Product reviews for Unhomework

Avoiding stagnation at all costs and maintaining an enviable passion for children and the learning process, MC is a teacher who thinks outside the box, outside the classroom, and outside the norm. He transcends the perimeters of the classroom walls and takes his students with him! Fanatical about teaching and learning, he endeavors to make learning exciting, meaningful and memorable for the students. He seeks strategies that give his students opportunities to investigate real world knowledge, taking learning to the next action-packed level. Think maverick innovation, the unexpected, movement-oriented, and a little bit crazy... then you'll be on the right track.
Both as a teacher and a parent in daily contact with adolescents I believe there has been an erosion in the ability of young people to engage in rigorous analytical thinking, creativity and problem-solving. It would seem to me that Mark's UNHOMEWORK addresses all of these skills. UNHOMEWORK stresses that the role of a teacher is crucial in not only guiding young learners in their search for information, but also to provide the tools to evaluate the usefulness and veracity of that information and to formulate their own thoughts and arguments on the basis of it. At a time when a curriculum and exam driven education system straitjackets even the most dynamic teacher, so that schemes of work and lessons often become stifling and not stimulating, UNHOMEWORK inspires the practitioner to not only facilitate thinking skills and PLTS but to also build in opportunities for young learners to become creative, critical thinkers: room to make lots of mistakes, to build resilience and know HOW to learn anything they choose to. UNHOMEWORK emphasises the need to give all young people a huge -˜toolbox' of thinking skills -” a toolbox they can dip into at the most appropriate moments. MC reminds us that it doesn't mean we don't teach the basic skills of literacy & numeracy but we choose skills driven methods to allow children to see the different ways there might be to learn things.