Title: Revisionist History Podcast: Carlos Doesn’t Remember
Malcolm Gladwell (2016, July 6th)
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-remember
Civilized societies find their best and brightest and help them maximize their potential, this is called a capitalization. In this podcast, Gladwell asks if we, in the United States, are indeed good at capitalization. As educators we need to be looking at all of our students from all backgrounds to find their individual potential and guide them on a path to capitalize. This podcast profiles a student, Carlos, and a man named Eric Eisner. Eisner started the YES Program which aims at finding and capitalizing on the potential of students like Carlos in minority communities in Southern California school districts. Carlos Doesn't Remember (along with Gladwells nine other episodes) is entertaining and educational masterpiece.
Audience: Teachers, Educators, Patrons of education
Relevance: Inspires us to look for, encourage and promote student potential in unlikely people and places.
I like the above phrase "Relevance: Inspires us to look for, encourage and promote student potential in unlikely people and places." I think our students are, in a sense, "unlikely people" in that they are unlikely to receive the help they need from others. And we, as special education teachers, are also "unlikely people" because we are unlikely to refuse that help, not show empathy, or have a hard heart towards those in need.
ReplyDeleteThis excellent podcast causes us to fix a focused, uncomfortable look at our school systems that fail to offer the opportunity to the poor among us to reach their full potential. This applies not only to the best and brightest, but to each student in every classroom. Especially relevant is the finding that students need encouragement early on in elementary school. By waiting until the junior or senior years of high school, it may be too late to set a student on the path of educational success that leads to college.
ReplyDeleteThis excellent podcast causes us to fix a focused, uncomfortable look at our school systems that fail to offer the opportunity to the poor among us to reach their full potential. This applies not only to the best and brightest, but to each student in every classroom. Especially relevant is the finding that students need encouragement early on in elementary school. By waiting until the junior or senior years of high school, it may be too late to set a student on the path of educational success that leads to college.
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