In a personal setting with the award winning educator and overqualified comedian, educators overseas were able to enjoy an entertaining and enlightened view on learning/education in the 21st century.
The seminar/presentation started at the access point of thinking in different cultures and the introduction to his family life. Along with belittling Ontario's Special Education Curriculum, Dr. Zhao was also talking about the closed minds people around the world carry with them into classrooms and life.
The introduction of what Dr. Zhao was talking about was aiming to inform as well as entertain educators, that the learning taking place is growing to accept exceptionalism from various sources in society.
Moving on through the roundabout way of explaining how to understand what makes students work, and coming to the idea that the people who come out of education in the 21st century, need to self-actualize and determine what their potential is and find their use in society.
Honestly, for myself, he spoke of things that our school has recognized a long time ago-maybe some people needed to hear this again and maybe some people forgot. But in the end it was an interesting mix of comedy and a presentation of a professional "hot topic".
Later in the day, Dr. Zhao introduces the ideas of what can be successful in the class in regards to numbers, could also be detrimental to students.
Exhibit A) Vocabulary in English class, can one test every two weeks exponentially increase/improve vocabulary of students? Surely not, is there a short term grade influx that we could observe in some students? Potentially, yes. But overall, how can we improve long term benefits through assessment and evaluation?
Thought 1) don't provide conclusive feedback/grade until students have completed the work that they need at the end of the actually learning goal, otherwise, why would they improve?
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