I had the pleasure of attending the "Thought Leadership Consortium" at St. John's Episcopal School in Olney this weekend. Those in attendance got to hear teaching expert Starrette Galanis and best selling author Daniel Pink on the topic of re-thinking education in our country. Pink emphasized reasons for changing how we prepare our kids for the future: "The best strategy in business is this: iterate to the world something it didn't know it was missing. To my mind, that's what an artist does...We want kids to be design thinkers; design thinkers solve problems in new ways." Amen. Pink's books, A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future, Free Agent Nation, and Johnny Bunko focus on the rapidly changing world of work, and what we need to excel in it. His website is here.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Daniel Pink on Education
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Dr. Galanis, the Associate Head of School at St. John's, must be a great teacher; every lesson of hers includes a chance for children to: listen, read, write, speak and move. She noted that in assessment, instead of asking children, simply, "Do you understand?" we should be asking them, "What do you understand?" Thus, we would be assessing their actual learning, not simply their memorization skills.
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