A few days ago, I was chatting with Lindsea on Skype about a variety of topics: music, education, and the need for adults to communicate more often and more in depth with students. We briefly brainstormed a few ideas we each had for the EduPunk challenge, when we arrived at the following slogan for her Street Art campaign: “Education everywhere. Take back your education.” We discussed the idea of Guerrilla Learning, and the idea that we realized was repeatedly emerging was this need for students and teachers/adults to meld their networks.
This is the first paragraph from my latest post for the students at Intrepid Classroom. I am reposting it here along with a link to the post in its entirety in hopes that any teacher or adult who is reading this blog will be motivated to come join us and add your voice to a growing community of teachers and students.
It is time that we join forces and stopping talking about our students and start talking to them, with them. I hope you will at least comment on the post or better yet, come join the Ning and be a teacher at the INtrepid Classroom! We are thirty something strong and growing. See you there.
I’m still interested. School year winding down, will get to the ning soon.
Proud to join your band of learners, hope I can keep up!
I really enjoyed this article. One thing that I’ve always thought that teachers need to do is to empathize rather than sympathize with their students. There have been times in my high school times, years ago that I felt as if a teacher was trying too hard to befriend me. If they had been natural in their approach and tried to ‘feel’ where I was coming from, I’m sure many of the outcomes would have been much different.
http://www.atriskstoriesofhope.com/blogposts (My fathers website – he received Michigans 2007 Hispanic Artist of the Year award for his work with his students in the inner city of Detroit.)
Antonio
p.s. I subscribed to your blog as I found it to be very refreshing.