The ability to understand something immediately. Putting conscious reasoning aside and just letting your sense of the world guide you. We go through life relying on our intuition. We hone it as we mature.
It becomes like a second skin. It comforts us when we become fearful. It reminds us to take risks because it just knows we will be okay. But, it also warns us not to put ourselves in harms way. It also knows when we are vulnerable.
Can we create intuition?
Can we set up opportunities in our classrooms, risk free, for our students to build theirs, strengthen theirs, construct those layers we need as adults to navigate the world?
Yes. Intuition comes from strategy, trial and error and reconnaissance. Jumping into situations without forethought does not build intuition. But, strategy, experimentation and discovery does. Students need freedom. They need to take chances. They need to build their own situations to overcome.
We need to let them create their own demonstration of knowledge and step back and watch: they will either fail or struggle. But in the end- intuition will prevail. They will create a new layer.
By allowing them to collaborate and test their hypothesis, and just tinker and play gives them the platform from which to launch. Once they are airborne- intuition will lift them up. This is the best gift we can give them- the ability to think for themselves.
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