Meeting objectives without working yourself to death
Many teachers find themselves rowing their boats every day of the school year to get their students to get down to work. It's easy to think that they're lazy, that they don't want to do anything, and so on. For teacher Marie-Camille Coudert, this reality hides the real problem: the dysfunction of the traditional classroom as a whole.
Indeed, in this video on her channel, she explains that she understood that a different approach was needed than just grumbling about the indolence of certain students. After all, it's unfair to expect everyone to have the same notion of work, when that definition varies according to family background. Especially since, in a world that is becoming increasingly automated and risks leaving these generations with fewer resources, constantly demanding effort seems, in her view, paradoxical.
So, rather than working relentlessly to ensure that students are always at peak effort, she proposes adopting the adaptive classroom. A model that allows learners to adjust their efforts according to what they can do, without being penalized at the end of the day. For those interested in this approach, take a look at this other video she has produced on how this type of teaching works.
The evolution of education in France is far from following a peaceful path. It was marked by numerous clashes and aborted attempts that resurfaced several years later. This is the case with the ideas of Ferdinand Buisson or Paul Robin around secularism and co-education in schools. Through several collaborations, these two precursors laid the groundwork for what leads us today to Civil and Moral Education, in schools that have become mixed since the 1950s.
An ecopsychological approach developed by Joana Macy that helps pedagogy to integrate the challenges of life. Moving from the closed spaces of the school as a monofunctional place of transmission from brain to brain to open spaces of relationship of the whole being in connection with its environment.
The theory of learning styles covers some obvious realities: learners do not all learn the same way, you don't need a degree in psychology or neuroscience to know that; but what is being strongly challenged today is the use made of this theory in the design and delivery of training, whether in-person or online. Educators are therefore the first to be affected, and invited to update their knowledge.
