I scribbled a bit on one of the interview titles and share this on Instagram a few weeks back, but I think it raises a very valid point.
How do we get students to take the leap of faith? I should add to this How do we get TEACHERS to take the leap of faith? We need to challenge the boundaries of how things are currently being done. It scares people. There is comfort with staying the course. This is needed to a certain extent, but we have many students and kids that we are losing because they are pushing the envelope and we are losing ground more and more every year.
The first thing that has to happen is to "engender trust"(page 94). This is nothing new, but we have to connect to the emotions of people(students and teachers) and bridge in a quality product(lesson or project). As we push the boundaries we have cannot lose sight of keeping things simple and the focus of the goal. It is easy to fall off the course and make things more complicated than what it needs to be.
As we try out new ideas and push the boundaries we cannot be so narrow in our vision. We must look big picture and figure out how all the "different pieces of the experience need to be fused into a cohesive whole?"(page 97) With this thought I think of staffing. Each educator brings some unique and different to the landscape of education. Not every teacher can be the same. Educators need to make up several different roles. We must learn and figure out how to blend these educators into "Design Teams" that create an experience for each student to gain maximum learning opportunities.
You can read Part 1 here
Part 3 drops tomorrow.
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