The Slow Education Movement promotes deep learning in the context of a broad curriculum that recognises the talents of all students. We believe the quality of the educational engagement between teacher and learner is more important than judging student ability by standardised tests. We support investment in education and in teaching as a profession as the essential moral foundation of society.
Fantastic - please keep pushing this!
Mark
Terrific to see this initiative coming into reality in a number of schools. It also seems to fit wonderfully well with our “Learning in Depth” program, which has similar aims. Power to you!
Excellent - we have needed this for a long time. Do keep it up! Can I also refer you to a wiki I set up some time ago which shares many of your ideas? See http://teachingpeople.pbworks.com
So, so refreshing to read about passionate approaches to truly deep learning without any reference to attainment targets! Our kids are responding and making vastly improved progress both in Nurture Groups and KS4 vulnerable setting.
This really does need a major research paper to maintain the momentum.
All the best in 2013!!
Hi there,
I think this is fab….as you can see from my websites I’ve just left education in one form to try and explore it in some others for our children…FLOW is something I’m really interested in-giving children TIME to become ‘ in the moment’ NOT because they’re about to do a test but because of the joy of creating, learning and so on.