13. Beyond the Classroom Limits |
How does Deep Approach go beyond traditional classroom? The deep approach transcends the boundaries of the classroom. If students are intrinsically motivated by their projects, naturally they will look for more resources after class, develop their writing at home, may participate in blogs at any time, may contact people abroad, and the teacher must keep up with a profusion of initiatives that may go in several directions. Thus there should be some systematic to meet each one each week, either certain precise days or at a specific time during class. This requires flexibility from knowledgeable teachers who feel confident in their ability to face diverse types of requests. The teacher becomes a model of self-sustainable, life-long learning, which precisely students are ʻmeta-learningʼ with the deep approach: this approach works if they learn how to learn. Thus classroom organizing depends much more upon the level of trust that is being created between the students and the teacher rather than organizational technicalities. There is a common threshold: everyone wants each one in the groups to learn a maximum in the direction of proficiency for a better understanding of the world. |
“Deep education is something people want to live and work for. It is never fully achieved, it is always in the making, and depends upon situation” |
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