I was really impressed by what Maryland Middle School were doing in this video. I love the arts and I love learning within the arts. It's kinesthetic and visual and suits my learning style really well.
It reminds me a bit of our school where creativity and being creative is at the fore. Teacher's have known for ages that hands-on learning works better for all learners - I still wonder why so much of schooling is the way it is. There's some cool examples here like a science lesson might have "students choreographing a dance using locomotor and nonlocomotor movements to demonstrate their understanding of rotation versus revolution of the planets." Or a maths lesson might have "students learning fractions by examining composition in Warhol's Campbell's soup paintings." I wonder how learning might look like if I didn't have small blocks of learning followed by another and another; writing, then reading then maths, then inquiry... What if we did an intensive unit of work until it was finished? Does practicing something everyday help in the long run?
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