How our competitive culture affects our students | Anna Farrell | TEDxWorthingtonED скачать в хорошем качестве

How our competitive culture affects our students | Anna Farrell | TEDxWorthingtonED

I would like to share my past educational experience and upbringing as I believe they present possible solutions to the detrimental communal value of stressing "success" which takes place in schools, which only builds hostile competition and limits students' ability to develop and prepare themselves for the future. For seven years, I attended a school where my classes were heavily focused on the humanities. I owe my greater emotional maturity to the humanities because it gave me a perspective of the scholastic trials I faced in light of everything else going on in the world. Mastery grading and interdisciplinary learning was employed and the result was a greater understanding of the ideas being taught. ​ Anna Farrell was born in New York City and is a senior at Thomas Worthington High School. Loving chemistry, she began the Thomas Worthington Chemistry Club and enjoys volunteering, blogging, and reading in her free time. Anna is the vice president of her class’s student council and is passionate about positively influencing her community. As a freshman, her science fair project about hybridization’s effects on fruit’s nutritional content earned her the Ohio Wesleyan Outstanding Achievement in Science Scholarship and the Ohio Nutrition Council’s Human Nutrition Award. Anna hopes to study neuroscience in college and become a physician. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx