What Are The Ingredients For Self-Directed Learning?
===> Perhaps children don’t need another reform imposed on them. Instead, they need to be the authors of their own education.” <===
A MUST read and watch also the video:
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
This is what was found: "The students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience, when they learn things that matter to them and when they learn together. In such a setting, school capitalizes on rather than thwarts the intensity and engagement that teenagers usually reserve for sports, protest or friendship..."
Much of this can be started from the home environment. Curated for www.homeschoolsource.co.uk