I’ve been given the opportunity at our district’s administrator’s meeting to take 20 minutes and provide some type of Professional Development. That’s not a lot of time but understandable given their agendas.
I decided this week to present some ideas from Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat . I used these key sections from his MIT lecture:
- 11:10-12:10 Comparison with Columbus
- 15:30-18:25 Globalization 3.0
- 35:34-42:00 Vertical to Horizontal
- 46:00-47:39 The World our Kids will Grow up in
This isn’t as powerful as the whole lecture or obviously the book but I hope it begins to challenge our thinking around an education system that is largely based on old world standards and hierarchy.
Those days are done. We do have a good number of teachers that realize this and have begun to change. But we need more. I hope that as leaders, we can provide the constant push to see change happen.
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