Duane F Smith
ASIN: B00CG7ZVD6
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 146
Turning education upside down with natural learning techniques?Children now entering the first grade will graduate from college and enter the workforce, in the year 2035. Can a rigid curriculum designed for the 1980s possibly prepare them for a world which we can’t predict, or begin to understand? Could creative teaching of lifelong learning skills possibly be the answer? Could this be the change in educational technique so badly needed?This highly readable account of an elementary school program that grew from the meeting of a renegade teacher, about to be fired by his principal for unorthodox teaching methods, with a highly creative school superintendent, with a group of failing kids on his hands. What they discovered, was that the creative teaching of creative learning skills, was in mind of the teacher, not in the curriculum. They also came to realized that the best model of how ...