Sunday, November 9, 2008
Sam Elam's Blog Post #2
Sir Ken's video was enjoyable and poignant. A point that he made that I found particularly engaging was when he said, "creativity is as important as literacy." As educators, we are all concerned with math, english, social studies, science, and then the arts are listed last. He accused teachers of "educating the creativity out of their students" by not allowing equal time for the core subjects and the arts. Students' creativity should not be stifled but embraced. As an educator it is our job to see our students' strengths and positively enforce them. There is an increased emphasis in schools that all children should learn the same things at the same rate, for example, the No Child Left Behind Act. That is why diversity of instruction according to learning styles is so important. We should not be afraid to let our students fail or let our students be afraid of failing themselves. We need to teach them to take risks and do what they love and channel it.
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I certainly agree with the point you made about it being our job to positively reinforce our students' strengths. However, in order for us to be competitive on a global front, we must have a rigorous curriculum. I think that we must, as educators, be astute enough to interweave the two. I do not have a problem with equal time for core subjects and the arts as long as there are learning objectives set and met.
I think you said somthing that most of us are forgetting and shoud not forget. Education is about the student and hopefully getting knowledge to them. We should look for the strengths and weaknesses of the student. If we see that they are a creative person and they love to sing, or dance or draw then we must find ways to bring that out. I mean its great that they can conjugate a verb, but do they really care. Also being competitivie on global market comes from the most creative people that learned to get organized.
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