In her eight years of teaching, Darla has witnessed the power of hands-on, experiential learning and says, quoting acclaimed educator Maria Montessori, “What the hands do, the mind remembers.” In Darla's own experience, she has seen students – especially the younger ones – retain information better when scientific principles are made tangible beyond just lessons and photos in a textbook. “And a big part of that was because he was a little boy who didn’t want to come in and sit down at a desk.” “I had a son who was not very big on school at all, and it was a real struggle to get him through school,” she says. Hands-on STEM education hits close to home for Darla – it’s what led her to a career in education, inspired by some of the teachers who made a difference in her sons’ lives as they experienced their struggles adjusting to traditional classroom instruction. But at Wichita’s Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary, it’s getting students excited about science through an experiment made possible by fourth-grade teacher Darla Brown and an educational grant from Koch.
There’s nothing quite like the sticking power of hands-on education – even when “hands-on” means sifting through fistfuls of red worms and composting material.įor some people, that’s enough to make the skin crawl.
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