Likely not a conscious choice, the garden at Symonds is an unofficial symbol of nourishment, connection, and being part of something greater in our world. Tom Julius, Director of the teacher certification program at Antioch New England Graduate School has referred to the ideal educational setting as an elaborate ecosystem. One main idea being …
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Child Driven Learning
Moving past the phase of getting students "culturally adjusted" to the classroom, I'm now focused on how we learn in the classroom. I've become increasingly aware of (and acutely frightened of) the idea of becoming a talking head teacher. I LOVE to talk in front of people, often to a fault. This comes from …
I will be posting again soon but in the meantime, here is a worthwhile bit to read at: http://www.oregonfoto.org/subroutines/eisner.html Here are the "Ten Lessons the Arts Teach" compiled by Elliot Eisner, one of the country's leading art educators. The arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum which …
Symonds school is a “Responsive Classroom” (RC). RC is a social curriculum used nationally (perhaps internationally, I don’t know). It was born in Western Massachusetts some years back. The Northeast Foundation for Children (NEFC) develops RC and promotes materials and workshops that help teachers and whole school communities develop common language and cultures of caring; …
Not your traditional take on music in the schools
The common wisdom shared among music educators when discussing the significance of music education usually contains figures on how music promotes skills in math and social sciences and that studies point to that fact that music is a catalyst for brain development. The good news is that there are very few (or perhaps no one) …
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