Educators can and should be Innovators

Most public schools and school systems have curriculum specialists but not specialists in pedagogy or ways of teaching and learning.

The “what” of what needs to be known and support for content is available, while the “how” to engage, empower, enlighten, and nurture the love of learning and desire to know is often missing, lost, or stolen from the learning experience.

Within most democratic countries, legislation has led to hyper-accountability and exacerbated the technocratic practice of drill and practice through massive testing and teacher evaluations based on student test results.

Pathways Studio pedagogy encourages the love of learning and the desire to know.

There are many circumstances where pathways are critical. You could be a recent college graduate with a bachelor’s degree but no real-world skills. You could be over fifty and dumped after a long career in a corporation, or you could be a mom eager to get back to work after ensuring the kids are happy in the education phase of their lives. For these and many other scenarios, you need solid pathways that take you away from what you may feel is hell to new and greener fields of opportunity.

Most people embark on a career journey based on what they think they’re passionate about or the opposite; they don’t get to choose and do the menial work of society’s underclasses — 21st-century slaves.

Pathways out of a career disaster are usually engineered and rarely enabled by pure luck. The lesson in this short self-help article is: don’t take what you have for granted, and don’t assume the grass will be greener if you clamber to the other side of the hill.

Pathways are enabled by crucial skills that everyone should master. That applies to children and adults.

Those crucial skills are shown in the pedagogical model below and they’re explained on my website.

The pedagogical model supports questioning as a necessary method for educators to enable, empower, and guide student learning. It also considers the need for educators to take the time required to think and question ideas to promote understanding and practice thinking. Teaching that fosters a love of learning and a desire to know goes beyond the pouring in of knowledge from lecturing, repetitive drill, and testing.

Don’t wait another day to commence developing new skills and engineering your pathways to expand your career options.

Use the Inquiry Form at https://www.pathways.studio/ to request more information.

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Greg Twemlow, Founder, Pathways Studio

Skills + Talents = Potential Realized© 2022 — Copyright Greg Twemlow and Pathways Studio