Review of Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates, by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
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Students' 10 Expectations of Schools are the new Imperatives (Animation) from the new book, Leaving to Learn, by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski.
Students' 10 Expectations of Schools
Relationships: Do my teachers, and others who might
serve as my teachers, know about me and my interests and talents?
Relevance: Do I find what the school is teaching to be relevant
to my interests?
Authenticity: Is the learning and work I do regarded as significant
outside of school by experts, my family, community members, and employers?
Application: Do I have opportunities to apply what I am learning
in real-world settings and contexts?
Choice: Do I have real choices about what, when, and how I will
learn and demonstrate my competence?
Challenge: Do I feel appropriately challenged in my learning and
work?
Play: Do I have opportunities to explore and to make mistakes,
and learn from them, without being branded as a failure?
Practice: Do I have opportunities to engage in deep and sustained
practice of those skills I need to learn?
Time: Do I have sufficient time to learn at my own pace?
Timing: Can I pursue my learning out of the standard sequence?
A website with significant 21st Century learning resources accompanies the book at http://www.leavingtolearn.org/.
The book can be purchased here.