Marcy Barton and her overhauled curriculum - Creative Confidence #25
Marcy Barton, a fifth-grade teacher with four decades of experience in her field, was helpless seeing creativity draining out of kids.
But after attending a design thinking workshop, Marcy restructured her entire curriculum from the ground up, setting up design challenges.
In her next history class, kids didn’t just sit quietly and read about the colonization of America; they flipped their desks over and climbed aboard the ships that would take them to the New World.
They didn’t just write math problems on the board; they used their mathematics skills to precisely calculate the size of the scale models they’d need to create a miniature American colony.
Not only did the students show marked improvements in their standardized test scores, but more importantly, parents noticed that their kids asked better questions at home and began to engage more with the world around them.
Lesson:
Everyone can solve problems in new ways when they are not afraid to be creative.
Start writing the new story of your working life.
[Creative Confidence Newsletter: 25 of 25]
And this marks the end of month-long torture. Will be back with more, soon. 😈
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