LESS IS MORE: TEACH LESS… LEARN MORE…
This approach cannot be fostered in a model of
‘Marketization’. “Risk-taking,
creativity and innovation” are not fostered in a model of ‘Marketization’.
Professionalism is not fostered in a model of ‘Marketization’. In a ‘market’ model there are always winners
and losers. In education, every student needs to be provided with the
opportunity for individualized success.
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Why We Teach:
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What We Teach:
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How We Teach:
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Less Teaching… More Learning…
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Indicators
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Before…
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After…
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Teams
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Focused exclusively on individual learning
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Each student worked alone
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Wrote reports alone and had only teaching assistants
as a source of ‘answers’ to their questions.
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Students are in very structured teams
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Each individual has a role and specific
responsibilities
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Individuals are graded for both their work and the
group
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Group work can increase learning dramatically
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Streams
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Focused exclusively investigations, new topics, techniques
and objectives.
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Lots of learning
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Student comments: “Why are we doing this?”
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Far more time is committed to repeat, troubleshoot, and
rethink
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To master the literature, inquiry, method and
process of science
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Inquiry
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Students followed “cookbook” instructions
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Charged with performing lengthy tedious tasks with
unclear goals
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Students often recycled papers from the past to
succeed
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They were bored and interested in being done and
“going home”
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Students design their own experiments, i.e. perform
inquiry
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Generating the laboratory protocol itself becomes
‘original thought’
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Planning their experiments often proves to be more
powerful for learning than results or reports
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