I’m a great advocate of children learning at their own pace.
With two kids of my own I can see they are both at different stages and looking at their peers it often has very little to do with age.
Many children in their school are being labelled at such an early age when actually they probably just aren’t ready for that level of learning.
Pushing causes stress for the child and parents too. This seems to ultimately lead to the child being put off learning at some of the most formative years of their lives.
Martin, I so agree with your assessment of labeling unnecessarily. We need to advocate for individual pace and pathways for ALL without labeling. Thanks for reading!
Schools paced to student's ability to learn and grow are an important contribution to our society. Advent of the Autistic children should teach us that not only does our medicine need to change but our education system also. There are now more alternatives for education than ever before. Too many children don't have access to them due to the cost their families can't afford. The system needs to change for the benifit of not only students but teachers and administrators as well as our country's economics. Let us make change gentle and easy for all - that's a huge challenge due to the huge investment in administrative structure. Change will come, but it will take many of us working together to accomplish it.
Schools paced to student's ability to learn and grow are an important contribution to our society. Advent of the Autistic children should teach us that not only does our medicine need to change but our education system also. There are now more alternatives for education than ever before. Too many children don't have access to them due to the cost their families can't afford. The system needs to change for the benifit of not only students but teachers and administrators as well as our country's economics. Let us make change gentle and easy for all - that's a huge challenge due to the huge investment in administrative structure. Change will come, but it will take many of us working together to accomplish it.
of wear & tear of it’s time! If we don’t shift our rethinking, we may as well end up repairing parts of the old beam and when it finally breaks, it may be too chaotic & costly to even know what we need or necessary for learning.
Hmm! this got me thinking about systemic and structural understanding of teaching vs instructions.Slow-School principle is thought provoking and would love to chat more about.
I love this analogy. I agree that we need to fix the foundation, not just redecorate. This does not mean throw everything out for new, but to slow down to determine what works for whom and how. I would love to chat more about this! Feel free to reach out. My email is jane@revolutionschool.org
This is a great idea.
I’m a great advocate of children learning at their own pace.
With two kids of my own I can see they are both at different stages and looking at their peers it often has very little to do with age.
Many children in their school are being labelled at such an early age when actually they probably just aren’t ready for that level of learning.
Pushing causes stress for the child and parents too. This seems to ultimately lead to the child being put off learning at some of the most formative years of their lives.
Slow learning. YESSSSS
Martin, I so agree with your assessment of labeling unnecessarily. We need to advocate for individual pace and pathways for ALL without labeling. Thanks for reading!
Schools paced to student's ability to learn and grow are an important contribution to our society. Advent of the Autistic children should teach us that not only does our medicine need to change but our education system also. There are now more alternatives for education than ever before. Too many children don't have access to them due to the cost their families can't afford. The system needs to change for the benifit of not only students but teachers and administrators as well as our country's economics. Let us make change gentle and easy for all - that's a huge challenge due to the huge investment in administrative structure. Change will come, but it will take many of us working together to accomplish it.
Schools paced to student's ability to learn and grow are an important contribution to our society. Advent of the Autistic children should teach us that not only does our medicine need to change but our education system also. There are now more alternatives for education than ever before. Too many children don't have access to them due to the cost their families can't afford. The system needs to change for the benifit of not only students but teachers and administrators as well as our country's economics. Let us make change gentle and easy for all - that's a huge challenge due to the huge investment in administrative structure. Change will come, but it will take many of us working together to accomplish it.
Linda, YESSS. We have to slow down to change, too.
I love slow school, one that's holistic,
inclusive and purpose driven.We need to
slowdown in adding new things everyday
and rethink, reevaluate repurpose, reject,
re-establish, rejuvenate and rejoice
learning and learning centres.No wonder
why change is not sustainable even when
it's most needed in the poor system of
mass socialization aka schooling!! It gets
worse everyday because we keep piling
up load after load with very old, rusty &
corrosive foundations, weathered by lots
of wear & tear of it’s time! If we don’t shift our rethinking, we may as well end up repairing parts of the old beam and when it finally breaks, it may be too chaotic & costly to even know what we need or necessary for learning.
Hmm! this got me thinking about systemic and structural understanding of teaching vs instructions.Slow-School principle is thought provoking and would love to chat more about.
Thank you for sharing this.
I love this analogy. I agree that we need to fix the foundation, not just redecorate. This does not mean throw everything out for new, but to slow down to determine what works for whom and how. I would love to chat more about this! Feel free to reach out. My email is jane@revolutionschool.org