Let’s face it, our current educational system was designed for the industrial age.
All students sitting in a row receiving the same teaching in the same way for hours. Doesn’t that look like a manufacturing production line.
This system is failing the majority of our students. I think that if you were to design a learning environment to fail, it would look like a classroom.
Just imagine 27 different young students, 10 variation of the multiple learning styles, an overwhelmed and “under-resourced” teacher, a few learning-challenged students.
Add to this some parents not wanting to be involved in the education of their children or seeing teachers as the “bad guy” and we wonder why so few students enjoy learning. Yes, I admit that some of our teacher aren’t as good as others at what they do. I think that most of our teachers are doing a great job given the conditions they have to teach in. They are often having to teach curriculum that is not within their stengths or passion. Tenure often precedes qualifications, gifted musicians are teaching science, athletes are teaching music just so they can keep their job. To add to the stress on the system with school funding that keeps being cut, classes are getting bigger. This is a recipe for educational disaster!
Here is something I have known “intuitively: for a long time. That a mid-day ’siesta’ now has some scientific proof to support it. Watch this video for ScienCentral.com
Every day, after a good meal at lunch, I like to take a nap and I find that it gives me a lot of energy back. My mind is clearer, I am back at my top productivity and effectiveness levels.
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There is a crisis in the human resources climate, as critical as the climate crisis. Talents and passionate people are being wasted, positions are filled with people that do not like them. It is time to change or simply allow change to happen.
Our current thinking and education system is failing.
Here is a video of Sir Ken Robinson that I recommend for your viewing.
I just found this great video that I felt really brought the point I made in an earlier post about how video, more specifically Online Videos, can revolutionize education.
This is a great presentation by Salman Khan, from Ted Talk 2011. In this video he talks about k-12 education but I believe what he is saying can be extrapolated to Adult Education.
