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  "title": "Student-centered learning on The Power of Learning",
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        "id": "http://kaj.micro.blog/2026/06/30/the-next-instinct-is-to.html",
        "title": "Unlearning the Rescue",
        "content_html": "<p>The next instinct is to rescue. A child struggles to solve a puzzle, or stumbles, and we step in to fix it — quickly, kindly, almost automatically. But every fast correction quietly tells the child that finding out the answer was our job, not theirs.  What&rsquo;s the alternative strategy? Next post&hellip;</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-06-30T09:18:49+09:00",
        "url": "https://www.kajschwermer.com/2026/06/30/the-next-instinct-is-to.html",
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        "content_html": "<p><strong>Teaching tip:</strong> when planning lessons or activities, rather than starting with an <strong>explanation</strong>, think of ways of <strong>introducing</strong> the lesson target that encourage <strong>exploration</strong>.  The ISLE approach to teaching physics gives some great examples here: <a href=\"https://www.islephysics.net/philosophy.html\">www.islephysics.net/philosoph&hellip;</a>  I will share some examples for the language classroom in the future posts.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-06-29T10:20:40+09:00",
        "url": "https://www.kajschwermer.com/2026/06/29/teaching-tip-when-planning-lessons.html",
        "tags": ["Teaching Tips","Student-centered learning"]
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        "content_html": "<p>Freedom isn&rsquo;t permission to do nothing. Dutch educator Hans Wenke reframed Parkhurst&rsquo;s first principle: freedom is the earned outcome of responsibility. That distinction matters enormously in how you design a school. The balance between freedom and responsibility is a crucial one.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-06-12T16:05:02+09:00",
        "url": "https://www.kajschwermer.com/2026/06/12/freedom-isnt-permission-to-do.html",
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        "content_html": "<p>Helen Parkhurst&rsquo;s insight: give children real responsibility for their learning and they instinctively seek the best way to achieve it. Not a theory. Alongside her mentor, Maria Montessori, she actually watched it happen in her classroom over a century ago.  No tests or exams, minimal discipline.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-06-10T09:16:17+09:00",
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