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GETideas Virtual Roundtables

Join our Virtual Roundtables each month as we bring together Distinguished Education Leaders and the entire GETideas.org community for interactive discussions on important topics related to education transformation.

Week of May 17:   Student as knowledge worker, customer, volunteer: Implications for curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management and assessment?

Many educational researchers and practitioners, in particular Phil Schlechty (Leading for Learning, 2009), are proposing a new view of the student--as a customer rather than a product of the school, as a 21st century knowledge worker rather than a 20th century factory worker, and as an intellectual volunteer rather than a physical conscript. This view is controversial since it has many implications for the type of work students are given and the way they are treated.  

Educators who view students as customers provide:

  • Work that is intellectually, socially, and emotionally engaging
  • Opportunities for intrinsic rewards such as pride in relevant and authentic products
  • Learning environments that are personalized, flexible, and enabled by the latest technologies

How would this description of today's students be viewed by your staff members and why?

What needs to change from a leadership perspective to shift the paradigm to student as customer?

What are the implications  in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management, and assessment practices?

Three of our Distinguished Education Leaders will contribute their ideas and insights.

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Our Distinguished Education Leaders

Dr. Katie Brochu
Superintendent
Whitfield County Schools
Dalton, Georgia


Dr. Suzanne Freeman
Superintendent
Trussville City Schools
Trussville, Alabama


Dr. Nancy Wingenbach
Superintendent
Orange City Schools
Orange City, Ohio

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Upcoming Virtual Roundtables

We'll be hosting important discussions throughout the coming months. Here's a list of upcoming Virtual Roundtable topics.

  • April – What policies need to be in place for you to move to digital content rather than textbooks?
  • May – Student as knowledge worker, customer, volunteer: Implications for curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management and assessment?

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