LEARNING FOR REAL

Who will lead us through the twenty-first century? We must empower our young people to step up and take responsibility for their world. This will happen if and only if we act now in teaching them how to be the proprietors of their own process of learning. Presently, with our prescriptive and confining curriculums, we offer little to interest them or connect them to the world as they know it. They have no idea why they should learn what we are teaching. We must show them. By providing a meaningful, authentic purpose to learn academic content, students begin to see that they play an active role in their education. They own it. When they own it, they develop an intrinsic motivation to know, to do and to be more.