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One of the interesting teaching methods I had the pleasure of seeing in action in a High School environment, was a teacher who would let his students learn orga
by froo 18y ago
One of the interesting teaching methods I had the pleasure of seeing in action in a High School environment, was a teacher who would let his students learn organically when it came to physics.
Essentially what he did was find out what his students wanted to learn about, and then teach that. Eventually what was happening was the students became more involved in what he was teaching - even to the point where they were going out and learning about things on their own.
I'm not sure if this was an experiment in teaching, or an actual teaching method. This was a school for students who failed to achieve their goals in their last years of high school (yr 12 here) but still wanted to achieve university entry.
- dangoldin 18y agoThat's a cool idea but I think most people would be hesitant to let the students decide what to learn since they might fear the students just want to relax. It would never fly in a standard curriculum here (US) due to the focus on standardized test scores. It seems a lot of these new ideas and processes can only be implemented in these types of fringe schools, like the one you mentioned.
- froo 18y agoWell I think that this method only really could have worked in that environment - given the students already had some exposure to the material in the previous year. I suppose this only really would have worked for the more difficult subjects aswell.