Who's Teaching Who?

When Originateve opened up its first holistic studio in Esparza, Costa Rica, one of the first educational paradigm shifts that took place was replacing the all too old, "Teachers Teach, Learners Learn" model for what we came to call the MENACE: All mentors are apprentices, all apprentices are mentors.

Oftentimes a "class" ratio would be made up of 4 apprentices and 2 or more mentors hashing out some sort of a discussion as to what was the best way to go about our garden and why. As time went on in this manner we realized how much "modeling learning" our apprentices were actually getting. One of the basic requirements of a good mentor is to be a good learner and this means having great questions and a solid eagerness to learn. In a MENACE environment this becomes contagious and rubs off like poison oak spreading throughout the apprentice body in seamless, unidentifiable ways.

This week in my Kindergarten in Jinan we had a lot of fun learning about the planets. The question is: Who was teaching who?

Take a close look inside my class and listen in on how much fun we are having:

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