The
Classroom Is Obsolete: It's Time for Something New
By Prakash Nair
In this article, Nair states that the classroom is a relic
from the industrial age, and that no amount of reform will improve student
achievement unless it radically changes the classroom as we know it. He says ,“The research demands a personalized education model to
maximize individual student achievement. Classrooms, on the other hand, are
based on the erroneous assumption that efficient delivery of content is the
same as effective learning.” How would this
classroom look? Nair believes the stakeholders in education (from parents,
students, and teachers to elected officials and business leaders) should be
involved in the discussion. Although each community might come up with
different principles of education, Nair has listed 12 of the most essential
ones. The educational principles in the article were things like inquiry-based,
student-directed, collaborative, interdisciplinary, hands-on, environmentally
conscious, and offering strong connections to the local community and business
while still networking globally. He advocates involving community members and businesses more in the students' education,
not breaking the day up into blocks, and having multiple teachers and even
parents working with the students.
I like the idea of not
breaking the day up into blocks because if students know they’re leaving each
class after an hour, they often try to simply endure it and then move on. It’s
not enough time for a teacher or a student to really explore a subject or
concept. If students could work on a project for more than one hour everyday,
they could produce something to be proud of. Once you become an adult and leave
school (unless you are a teacher), your day is no longer broken up into short
segments of time. In most jobs, professionals work within longer time
constraints in order to get the work done properly. I also like an interdisciplinary
approach because subjects work together. Language Arts will be involved in
every single project a student does, and there are very few projects that don’t
involve technology. The other subjects also do not exist separately from each
other, and most can quite easily complement each other. I am definitely in
favour of changing the modern school in a radical way because our students, our
teachers, our society, and our global community have changed our world so much
that traditional education isn’t standing the test of time. These days,
students don’t always see the value in education. They have access to as much
information as the teacher does, making the opportunity for collaborative
learning an easy and practical approach.
I see your point and totally agree with you. We are not teaching our kids as if we are producing drones from a factory. But our current educational system does exactly that. We need to change the modern school in a radical way but with teachers' guidance.
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