Fierce Resources: Teacher Spends Two Days as a Student and is Shocked at What She Learns- Fierce Leadership Blog

This week’s Fierce Resource was originally published on The Washington Post and was written by Valerie Strauss.

Do you ever reminisce about what things could have been like…what you might do if you had the chance to do it all over again? Teacher Spends Two Days as a Student and is Shocked at What She Learns explores what the classroom is like for high school students and perhaps what may just be in the way of learning. As society shifts, workplaces are becoming more modernized, so shouldn’t the classroom as well? Imagine a classroom that functioned like Google. What would happen if students were expected to show up and work say, 75% of the time and the other 25% was focused on creativity, development, or connecting?

What could you change in your classroom or school to make learning more engaging? 

“I waited 14 years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a student for a day. It was so eye-opening that I wish I could go back to every class of students I ever had right now and change a minimum of ten things – the layout, the lesson plan, the checks for understanding. Most of it!”

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