The name of this post is key... Amazing teachers have been refining and developing the Mosaic Collective, an academy alternative, for well over 3 years I believe and I just found my way into the beautiful mess. Michael Schneider wrote a lovely post describing the project titled "What is Mosaic?" if you're curious about the basics; I thought it better to let the pro explain than the newbie.
And what a newbie I am: constantly overwhelmed, lost, making mistakes, stumbling... it's absolutely invigorating. In my third year of teaching, I was just starting to get comfortable in the profession, and I am so thrilled that Mosaic has interrupted that. Too much comfort is not good for the teacher or the lifelong learner.
I wrote the last paragraph about 3 hours before Michael tweeted:
@techfacil great modeling for students. Discomfort =\= bad. Means growth #cvmosaic
— Michael Schneider (@SchneiderMF) marzo 15, 2014
Glad to see I'm at least partly on the same page! Here's to more confusion and messy learning. What a powerful thing to model.
Stay tuned for:
- my initial ideas for Spanish (read: World Language) in Mosaic
- the most recent hurdle and my ideas for tackling it
- collaboration with some of the WL gurus around the country
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