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Education Week, January 29,
2013
Apprenticeships are valuable
learning vehicles that have been dropped out of our educational environment.
In the rush to push every
student to go to college, we lost sight of the fact that not everyone needs
to go to college to build a career.
Going through an
apprenticeship, becoming a journeyman, a craftsman and finally a master is the
proper gradient to ensure each master is built on a solid foundation of
knowledge and experience.
Anytime
you address a subject, skill or ability you want to learn or teach be sure to
first break it down into the gradient steps that should be learned, and
approach them in the right order. Equally important, be ever alert to the
symptoms of the by-passed gradient when they manifest so you can backtrack and
get it right.
Dr. Maria Montessori demonstrated
this with her methods a hundred years ago.
Great masters of any activity do
this. They achieve their mastery by having broken down the subject of their
area of mastery into its parts and practice, practice, practice each of those
parts until mastered. Then they combine the parts into the whole of the
performance.
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