Blog written by Luke Wilcox, 2018 Michigan Teacher of the Year The craft beer revolution has taken over the United States. No longer are people flocking towards factory-produced mediocrity. Instead, they are savoring the unique flavors that are being batch produced through innovative brewing processes with interesting ingredients. What can education learn from this whole craft beer movement? Start by thinking of our students as the product of an intentional brewing process. Currently, we are standardizing curriculum, standardizing teaching practices and standardizing assessments, which looks a lot like the factory model for mass producing beer. The product we are trying to produce is a standardized, ready-for-college robot. This may have worked well in our world 50 years ago, but the world has changed. Our world demands a community of diverse and individualized thinkers in order to solve complex issues. And we need to start cultivating these problem-solvers in our classrooms right now … using Craft Education. Here are the top 3 strategies for achieving this outcome: 1. Provide students with choice in their learning. Each individual student has their own interests, passions and struggles. Each has their own motivation for success. Each has their own method for constructing new learning. Providing choice for students allows each to connect with their own natural curiosity and to create their own individual path to understanding.
Using Craft Education, we can create a community of diverse thinkers who are ready to engage in our global world and find solutions to problems that don’t even exist yet. To achieve this diversity of thinking, we must acknowledge and celebrate differences in our students – and to appreciate each student’s unique flavor.
For more details on the idea of Craft Education, see my TEDx talk from University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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Dr. Brian McDaniel
2/18/2018 09:58:23 pm
Cheers my friend! The concepts of student interest education was championed almost 100 years ago with the Progress Education Movement. The work of John Dewey in the 1920's encouraged students to dream, create, develop, and refine ideas based on emerging fields. Today we find ourselves in another "new world" with the emergence of advanced robotics, internet commerce, and the global economy.
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