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Educational Innovations

Educational Innovations. New Ideas to Make Learning Accessible for Everyone!. Will This Fix the Problem?. Perhaps innovative classroom settings will help to build character and positive relationships Could potentially decrease the amount of violence in the classroom

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Educational Innovations

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  1. Educational Innovations New Ideas to Make Learning Accessible for Everyone!

  2. Will This Fix the Problem? • Perhaps innovative classroom settings will help to build character and positive relationships • Could potentially decrease the amount of violence in the classroom • May also help to decrease the failure and dropout rate because students may be more interested in learning

  3. Experiential Education • “Learning by doing” • Students engaged in an experience with benefits & consequences • May include: service to others, lab focus, outdoor education, etc. • Useful for all, proven very useful for “at-risk” students

  4. Experiential Education in Ontario • Wendigo Lake Expeditions • Wilderness based, adventure therapy programs • Values taught: responsibility, effort, attitude, community, honour (REACH) • Combination of schooling, community service, expeditions and challenge activities • Flexible length of stay 2-12 months

  5. Free schools • Central idea: children learn in their own ways, which must be encouraged • Skills, information and knowledge are shared without any hierarchy (teacher being “above” student) • Open structure, although some share traditional features (desks, blackboards) • Teaches self-direction, responsibility, trust, personal development, creativity, curiousity

  6. Summerhill • “time and space to sit and dream” • Founded in 1921, original free school • “I would rather Summerhill produce a happy street sweeper than a neurotic Prime Minister”- A.S. Neill, founder

  7. Learning • Children should be allowed freedom to be themselves • Means no discipline, no direction, no suggestion, no training • Most students take some exams before leaving • Whole school meetings to resolve problems (like bullying) • 80 students in 2006 • Summerhill Meeting

  8. The School & Founder

  9. Albany Free School • Founded in 1969 • Oldest inner-city, independent, alternative school in the US • Currently has 55 students • Sliding scale tuition • No tests or grades • No curriculum or compulsory classes • “Trust children and they will learn”

  10. Maple Grove Public School • Beamsville, ON • Focus on global & environmental education, peace education, community strength • Features: peace & feedback circles, individualized progression, peacekeeping, cross-grade units • 70 students • No gym, 10 computers, acres of land, wildlife garden

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