October 26, 2016 - Teaching

I’ve written a lot about my ACN Business and developing my mindset there. I thought I’d let you know what I am doing with my teaching. I come down hard on the education system so giving you some examples of things the teachers and I do in class that may be contrary to the current way of teaching.

• I start each class with a small piece of philosophy. This week I was talking about how important it is to make mistakes. That making mistakes is the best way to learn
• Al has his students growing many different types of hot peppers. He is teaching aquaponics and propagation. How better to do that than by using plants the kids really want to grow.
• Conor is teaching landscape design in small segments. The kids have to have a rough drawing and finished drawing done in an hour and a bit. And the kids are loving their ability to express their creativity.
• Al has the kids researching processed food and applying their knowledge to their parents pantries. The kids are developing a very focused thought process about why there are so many chemicals in our food when all that plants need are much less complex than that.
• Conor is teaching his students how to look after a green wall. They learn how to care for plants growing in a fairly inhospitable environment. They are also researching the value of having pants in the interior environment. Cleaning the air by filtering it through their soil and releasing oxygen.
• Al is teaching his kids how to grow plants and fish through aquaponics – using fish to “feed” plants and algae to feed fish. These kids are learning leading edge horticultural technologies.
• Conor has a greenhouse and is teaching the students how to care for many different types of plants.

There are a lot of teachers doing pretty good work out there. But unfortunately there are very few great teachers. Both of the gentlemen I work with are great teachers.

Wednesday I start with a new school in Acton. I am very much looking forward to it!

Better post tomorrow! I promise!

Peace!