This moment education is rife with conversations around learning science, and within these conversations the vision of the classroom often consists of students who are mostly-passive recipients of the learning—told what they need to know and then asked to regurgitate it.
Christian Moore-Anderson, author of the new book Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn’t Enough, argues in this conversation that there is a better way of moving forward. A biology teacher with nearly two decades of classroom experience, he offers not just a vision but also a path towards a classroom in which students have agency in participating in the meaning-making.
In other words, the type of classroom all of us should want for all students, right?
To explore more of Christian Moore-Anderson’s work, everything can be found at his website: https://christianmooreanderson.com/
Thanks, as always, to Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; and Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden.
Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.
Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro.
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