在获得硕士学位后 人类发展 来自太平洋橡树, 丹尼斯·史密斯曾在幼儿教育和儿童保育方面担任过一系列职务, an administrator for Early Head Start and Head Start programs; a director of Michigan’s tiered quality rating and improvement system (TQRIS), 也是一家致力于从摇篮到职业教育改革的非营利组织的副总裁.
“我试图模仿太平洋橡树为我改变传统、冷漠的课堂模式的方式.哈德森说. 队列模型告诉我, ‘You’re going to have to engage; you’re going to have to be present; you’re going to be responsible—not just for your learning but for the learning of your cohort members.这就是太平洋橡树素来以负责任和问责著称的地方, 以及真正帮助我成长的东西. 它现在已经是我的一部分了.”
佩奇说:“我与孩子们的很多互动都是基于我在PO学到的东西. “我发现,教师创造了一个让学习者自己负责学习的环境,这种方式创造了很多富有成效的发展. 这个过程成为了一种与开放学校的孩子们一起工作的方法. I didn’t get a degree in teaching because I didn’t want to be a teacher; my degree 在人类发展中 gave me the skills to interact with self-directed learners and gener所有y to work with children without 所有 of the adultism and the adult bias that gener所有y comes into the educational sphere.”