For starters, I’m happy that the findings Bill Gates shares in this video are finally surfacing in education research. I hope Action-Ed can help make good teaching easier, more enjoyable, and scalable in the years to come.
If you know a good teacher, share this post with them so they can know – once and for all – that nothing beats good teaching! (Note: the education portion of the video starts at the 9:00 minute mark).
Very inspiring. I think what needs to really be looked at and what resonates over and over in my mind is finding ways to keep older kids really engaged in learning as they move through the system. Having taught middle school, high school and Kindergarten I am in awe and in love of my kindergarten kids’s excitement and enthusiasm for school, their constant demands for homework and their refreshing comments such as ‘this is the best day of my life’, “I don’t want to go home”, or ‘school is awesome!’. Wouldn’t it be great to hear grade 10, 11 and 12 students talking like that?