Includes a programme for teachers on Preparing for the Future:
- Thinking about the future
- Futures in education
- Changing the future
domingo, 21 de marzo de 2010
Teaching for a better world
David Hick's Teaching for a Better World
Includes a programme for teachers on Preparing for the Future:
Includes a programme for teachers on Preparing for the Future:
Reflecting on individual responsibility and learning
Should incentives be used to encourage individual responsibility? (this entry is part of a larger journal entry)
Perhaps incentives are connected to priorities....are we more likely to do something if there is a reward for it? Definitely, but to what extent should we be rewarding behaviours in the classroom and how? I would rather that someone do something because they are really truly interested and not because they might receive something in return. However, this is where it becomes getting someone interested, or helping them find their interests, becomes difficult.
When i think about my social responsibility course - students can be quite free in chosing study topics that interest them....it is a broad, transversal subject....but simply telling students that they can choose a topic of their choice for a certain project isn't enough...often students don't know what interests them...or simply find it easier to do what their classmates are doing.
So perhaps the big question is how do we discover our own interests? i just asked my husband...and he says by doing a lot of different things!!!! something to consider no doubt when developing curriculum.
Perhaps incentives are connected to priorities....are we more likely to do something if there is a reward for it? Definitely, but to what extent should we be rewarding behaviours in the classroom and how? I would rather that someone do something because they are really truly interested and not because they might receive something in return. However, this is where it becomes getting someone interested, or helping them find their interests, becomes difficult.
When i think about my social responsibility course - students can be quite free in chosing study topics that interest them....it is a broad, transversal subject....but simply telling students that they can choose a topic of their choice for a certain project isn't enough...often students don't know what interests them...or simply find it easier to do what their classmates are doing.
So perhaps the big question is how do we discover our own interests? i just asked my husband...and he says by doing a lot of different things!!!! something to consider no doubt when developing curriculum.
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