Monday, July 29, 2013

Summer reading

While reading both of the articles, I tried to think about what we at the Upper School are doing well, and where we could do better.   I think that our language department, with the foreign travel and exchange programs, does an excellent job and building global connections on an interpersonal level. Educating our students to be moral citizens of the world is more of a challenge in an environment where our students and families seem to most want individual success in future careers. In spite of the obstacles, I'd like BB&N try to do more in this area. I think that the growth of the Model UN activity has been one step in the right direction. Both readings refer (minimally) to the importance of collaborating to creatively solve world problems. I think that we do a very good job and turning our good problem solvers, but I think we can do even more at getting our students to push themselves and be more comfortable solving new problems as opposed to blindly following algorithms given to them. Collaboration should be a big part of that.

Mark Fidler, Upper School teacher of Math and Computer Science

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