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When Student- Driven Action Becomes the Curriculum

When Student- Driven Action Becomes the Curriculum

Erin Dowd
Pedagogy, Curator

In a previous post called Rethinking Classroom Design to Build a Culture of Problem Solving, I wrote about how a colleague and I changed how we thought about the beginning of the school year. In this post, I write about the same group of students several months into the year and what can happen when foundations of independent thinking, solving problems, and taking action are established as integral parts of a classroom culture. 

Rethinking Classroom Design to Build a Culture of Problem Solving

Rethinking Classroom Design to Build a Culture of Problem Solving

Erin Dowd
Pedagogy, Curator

On the first day of school, the students knew what they were in for. Some of them took to the challenge of setting up the room beautifully, and some leadership emerged. Others clearly had difficulty working in an environment that was not controlled. This did not, however, sway me from my vision. Like me, they would just have to learn a new way of doing things. They would have to learn to trust their own thinking and trust each other.