The 3Cs

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preparing teachers for today, to educate students for tomorrow, to prevent schools from becoming a thing of the past.

1. Everyone needs to know and feel that he or she is needed

2. Everyone wants to be treated as an individual

3. Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed

4. An individual without information cannot take responsibility. An individual who is given information cannot help but take responsibility

Jan Carlzon’s book Moments of Truth

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
-Peter Drucker

Mr. Turkentine: Of course you don’t know. You don’t know because only I know. If you knew and I didn’t know, then you’d be teaching me instead of me teaching you – and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear?

“Video game designers have created such an engaging system that [kids] don’t care if they have to fail 100 times before they actually succeed,” says Etuk. “If you ask any teacher how she would feel about a child failing 100 times at algebra, but never giving up and even asking his friends to help him succeed at algebra, that teacher would say, ‘That’s the dream.’” Source: Administrator Magazine “Video Gaming During Class”