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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva
This is very true. The problem is many schools have 'fixed' programs with little scope for individualism.
I taught year 6 last year and one of the first things they asked was about my Africa trip in the holidays. It was soon obvious they had little knowledge of countries / continents etc so I integrated a weekly homework task where they fish out a country / independant state out of a box (some 220 of them!) and they needed to fill in a 2 page report.
Took them almost 3 tearms to finish the box but they very much enjoyed it.
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I wish we had a school with relaxed policies like this.
Our teacher for social history got scowled for engaging us to the point we got interested and asked our parents and teachers questions.
She openly told the class a week later she was not allowed to teach outside of the curriculum, that she will NEVER tell us her opinion or point of view on a subject as this was deemed 'misleading' and 'coercive'.
So to get around it, she would direct us to material outside of the curriculum, but it would never see the classroom. She just suggested places it might be found.
A very engaged and happy class went back to being quite mundane.