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| Dr. Abraham S. Fischler President Emeritus of Nova Southeastern University Advisor on the Future of Education for The Center for Creating the Future Contact information: E-Mail [email protected] 954.262.5375 fax 954.262.3827 |
"The Next Step: The Child as the Classroom" ABSTRACT It's wonderful news that no school in Florida received a failing grade in the recent FCAT test results. However, the school's grade is an average of the students who took the test. This means at least 10 to 20 percent of the students within the school are failing to achieve the mastery of the material assigned to them. The current system perpetuates the notion that the class is the unit. The group's average means that at least 20 percent of the class is left behind because time is fixed for these students. I propose that we make time a variable so the students can achieve the mastery that is necessary. How can we give them the opportunity to be successful? We need a seemless educational system, where "the child is the class." If the child is not rooted in time, then the individual has the time he/she needs to achieve. This can only be done if an infrastructure is in place that frees the classroom teacher from being the sole provider of information. There is a great article ("Two Schools: Two approaches to personalized learning" by John Jenkins and James Keefe, Phi Delta Kappan, Feb 2002). Click HERE for a summary... FOR MORE ON THIS TOPIC, CLICK HERE |
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