The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

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Dr. Charles Reigeluth, Thembi Duncan

7 episodes

4 days ago

Chapter 7 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about the ways that the structure of a school needs to change in order to transition from the Industrial Age educational paradigm to a paradigm that prepares learners for the Digital Age. Dr. Reigeluth explains how small, collaborative, teacher-led schools that share administrative duties provide a strong alte...

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The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

6. How does school culture need to change?

Chapter 6 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, and his co-author Dr. Jennifer Karnopp about the ways that school culture needs to change in America. Dr. Reigeluth and Dr. Karnopp explain how, in order to achieve the learner-centered paradigm, schools much adopt a culture of strong, caring relationships, multi-year mentoring, multi-age grouping, getting rid...

3 weeks ago

19 minutes

The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

5. Is the current curriculum irrelevant to students' needs?

Chapter 5 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how the curriculum in American school must change over time and address the needs of the Digital Age to be most effective for students. Dr. Reigeluth highlights the importance of how critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, curiosity, creative thinking, and directing one's own learning contribu...

3 weeks ago

21 minutes

The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

7. How does school structure need to change?

3 weeks ago

23 minutes

The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

4. How should we redefine roles for teachers, parents, students, and technology?

Chapter 4 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how to shift the educational paradigm in American schools by redefining the roles of teachers, parents, students and technology. Dr. Reigeluth describes the transformative power of activating the student's role and shifting the teacher from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side" who supports ...

3 weeks ago

24 minutes

The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

3. How can we personalize student learning experiences?

Chapter 3 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how to truly personalize learning in the classroom. Building on the foundation of competency-based education, Dr. Reigeluth explains how project-based learning, just-in-time tutorials, collaborative team-based work, and student self-direction all work together to create a learner-centered paradigm. This ...

1 month ago

28 minutes

The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

2. Are we forcing students to fail?

Chapter 2 of 10. Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how America's time-based education system is setting students up for failure. When progress depends on the calendar instead of true learning, students accumulate gaps, confidence drops, and potential is lost. Dr. Reigeluth introduces competency-based education as a powerful alternative that allows studen...

1 month ago

24 minutes

The Education Crisis: What It Is and How to Fix It

1. Why do we need paradigm change in education?

Chapter 1 of 10. In this opening episode, host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about why America’s schools are in crisis, and why wholesale paradigm change is needed if American schools are going to be able to compete on the world stage. From poor international rankings to low proficiency rates in reading and math, Dr. Reigeluth outlines the urgent need to ...

1 month ago

24 minutes