An Evening of Philosophy...
Last June I was extremely privileged to attend an evening with Ron Berger at Campsmount School. Ron’s ideas regarding learning spoke volumes to me and I vowed that I would find a way to trial something based around his ideas and vision for learning. His work is far too complicated for me to explain in a blogpost – if you are genuinely interested, read his book ‘An Ethic of Excellence’. If you are not sure, have a look at the work of @davidfawcett27 and @pekabelo, as their summaries are far better than mine could ever be. From Ron’s talk, and some subsequent reading around, three clear messages resonated with me: We sometimes expect too little of our students and allow them to expect too little of themselves. We often set a task, receive an attempt, feel disappointed in it and rather than go back and give students the opportunity to improve, we settle for their first attempt, even though they may be capable of far more (if you haven’t already seen it, watch ‘ Austin’s Butterf