Teachers As Architects

There’s a phenomenon that teachers don’t always account for when planning their learning sequences and units – what students bring to the classroom.

It makes sense that students might find it helpful to know where they’re going with their learning.

Instead, we’re constantly pursuing knowledge to improve the learning of those we serve. And as new challenges pop up every day, week and year, we continuously strive to find new, effective ways of meeting these challenges head-on.

But to become a learning architect and have maximum impact on students, a teacher needs to become very deliberate in his or her teaching practice.

Our Teachers as Architects of Learning program helps answer the question: why doesn’t school work for every child?

What has teaching got to do with being an architect, you might wonder? Doesn’t one teach students, and the other design expensive buildings?