Hey, so I realized last night that I never talked about how Apprentice Learning has to do with education before the college level. I think that we need to switch our teaching styles now to reflect a kind of learning that students can live with later. What I mean by this is that we need to give students real-life problems to solve, as compared to handing out a worksheet to them and ask them to find the subject and verb. Instead of doing that, I think that we should have them write something themselves and ask them to review what the subject and verb are of what they just wrote.
Instead of doing math worksheets of 25+j=30, we need to give them the strategies needed to solve word problems. The world will never give any of us (though I wish it could) a math problem like this. It will be more likely that it will give us a problem like: I know that the movie was $25, but I wanted popcorn as well, and it ended up being $30 for everything, so how much was the popcorn?
Apprentice learning, I hope, is what we are getting closer to with each generation of teachers that are going into the field. I know that I have been continually taught to get rid of the worksheets, that it would be best if you burned them in a bonfire.
By teaching in apprentice learning style, we are helping students understand the real-life applications of how learning this affects their life. By teaching, we don't have to try and answer the honest and logical question, "Why do I need to learn this?" That is what I think is the case, anyway, it may be that, in fact they still ask that question. However, it would not be a logical question anymore because you are showing them while you are teaching them why they need to know this.
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