Friday, April 8, 2011

Rick Wormeli's Keynote

In the keynote to open the events on Friday, April 8, Rick Wormelli suggested teaching in 4 Dimensions:


1) Expertise: Teachers must develop this in content and teaching and be confident in using it.


2) Creativity: The questions are kids ask because of our teaching are more important that those the answer in response to it.


3) Failure: Schools have to learn that what is important is how we *recover* from failure; labeling a student a failure and moving on is not a supportable position.


4) Collaboration: We have to recognize the social construction of knowledge and allow/ encourage students (and ourselves to work together.)

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