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Turning education upside down with natural learning techniques?Children now entering the first grade will graduate from college and enter the workforce, in the year 2035. Can a rigid curriculum designed for the 1980s possibly prepare them for a world which we can’t predict, or begin to understand? Could creative teaching of lifelong learning skills possibly be the answer? Could this be the change in educational technique so badly needed?This highly readable account of an elementary school program that grew from the meeting of a renegade teacher, about to be fired by his principal for unorthodox teaching methods, with a highly creative school superintendent, with a group of failing kids on his hands. What they discovered, was that the creative teaching of creative learning skills, was in mind of the teacher, not in the curriculum. They also came to realized that the best model of how children learn has been right in front of us all along. Furthermore it's a method the children are use to, and are, almost without fail, comfortable with, having used it successfully all their lives. Besides being a heartwarming true story of classroom projects run amok as young children scramble their way back from the brink, it’s also a story of kids preparing for life and forging lifelong links.This book is a treasure trove of ideas for teachers who really want to change lives and help kids become all they can be. Here are some of the topics you will find compelling:Projects for the creative teaching of the whole child.Preparing the whole child for a lifetime of lifelong learning.How child centered projects free the teacher, allowing facilitation of real teaching and learning,through the use of natural, Intuitive, learning methods.Natural learning could not only change education, but revolutionize it.Understanding how children actually learn, through creative learning techniques.This book can become your Bible for those preparing to teach children, not subject matter, become a teacher of lifelong learners. Then students will take responsibility for their own learning, freeing you to their best resource and coach. Read this book and become a teacher of students, not of subject matter.