How Should Education be Transformed? (Guest Post by Occupy High Students)
Note: I have been following the Occupy High Students since October 2011, and have been inspired by their continued effort to transform their own education and to show people of all ages that “student’s do care about their education”. I have also had the pleasure to work and get to know many of them along their teachers/co-learners, Ned Dougherty and Josán Perales. I am excited to be able to share with you their ideas about education transformation.
There is no explicit curriculum to help a teacher instruct for a year about public education. Perhaps because in doing so, the teacher wants to avoid engaging students in metacognitive strategies every class of every day. Perhaps because we don’t believe that students can engage in the discussion about transforming education. Perhaps because, if we opened this can of worms, we would be admitting defeat every lesson in which we question the direction of what we are doing.
I believe it is time to open this can of worms pedagogically. The only snag is that we have convoluted public