I saw him speak yesterday. He's a principal now and leading the way by innovating with kids first. He is one of the few out there that understands we teach children not subjects, content, or standards.
Dr. Ryan Jackson is a daring educator who lives, breathes and walks his talk in advocating for students that others might disregard. His competitive learning model is one educators everywhere should model!
I agree with a lot of your points, but here are some questions I took away: 1) What about students that are not very motivated by competition. I was one of those. I don't have a competitive streak. How do you include those students in a system that revolves around competition? 2) How do teachers keep from getting railroaded by bad policy and legislation if they are supposed to just go with it. There is a time and place for bringing complaint and pushback. I think most people misunderstand that time and place, but I strongly disagree that we should just trod ahead and try to make the best out of everything, without ever trying to make it better. This is how we lost our right to representation and bargaining. This is how charters are eating larger and larger sections of our district. This is why we get less time for planning each year. How are we supposed to defend reasonable expectations if we are never to voice dissatisfaction?
Obviously, when you state that 'underdogs have the passion to prove the majority wrong', you are only talking about yourself and some fellow über-competitive underdogs. From this standpoint, I can see that is was in fact competition that drove you to excell. But this has only got to do with your specific kind of personality, and nothing with the larger scale effect of competition. Research shows only devastating effects of competition on a great set of personality traits such as intellectual devenopment, creativity, moral judgement, and the ability to coöperate and see things from another perspective, in the long run.
I don't think he should be an educator. He means well but has distorted views due to his unfortunate experience. He doesn't seem to have the capacity to question the very structure of our educational assumptions. Read the actual relevant research rather than these selectively chosen anecdotes that serve current distorted models of assessment, and skillfully spoken here to sound most noble while also omitting the questionable aspects such as who gets the short end of the stick. Humans can be competitive in conditions that necessitate it. But competition is also is shown to create a typical stress response that inhibits cognition and creative thinking. Many major modern behavioral economists show this: Daniel Pink, Dan Arielly, Kathleen Vohs, Daniel Kahneman. He mentioned extrinsic motivation. He should know better that that's exactly what competition is. You don't learn to win. You learn to learn. He also praised grades. Another extrinsic motivator. He hasn't given his students the greatest gift, which is the ability to question the environment of manufactured, extrinsically induced competition. Instead he implants his old underdog identity into the students. Then he talks about alienation. Mkay. Not seeing his model is based on finding an outgroup to alienation and make "other".
This is BS and has been disproven over and over. Just take a look at educator Alfie Kohn. He writes on how competitioon damages children in the education system. Plain old conditioning.
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I saw him speak yesterday. He's a principal now and leading the way by innovating with kids first. He is one of the few out there that understands we teach children not subjects, content, or standards.
Dr. Ryan Jackson is a daring educator who lives, breathes and walks his talk in advocating for students that others might disregard. His competitive learning model is one educators everywhere should model!
Thank you, Janet. I respect your work and appreciate the encouragement.
Please share your ideas. Honored to hear your thoughts and consider your feedback imperative.
Dude that was sooo powerful!
this changed my life. I'm now a millionaire swimming in bitches, thanks g 💯
I agree with a lot of your points, but here are some questions I took away:
1) What about students that are not very motivated by competition. I was one of those. I don't have a competitive streak. How do you include those students in a system that revolves around competition?
2) How do teachers keep from getting railroaded by bad policy and legislation if they are supposed to just go with it. There is a time and place for bringing complaint and pushback. I think most people misunderstand that time and place, but I strongly disagree that we should just trod ahead and try to make the best out of everything, without ever trying to make it better. This is how we lost our right to representation and bargaining. This is how charters are eating larger and larger sections of our district. This is why we get less time for planning each year. How are we supposed to defend reasonable expectations if we are never to voice dissatisfaction?
Rather than the competition , you could benefit from the cooperation of the tribe, because we are all social creatures! Best of Luck!
He looks so different in this then what he looks like today
Obviously, when you state that 'underdogs have the passion to prove the majority wrong', you are only talking about yourself and some fellow über-competitive underdogs. From this standpoint, I can see that is was in fact competition that drove you to excell. But this has only got to do with your specific kind of personality, and nothing with the larger scale effect of competition. Research shows only devastating effects of competition on a great set of personality traits such as intellectual devenopment, creativity, moral judgement, and the ability to coöperate and see things from another perspective, in the long run.
Ria Anne Simoens Agree.
Whoo Boy! That gave me the chills!
I don't think he should be an educator. He means well but has distorted views due to his unfortunate experience. He doesn't seem to have the capacity to question the very structure of our educational assumptions. Read the actual relevant research rather than these selectively chosen anecdotes that serve current distorted models of assessment, and skillfully spoken here to sound most noble while also omitting the questionable aspects such as who gets the short end of the stick. Humans can be competitive in conditions that necessitate it. But competition is also is shown to create a typical stress response that inhibits cognition and creative thinking. Many major modern behavioral economists show this: Daniel Pink, Dan Arielly, Kathleen Vohs, Daniel Kahneman. He mentioned extrinsic motivation. He should know better that that's exactly what competition is. You don't learn to win. You learn to learn. He also praised grades. Another extrinsic motivator. He hasn't given his students the greatest gift, which is the ability to question the environment of manufactured, extrinsically induced competition. Instead he implants his old underdog identity into the students. Then he talks about alienation. Mkay. Not seeing his model is based on finding an outgroup to alienation and make "other".
I understand your point of view. However, what if the students do not see point of competition?
Insightful. You make some great points through your competitive teaching model.
Thanks, Dennis.
great lesson
A red-headed white kid with the last name Jackson during the age of Micheal Jackson...we ALL are underdogs!
I like to work and study in a competitive ambient and interact with others.
If it could spread this idea of competitive model teaching...
This is BS and has been disproven over and over. Just take a look at educator Alfie Kohn. He writes on how competitioon damages children in the education system. Plain old conditioning.