I very much enjoyed watching the documentary “Most likely to succeed” where it allows the freedom to truly create/adjust the curriculum that can best suit each individual. Rather than having a plan set out and benchmarks to reach with no regard to whether each individual understands or can even keep up, each student was given the opportunity to grow and develop within their comfort zone. Allowing that safe space to have the freedom of what they want to learn, you can tell that it keeps them continuously involved in their own learning. Also, taking away the stress of the need to know key formulas or facts for a test can take a lot of weight off one’s shoulders. I would love to see this kind of approach to teaching, I don’t really have any negative comments about this method as it relates to how I would want my teaching style to be.
Teaching with stories has been a part of our ways since time immemorial and to bring this back to the classroom is FUNdamental. Telling a story engages students. They listen, they can imagine and then they can retell what they have heard. This is all a great practice for the students to remember such information and within a story lies many meanings, many teachings and you can use a story in more ways than one for a lesson.
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