How do we transition between techniques, utilizing effective questions?
This week, I had the opportunity to read four very interesting articles on the importance of asking the right questions. The article that stuck out to me the most was titled Pursue Passion: Demand Google 20% Time at schools. This article talked about how companies (such as Google) employ a 20% time mandate where employees are encouraged to work on personal passion driven projects 20% of their work tie every week. Results have shown that this is a much better strategy to see breakthroughs than forcing creativity the old-fashioned way. The author of the article tied this in with modern school structures. Students do not have a say in what they study, they are expected to know certain things in a defined amount of time to get good grades to move on to the next task where everything is repeated. I did not grow up with this structure, I was allowed to pursue my passions while in school. I feel that giving students the choice to pursue their passions academically is extremely important. Asking students what they would like to learn would help them build autonomy and ignite their passion for something that interests them. These reasons are why I decided to pursue agriculture education. Agriculture education programs allow us the flexibility to tap into students personal interests through SAE projects or CDE teams. Imagine the amazing things students could learn or create if we ask the right questions!
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Olivia, once again you do a great job connecting the readings to personal experience! Moving forward, I challenge you to find ways to apply them to the ag classroom and how you can utilize what you have learned from them during your student teaching internship next semester.
ReplyDeleteOlivia, I would be interested to see this 20% rule implemented in the classroom as student autonomy is still a bit of a challenging subject for me!
ReplyDeleteThis makes my heart happy!! I implemented the 20% Time project into one of my sophomore level classes last year. There is a book on 20% Time and how to implement it in the classroom. I highly recommend it. It comes with guides and templates to utilize in implementation. Here is a link to the final presentations that my students created: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rVCnDnNVK6BaLwykw3lINAP5gu4K4KHy?usp=sharing I'd love to offer anything that I can to helping anyone implement this.
ReplyDeleteMy summer book DRiVE by Daniel Pin talked about 20% time! I think its a great idea to implement it. Especially if students have a lot going on with projects, assignments, or even CDE events.
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