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Best Practices
(Compiled and edited by Frithjof Bergmann. Not to be cited without explicit permission from the author.)
- Diversify formats of learning, allow all to be used over the course of a day allowing students to specialize in the ones they are most attuned to: lectures, discussion, projects, apprenticing, simulations, mentoring and being mentored, computer assisted instruction.
2. Allow students sufficient time to seriously pursue intellectually or practically exciting projects on their own (stay out of their way when they are energized). Relate the more classical learning to conditions for doing these projects well. (Think of this as “just in time” learning). Thus teach basics of Math, English, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities when they become relevant to projects that the students want to complete. Do not dismiss or disregard knowledge of the basics; but teach them in a more effective manner.
Center for New Work: Metro-Detroit - Summary for New Economy Initiative
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"I have tried to evolve an organically integrated set of policy proposals that would have the power not only to stop the appalling deterioration of our country – her accelerating descent into a pit of cynicism, passivity, violence and despair – but that, instead, would define a step by step process leading us back to the path of our original mission: to becoming the greatest force on the globe in the struggle for a more humane, a more intelligent and a more life-giving culture."
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