Time, not Content: Daily Inspire!

Published: Tue, 03/01/11

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    Time, not Content
No method of learning is effective without adequate time. Time takes structure. "Structure" is a dangerous word in modern education because most parents and teachers were themselves public
schooled.
 
[Often,] when a parent decides to home school, she sets it up the only way she knows how--like a little conveyor belt. "At 8:00 o'clock we're going to do math, and at 8:50 we'll do English, and at 9:40 history," etc.
 
But they can never hope to teach students "what to think" as well as the public conveyor belt with its hallways, lockers, credits, grade levels and bells.
 
 
If the goal is teaching them how to think, we need to do it the leadership way. We need structure in order to give adequate time and attention to learning, and the key is to structure the time, not the content.

 
 
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Do you know what today is?

A person's a person, no matter how small!
 
Poet, philosopher and educator: what does Dr. Seuss have to do with today?
Enough concrete to build a 4ft. sidewalk how many times around the equator?
 
Speaking of keys, what did this one see by the dawn's early light?

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What's a "horticulturist?" (And what does it have to do with this day in history?)
And you thought last week was about Washington. Turns out, he wasn't just President of the United States. (What else? And how does it relate to this day in history?)
 
 

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