How can we Rethink Education? That is the “wicked problem” that my Think Tank has been challenged to answer. This week,we were asked to come up with 3-5 guiding questions that will help us tackle our wicked problem. Our think tank brainstormed questions that helped get our minds in a place to begin to tackle this problem. Our discussion focused our thinking on these essential questions:
- Why rethink teaching at all? (to explain why we think it’s important to address?)
- Why can’t we rethink teaching and maintain a balance with the demands of standardized testing to ensure that students have multiple paths to demonstrate their learning and teachers have multiple paths to assess it?
- Why can’t we restructure and rethink teaching and what is taught? (e.g. mixed age groups/age homogenous, coteaching and collaboration/teacher as independent, active/passive, teacher as facilitator/sage on stage)
- Why can’t we come to an agreement on a common vision of what it means to be a teacher/to teach in 21st century schools and why can’t we create an effective system for providing teachers career-long support and development?
Through more research and discussion our think tank will work to design a solution to this wicked problem that will hopefully impact not just the students in this course, but our current classrooms.
Click on the link below to view my Infographic about Rethinking Education.
https://infograph.venngage.com/publish/ebffbeb3-6a2e-4b6b-af44-50c1d9a111af
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