It appears
that the system of education is a mixed bag and brings up my earlier observations
about finding a healthy balance between the past educational systems and the
present and even future methods of teaching.
To completely dismiss and call our old educational system as poor,
ill-managed, or completely outdated is an extreme claim. Yes, it has outdated features, and yes, it
has qualities and methods that are serving a generation that is no longer in
today’s 21st century classroom, but there are some ways we were
taught in the past that are still worth incorporating into our own classrooms today.
Still, one
of the most critical arguments about education is how do we structure our time
and the actual “look” of the school year, and especially the school day?
Is the block schedule of one core class every
90 minutes the best?
Or is it a
more liberal schedule with a mixture of all the cores together?
Ultimately,
there is no easy answer to those questions, but there needs to be more research
and experimentation to find out.
Alternative methods of schooling like apprenticeship-style teaching
could be the answer, but it feels like there are very few schools out there
trying it. For me, it is still a
question of quality over quantity.
Right now, I worry most schools
are feeling the pressure of quantity and that is overshadowing any chance of
change. But it is still important to
remember that change doesn’t mean changing everything about education,
sometimes a small focused change can make all the difference.
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