Is This the Way a School Should Operate?

Let’s say a school divided their school year into five parts as follows:

All learning took place in the context of one of these general phenomena, and the children (students) learned through solving problems in these areas. That type of learning might look like these pictures.

First graders working on their projects:

2^nd graders working on a wearable project

Students working outside of the classroom:

Fifth graders building and programming robots

Even a 2^nd grade math class looks different:

Where are the teachers in these pictures? The children are busy learning, the role of the teacher is to facilitate not to “teach”. This type of learning works when teachers trust the kids to come to them when they need them, so the teachers can stay in the background coaching when needed. Kids naturally tend to rise to whatever you expect them to do.

How do you set up schools for this type of learning?

That will be in the next post.