I loved the TEDTALKS video and have been thinking about how I can incorporate this philosophy into the classes I currently teach. Due to accountability concerns from policy makers at the state and national level, we are so focused on NCLB, Learning Results and Standardized Testing. I wonder what a school's test results would look like if they truly tried to "infect" their students and give them one idea and the support and framework for them to carry-out what they are passionate about.
The stakes are high today. We cannot simply ignore the mandates handed down to us but I do think that we miss out on many valuable and enriching educational opportunities because of the stress teachers feel to cram information in various subject areas into the brains of our students. How many times have you heard teachers mention the fact that we don't have enough time in order to instruct our students in the core subjects?
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