What do you see as the purpose of education? Why might innovation be crucial in education? "Change is an opportunity to do something amazing." How are you embracing change to spur innovation in your own context?
Picture From George Couros
It can be said that morality encompasses fairness, altruism, and empathy. These are what is considered crucial to our notion of humanity and what sets us apart from beasts.
The purpose of education is to empower students to be contributors to society and to give students the drive to care for others besides themselves.
Activating a student's internal drive is one purpose that I hope to embrace this year. Creating ways to get students passionate about a worthy cause is something that sparks students' intrinsic motivation to learn, to grow, and to ultimately be a leader.
Innovation is crucial to education because if we settle and continue to teach in the traditional academic mindset, it will absolutely crush curiosity.
Therefore, as educators, we must sieze every opportunity to innovate ourselves. If not, then we are not only fundamentally failing our students but our society as well.
I hope to push myself this year to model the behavior of being the continuous learner. We are tasked with making our students academically proficient-- but we must prioritize students understanding that they must leave school with a greater purpose, their "why," and to share their legacy with the world.
"You can't make anyone change"... But what you can do is create those conditions for them to "unleash their talents" and passion.
Innovator's Mindset, by George Couros #IMMOOC, Season 4
