What a question! Here’s the definition of COMPETE: strive to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others who are trying to do the same. With that in mind, I say DON’T COMPETE! In fact, I would go as far as saying that any educator without a passion to cooperate in a [...]
Archive for the ‘curriculum’ Category
30 Mar
Reflections on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Holy Cow! I have read this book in sections for a class before… this time I read it as an entirely new person. One with fervent passion for being part of an education revolution. I practically underlined everything in the 1st chapter. Of course I appreciate this diametric debate between the oppressor and the oppressed, [...]
30 Mar
Reflections on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Holy Cow! I have read this book in sections for a class before… this time I read it as an entirely new person. One with fervent passion for being part of an education revolution. I practically underlined everything in the 1st chapter. Of course I appreciate this diametric debate between the oppressor and the oppressed, [...]
26 Aug
Engaging Curriculum
What gets kids into it? Is there really a way to get students to buy in, whole-heartedly, to the content of the course? I think that this is an incredibly difficult question to answer. In fact, I think that really the only way to really answer that question is to consider another question.
