Tuesday, May 3, 2011

David Eggers on Once Upon a School

Students work better when they have one on one attention for their teachers. Now why aren’t there more opportunities for this in every neighborhood? There are tutoring facilities all over the place but no child wants to say that there are being tutored. Every kid wants to say that they go and do their homework in the back of a super hero warehouse or a pirate supply store. How easy would life be if kids got in the habit of doing their homework right after school?  This is such a beneficial skill to all kids. If they can learn to manage their work by getting the one on one attention that they need. Kids have a chance to express their creativity to one person that can help them channel that into their writing and speaking. If tutoring centers can find a way to make tutoring more enjoyable kids will find a way to grasp these skills and use them to become better students. What matters from this video is that this one person had an idea to help kids in their learning and that turned in to this incredible place where kids want to come and do their homework. This turned into a sanctuary for writing. Kids got the opportunity to be published and they learned how to become successful writers who were taught by newspaper journalists and publishers. IF this opportunity could be given to every kid they would know how to write and harness their creativity to become an even more successful writer.

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