What can we learn about the lesson “Summerhill School”?
The idea of the school “Summerhill School” is different and new. New and different ideas make us feel a little bit afraid and shake our own ideas of something.
It is important to criticize, also new ideas, but we can try to imagine just the idea behind the school. I think the basic idea of the school is that they try to have another view of how to learn things. They are starting from the interests of each student and not from the curriculum.
What I try to learn from these approaches is, to think about how children can learn subjects. Of course, it is not possible – imagine you as a teacher of 30 children – to let each student start to learn what he or she wants to learn. But we can try to think about our behavior as a teacher, about our ideas of how we will bring students to get interesting at a subject, about how we are teaching.
For example, we can try to start with interests of the students, like the history of the “Middle Ages”. With this subject, we can also include music or language – like “What were their idiomatic expressions?”.
We can try to open us and the school system for such an idea of including subjects into the interests of the students and not teaching every subject just on its own.
Finally, it is about how we are learning, how the students going to learn and how we, as teachers, can try to catch the interests of the students and how we can fill them with enthusiasm for different subjects.
The idea of the school “Summerhill School” is different and new. New and different ideas make us feel a little bit afraid and shake our own ideas of something.
It is important to criticize, also new ideas, but we can try to imagine just the idea behind the school. I think the basic idea of the school is that they try to have another view of how to learn things. They are starting from the interests of each student and not from the curriculum.
What I try to learn from these approaches is, to think about how children can learn subjects. Of course, it is not possible – imagine you as a teacher of 30 children – to let each student start to learn what he or she wants to learn. But we can try to think about our behavior as a teacher, about our ideas of how we will bring students to get interesting at a subject, about how we are teaching.
For example, we can try to start with interests of the students, like the history of the “Middle Ages”. With this subject, we can also include music or language – like “What were their idiomatic expressions?”.
We can try to open us and the school system for such an idea of including subjects into the interests of the students and not teaching every subject just on its own.
Finally, it is about how we are learning, how the students going to learn and how we, as teachers, can try to catch the interests of the students and how we can fill them with enthusiasm for different subjects.
No comments:
Post a Comment