Innovator's Mind Set...in the begining
Why is innovation so crucial in education today? Innovation, when I think of the word, I think of a brilliant lightbulb, illuminated over the head of a person sitting at a desk. Eureka you might suggest is flowing from his mouth and they have a finger pointed to the sky. Isn't that, what we want most of our students to look like. Students with ideas resonating, asking questions upon question. Making connection through learning. Yet often we get the opposite, most students just want the answer to the worksheet to be in compliance with you the teacher so that they can get the grade to make their parents happy. Mark hungry students who can't seem to understand that learning is a process. Their parents know the drill, pay attention, memorize get good grades. Two semesters in a row I was fortunate to teach a gifted student who didn't need to be in my course to get the credit. He took grade 12 calculus instead of my grade 10 science. One day he came to see me for help regardi...