Peter Taylor, co-creator of FableVision
July 28, 2008
“Art should be part of the experience every single day.”
“Inspire imagination and creative thinking in your school and in your life.”
Help kids find their dot (re: “The Dot”, Shel Silverstein) and to connect their dots to other dots. His dot was art which he connected to storytelling and to math.
What’s your mission?
Thoughts
I like the idea of helping kids find their dot. I think that we often try to fit kids into courses and into ways of thinking, even while talking about child centered learning and constructivism. It’s a real challenge to take the time to know each student well enough to recognize his/her specialty and to help him/her use that specialty to understand, explore and experience the world. This idea challenges me to re-evaluate how I deal with student behavior in the classroom.
Such a simple idea that causes a whole paradigm shift. “What’s your mission?” That encompasses so much more than simply saying what’s your job. It begins to get to the reason for doing that job. It requires reflection, self-awareness, a purpose. I’ve been pondering on my mission since then and thinking about how to align my actions more closely with my theoretical mission.
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