Category: Learning
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A Community of Truth
In 2008 I began to explore the balance between teacher presentation and student participation in subject material in order to leave room for what I call the unfinished lesson. My lenses were Steiner’s educational philosophy, contemporary educators, theorists and futurists.My experience as a teacher showed me the longings of both teachers and students for a…
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Beholding Joy
How do we educate for the development of students as human beings where the emphasis is based on laughter, joy, heart based interest, and active participation as a key to unlocking all learning? Academics plays a role but there is so much more and academics is based in life force not dead conceptual thinking. Teaching…
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Discovering Balance
I am a teacher. I have taught kindergarten, elementary, junior high and high school students and throughout these years I began to see the need to address contemporary children and youth in engaging, enlivened imaginative ways. Modern children are alert, precocious and quick to ascertain the value of their learning and their time. To this…