Teaching our Next Generation at NMS

Views of Learning at NMS

This afternoon as I was walking around doing my typical walk-throughs, I again, saw learning here at the Nichols as something very different than one might guess.

Yes, we have classes with the teacher standing in the front delivering the information.

... But that is at times, where they are needing to do so.  This is not the norm for 57 minutes or for more than an extended amount of time, for our teachers know our students learn best when they are the ones doing the learning.

More typically ...

One will see the students in the front ...

Giving a presentation or talking his/her fellow students through a problem.

 Or students working together, trying to figure out the best way to learn.

Or interacting with technology as a tool to help them learn.

Or even using paper and pencil as they work through their Digits online with their tablets.

More often than not, you will find our teachers as guides at the side of our students than the one in front of them.

When you do find them in front, they will be engaged in their lesson with the students guiding them through a discussion with their peers and with their teacher.

Like this one where we see a discussion where the students were doing the leading as Mr. Rothemich helped them through their thinking.

Or even ...

A guest speaker, Mr. Barry, from the community explaining for our students how what they are learning in STEM is what he is doing in his work.

I continue to be amazed at the ways and means we are able to educate our Nichols' students for the 21st Century they are going to be living.

It might not look like when we went to school, but it shouldn't; it should be made with their future in mind, not our past.