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“People ask me, 'How do you get the children to memorize The Canterbury Tales In Old English?

“People ask me, 'How do you get the children to memorize The Canterbury Tales In Old English? I say, 'It never dawned on me that they couldn't learn it .’ ”. Marva Collins: A Thought leader. Kristen Bell and Tracey Lee DImsoy. Background Information.

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“People ask me, 'How do you get the children to memorize The Canterbury Tales In Old English?

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  1. “People ask me, 'How do you get the children to memorize The Canterbury Tales In Old English? I say, 'It never dawned on me that they couldn't learn it.’”

  2. Marva Collins:A Thought leader Kristen Bell and Tracey Lee DImsoy

  3. Background Information • Born August 31, 1936 in Munroeville, Alabama • Family put great emphasis on education during childhood • Attended Clark College (today’s Clark Atlanta University) • Taught in Alabama for two years, then moved to Chicago to work as a medical secretary • Married Clarence Collins in September of 1960 • Taught in Chicago’s public system for 14 years • In 1975, used retirement to fund The Westside Preparatory School

  4. The Westside Preparatory School • Founded in 1975 in Garfield Park, an area in inner-city Chicago due to dissatisfaction with quality of education at her children’s private school • First students were her children and neighborhood children • Students were considered “learning disabled, problematic, and/or borderline mentally retarded” • Every child scored at least five grades higher at the end of the year • 1996 – 60 Minutes program documented when Westside student graduated college Summa Cum Laude • Westside students went on to some of the nation’s most prestigious universities (Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.) • Socratic method of teaching

  5. Contributions to Education Socratic Method Direct Teaching Philosophy

  6. Socratic Method • A method of teaching in which the selected material contains content that challenges a student’s logic, promotes critical thinking, and advocates classroom discussion • Encourages participation, encourages self discipline, reduces disciplinary issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eo87pX5W74

  7. Direct Teaching Philosophy • Collins used classical literature and other abstract content/subject material • Asks students to make predictions based on the information given to them (develops cognitive skills) • Identifying the purpose of the information • Establishes an intellectual environment that promotes vocabulary expansion, idea building, gaining conversational and textual information, and requires attention of all participants • Teaches abstract thinking/critical thinking

  8. Awards and Recognition

  9. Awards • The Jefferson Award for Benefiting the Disadvantaged • The Humanitarian Award for Excellence • Legendary Women of the World Award • Honorary doctoral degrees from universities – Amherst, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, and Clark Atlanta University • The prestigious National Humanities Medal from President Bush in 2004

  10. Recognition • “The Marva Collins Story,” starring Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVXddnMxVKU

  11. “Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.” -Marva Collins

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