Futurelab - Innovation in education. Enquiring Minds. Big Picture: A Better School Model? | Big Picture. By Sarah M. Fine November 16, 2009 The Big Picture Learning Company structures high schools around the belief that kids learn best when they are doing what they love. In the world of American public education, this is nothing short of radical. It is a chilly Thursday morning in Rhode Island and the Met School’s Media and Performing Arts Center is hopping. I peer through soundproof glass into the Center’s conference room, where a group of colorfully dressed students sit around a seminar table. The Met, short for the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, is a state-funded school district that serves roughly 700 students in six small schools across Providence and Newport, Rhode Island.
Curious about the scene unfolding in the conference room, I turn to Mike, the tireless 10th-grade “advisor” with whom I have been tagging along for a day and a half. Accordingly, Big Picture Learning schools push students to pursue “real work” whenever possible. It certainly seems that they do. Engaging Places | A resouce to support teaching and learning thr. TEIA MULTICULTURAL. José Pacheco e a Escola da Ponte. José Pacheco não é o primeiro - e nem será o último - a desejar uma escola que fuja do modelo tradicional. Ao contrário de muitos, no entanto, o educador português pode se orgulhar por ter transformado seu sonho em realidade. Há 28 anos ele coordena a Escola da Ponte.
Apesar de fazer parte da rede pública portuguesa, a escola de ensino básico, localizada a 30 quilômetros da cidade do Porto, em nada se parece com as demais. A Ponte não segue um sistema baseado em seriação ou ciclos e seus professores não são responsáveis por uma disciplina ou por uma turma específicas. A cada ano, as crianças e os jovens criam as regras de convivência que serão seguidas inclusive por educadores e familiares. O sistema tem se mostrado viável por pelo menos dois motivos: primeiro, porque os educadores estão abertos a mudanças; segundo, porque as famílias dos alunos apóiam e defendem a escola idealizada por Pacheco.
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