Re: The responsive Classroom
Posted by sm on 6/27/08
On 6/19/08, Jennie wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with this? I know that class meetings
> are an important component. If you are familiar with it,
> please let me know what you do in your classroom and if it
> works.
> Yes it works but you need to guide it, channel it, foster
it and be comfortable with it. I actually find the
responsive classroom to be a lot of common sense if we think
of children as future citizens of a democracy. I'm sure I'd
also find schools out there where responsive classroom
wouldn't work but it works great in our school and in my
classroom.
You are still the guide - the children are learning how to
self-monitor, be leaders, and some children are NOT
comfortable with it. In fact, you'll find some kids trying
to deliberately sabotage it. There are kids who don't want
other kids to take any leadership, have any seeming power and
those are the kids who will try to sabotage it.
Remind those kids and all the others that school is supposed
to be preparation for life and there's no time like the
present to try to learn how to be a citizen, how to take
charge, how to discuss differences, how to work toward
compromise and consensus.
In fact, are there more important skills than those? And yet
most curriculums really don't include such things in any real
way.
> thanks
Posts on this thread, including this one
- The responsive Classroom, 6/19/08, by Jennie.
- Re: The responsive Classroom, 6/27/08, by sm.
- Re: The responsive Classroom, 7/12/08, by Chris.
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