Why Inspire Nature?
Day Camp
In order for learning to last a life time, it must be forged in experience. Experience alone does not guarantee permanent learning: the individual must be seeking to understand more than what they already know.
To inspire permanent learning we need both an engaging experience and the desire to understand more than we already do. Teaching and learning are, therefore, two sides of the same coin and a two-way street.
And yet most of our formal school experience has been one-sided and incomplete. Most of the skills that we use in jobs outside of school were learned through life experience not school experience.
Inspire Nature came out of our desire to give our own children the opportunity to experience learning that will support them both in a traditional education, the jobs they choose and throughout their whole lives.
Collaborative inquiry is the process of how this rich, permanent learning can happen. The process of collaboratively inquiring taps into the essence of learning: asking a question about a real problem, actively listening to the response and working together to find real solutions.
When teacher and students are actively engaged in this dynamic experience, the learning becomes a permanent part of their lives and it lays a foundation of how to learn, how to ask questions and how to work collaboratively to solve problems.
To inspire permanent learning we need both an engaging experience and the desire to understand more than we already do. Teaching and learning are, therefore, two sides of the same coin and a two-way street.
And yet most of our formal school experience has been one-sided and incomplete. Most of the skills that we use in jobs outside of school were learned through life experience not school experience.
Inspire Nature came out of our desire to give our own children the opportunity to experience learning that will support them both in a traditional education, the jobs they choose and throughout their whole lives.
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| Building An Office |
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| With Computer and Keyboard |
Collaborative inquiry is the process of how this rich, permanent learning can happen. The process of collaboratively inquiring taps into the essence of learning: asking a question about a real problem, actively listening to the response and working together to find real solutions.
When teacher and students are actively engaged in this dynamic experience, the learning becomes a permanent part of their lives and it lays a foundation of how to learn, how to ask questions and how to work collaboratively to solve problems.
Inspire Nature is designed to teach about this essential process of learning. If we identify, act, assess and reflect on this process, then we can all become experts and lead our own learning for the rest of our lives.
Home Care
My work with the children at home is inspired by the Reggio Emilia school of thought. Use this link for more information about this approach: http://www.education.com/magazine/article/Reggio_Emilia/
Here are some photos of some provocations (or invitations to play) that I have recently used.
These rocks and marbles sat beside an open sandbox.
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