Talking to everyone about curriculum has been decently easy, and definately interesting. I wanted to share something that pertains to it, and is in my paper, (obviously not the whole thing), but something I was thinking of when I was doing this. For some reason this movie accepted really stuck out in my head recently.
There was this movie, which really had me thinking. It has its moments and although most of the movie is rather “immature” had some amazing thoughts. Accepted is a movie that came out not too long ago and it is about these students who do not get into college, one girl burns out, and the others are creative thinkers who didnt thrive in school setting. They make up a college and go to it; meanwhile other students accidentally get into their fake college. They then decide to run a college and they must come up with a curriculum. What they do is they take this huge whiteboard and they have each student write down classes that they want to take, and then they put these classes into action. Having students lead them and not calling any of them stupid. They at the end bring it up as their curriculum and mention that all students can also be teachers. We can learn best from each other and through experiencing and trying. They took this totally creative idea where everyone had the chance to be creative thinkers and have a say in their learning. Not that this would be as possible in a school setting seeing as how some of the topics for classes were not very good, but it allowed them to express themselves, learn, and be a part of their own educational experience with no limitations.
I just thought that random thought was kinda kewl.
If we could just take the students into consideration more and give them the chances I know that they would thrive. Of course you have the leader/follower problem, but that would swap based on the type of class (music, english, etc). I have always felt that my imagination was being force to be all schooled up, but getting away from that and trying to let our imaginations have a chance is really what we should be doing. I know I never gave up on mine, but it definately makes for an interesting time. Its not up to the students to give themselves these oportunities its up to the administration and the teachers to realize who they have what they like and try to help them learn, and grow.
This week was awesome thought, and I think that the this school probably does better then most based on what I have learnt this week.
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Also...I interviewed my Co-op who feels hes the one who gets to be creative, not the students. Erin a student whos incredibly intelligent and was not allowed into the choir because shes in all college prep courses and they would not allow her. She is in music theory though. And she feels like shes definately a product of the banking system. And Dianne a student from choir who finds choir as the "fun" part of day, but does not really even notice the lack of creativity because she has probably been deprived of it.
banking system in her college prep courses, not theory. We all get to play in there and create...its fun.
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