration, risk taking, and cultivated intrinsic motivation are definite assets to students in the real world. But in our present situation we as educators need to find ways to pass on these valuable lessons while still teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic.