Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Challenge is a P.B.H. program designed to motivate, in a small classroom situation of 6-10 kids, Cambridge children in grades 6-8 who are underachievers in their schools (this year, a high school program has been in process as well...
...Mike, expressing his "All You Need is Love" philosophy developed during his summer at Head Start; there was Jon defending the legitimacy of being a pal, rather than authority figure, to his kids; there was Julia and Lisse stressing the importance of implementing practical projects to give te children a concrete feeling of success in the classroom...
...remember how I myself had looked forward for much of the summer to coming back early to Cambridge and preparing to teach in Challenge; how I had viewed it as an opportunity to expose children to the sort of education of which I felt deprived. It was the sort of education which would allow the children to experience themselves and one another in a creative, spontaneous and alive way; one levels of expression, sensitivity and communication...
...talked a lot during Orientation about the motivation which Challenge wanted to excite in the children--the motivation to "explore possibilities beyond the framework within which they have grown up." We talked of Challenge's wish not to impose values on the children but rather to show them a different set of values which was under their control to accept or reject. We suggested ideas for making the curriculum revelant to the lives of the children and for having it involve them in making and carrying through plans...
...children, shaped by their previous educational experience, found it difficult to respond to a teacher who desired respects a person, not as an authority figure. Often, one's class did not operate as a group but rather as eight, somewhat boistrous, separate individuals who seemed more interested in throwing paper air-planes out the window than in accomplishing something in the classroom. Gaining control over the class occupied time and energy that otherwise might have been used to motivate creative class...