Monday, July 21, 2008

You're kidding me, right?

Camp Education « Jay P. Greene’s Blog

"I think it’s worth thinking about what we can learn from camps to make schools more effective"
As a parent of 5 kids, let me give this some thought...

Is he crazy... my kids waste enough time at school on silly projects with no educational value.

My son's gifted class last year was a lot like camp. The teachers idea of math enrichment was having them do some crazy number wheel.

Creativity is a mantra, not an teaching tool.

More like camp... he seriously didn't say that did he?

3 comments:

Redkudu said...

We're already doing this. We call it Project Based Learning.

Redkudu said...

And TFA is providing the counselors.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps my post wasn't clear. I meant that the staffing of schools might be more like camp, not the content. I agree with you concerns.