Recently, I was asked to speak to the Department for Education and Child Development in South Australia, and they asked me for some advice to give to schools. What I felt was important to share was the notion of educators “experiencing” the type of learning that we talk about in their own professional learning. It is hard for anyone to change until they feel something different. Below is the short excerpt from my interview.
For more from this day, you can check out the entire playlist from my interviews as well as others. I really liked the idea of taking these short interviews (theirs, not mine) and using them as discussion starters with staff.
[…] By George Couros. Recently, I was asked to speak to the Department for Education and Child Development in South Australia, and they asked me for some advice to give to schools. What I felt was important to share was the notion of educators “experiencing” the type of learning that we talk about in their own professional learning. […]
[…] By George Couros. Recently, I was asked to speak to the Department for Education and Child Development in South Australia, and they asked me for some advice to give to schools. What I felt was important to share was the notion of educators “experiencing” the type of learning that we talk about in their own professional learning. […]
Good stuff. I have always thought it a bit ironic when we model for our teachers the exact opposite of what we ask of them…thanks for sharing!
[…] As a relatively new teacher I remember an “inservice” in which 100 or so high school teachers were subject to an extended lecture on the importance of group discussion in the high school classroom. So I knew first-hand early in my career the crazy-making experiences (my term, not his) that Couros cautions against in his blog post. […]