[etni] fw: Teaching students how to think - not just what to know
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Teaching students how to think - not just what to know
Haaretz - August 28, 2006
According to Prof. Anat Zohar, who was appointed last week to chair the
Education Ministry's Pedagogic Secretariat, "schools must change their goals
from instilling knowledge to developing the tools for in-depth understanding
and thought."
Zohar has set two major goals for her tenure: to teach students how to
think, and to reduce the amount of material they are required to learn.
In her first interview to Haaretz, Zohar argues that the mandatory
curriculum in Israeli schools is too broad to allow for in-depth learning,
and focuses on studying for the tests.
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.etni.org/news/how_to_think.htm )
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