Catching The WAVE Of Knowledge-based Education Reform — The GOOD NEWS (Part I)
If there ever was a flipped classroom for adults to QUICK-LEARN about education reform it is here.
But, first let me explain. Flipped classroom is the style of teaching where the students do their homework as assigned reading at home, then come to the classroom to discuss with the teacher what was learned and prepped ahead.
Ed reform has had so many varieties over the ages so it’s hard to know where to start. VERY DISAPPOINTING are the books and articles which end up saying: And what you can do about it. (I’ve found over a dozen!) So, how many of us got NOWHERE?
Anyway, after 4 decades of experience, I think this Hirsch Wave is one of the best things ever — for TWO REASONS:
1 Knowledge-based curriculum is back in vogue, having been dismissed and deleted because knowledge was to be “constructed” meaningfully from the context of students’ experiences, and besides, content is obtainable “on the Internet”!
2 Knowledge-backed approach is gaining headway — away from the philosophical belief mindsets of past education leaders. Proof, evidence, research, best practice and other similar objective criteria are coming to the fore — challenging feel-good, subjective theories.
The best “flipped classroom” on the topic of Ed Reform is right here — Educhatter — on the Core Knowledge Curriculum. [Thanks P Bennett.] https://educhatter.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/knowledge-matters-why-is-the-content-lite-curriculum-in-retreat/#comment-18595
After reading the whole article you’ll want to follow-up the 11 links provided before engaging in the brouhaha. There is much food for thought, enlightenment and material for advancing the much needed reforms.
My suggestion is to start with #10— an articulate father (Sol Stern) having travelled the trusting-parent-to-dubious-parent-to activist-parent route.