Educational Shifts With Inquiry Driven Learning
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This week, on The Parents' Solution, I had the opportunity to have a deep conversation with Dr. Traci L. Scheepstra.
Dr. Scheepstra is the CEO and founder of an education-based non-profit called Embodied Learnings. She is an award-winning teacher, and educational researcher, elementary art specialist and a teacher mentor. Traci's work focuses on curriculum, pedagogy and research in the fields of holistic curriculum, experiential learning, arts-based education, indigenous knowledge, safe-school initiatives, and mental health and wellness.
Traci is a teacher with 30 years of experience in the education system, most of it in public schools and as a university professor in teacher education. During the pandemic, Traci noticed that key issues were being highlighted in the school system. In the name of safety, innovation and creativity were removed from schools, as were processes that helped children feel whole. As a result, Traci saw an exodus of parents and families who took their children out of traditional schools. These families opted to create alternative schooling for their children in a way that they felt would be more helpful for their child's growth.
Nowadays, Traci is discussing a new project of creating a school based on student-led learning. The curriculum will encourage inquiry-based learning with plenty of hands-on and outdoor experience. It will be more student-focused and less technology-focused.
Traci said, "We really need to be thinking about teaching to the heart, not just to the head. We need to connect to the whole child."
There is much to look forward to and discover with alternative teaching that supports student-led learning. As with all ideas, there will no doubt be a period of trial and error. However, it is much better to aim for the best educational experience possible than to settle for a system filled with serious flaws.
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