New experiences Guide the Learning

Wow! This article really made me think. When the boy said he had never been inside a car it made me do two things... one, realize how good I have it. Two, see what the students I will have in my class have and have not experienced. I DREAM of teaching in low-income schools and school in other countries so this is real life stuff to me. I have seen this in person already and have been in class with students who have never been inside a car before. I think the teacher in this situation is doing an awesome job of getting these students out and about to learn their vocabulary with real life stuff. Just from that one field trip, the students were reading, learning definitions, and math! It is awesome to see administrators at this school trying to get it right. These children are the ones most see as being doomed for failure... this school is trying to change that!