MCL National Summit Day 3

Let’s cut to the chase.  If you profess to be “for the kids” then the current system of learning is simply unacceptable.  Let’s change the current system so the learner is truly the focus. Educators have a moral obligation to change the system.  We must change it from a system where content is king to one where the learner is the intense focus.  How many learning facilitators are still concerned about “getting through the book” or “covering all of the curriculum”…,..too many.  If you have these concerns, then you are still a teacher.  The belief of a teacher is that your job is to dispense information to children in hopes that they may remember something.  However, the students remembering something is not your number one goal if you are a teacher.  A teacher is concerned abut curriculum and covering content.  A learning facilitator, on the other hand, focuses all of their energy on the learning of the student.  Barriers of time and space are irrelevant to a learning facilitator.  Grades and grade levels are immaterial to a learning facilitator.  The learning experience for the learner is paramount and takes precedent over everything else. If we are truly going to do what is best for kids and communities then let’s be committed to change…