When We Allow Their Imaginations to Shine

Int. Education

Step 1: Watch this

Step 3: Ponder the creativity and the ideas that come forth when we empower students and then get out of the way so they can learn.

Step 4: Leave Sarah a comment.

I’m once again left thinking about Dan Pink’s book Drive and the power of Autonomy, Purpose and Mastery in education.

4 thoughts on “When We Allow Their Imaginations to Shine”

Lindy Buckley May 24, 2011, 5:52 pm

jeff, I tried to leave Sarah a comment but wasn’t able to type in the comment box.
I thought it was amazing! Such a great deal of effort and thought, but it certainly paid off. Please pass this on. Thanks!

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Doris May 25, 2011, 10:43 am

Beautiful……….love the violin!

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John van Goch June 1, 2011, 9:46 pm

Absolutely wonderful!
Reverse instruction?
Teachers, learn from this!
John, KAS Taiwan

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Dora Mendoza » The Thinking Stick October 16, 2011, 4:20 am

[…] English when I graduate from KSU) I found a great post in Utecht’s website. It is called When We Allow Their Imaginations to Shine. It is about a video that a teacher and her students created for Shakespeare’s Romeo and […]

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