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New approaches to high school?

by Jared Jones 4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus might be giving us an opportunity to build new ways for students to learn. I'm vaguely imagining ways for schools to connect students to businesses and community organizations where projects (communicating, solving problems) drive academic learning. What if students spend time with non-school adults, then return to teachers looking for the skills they need for those "real world" contexts? What if most of my teaching time were not spent in a classroom with groups of 28-35, but in meetings with small groups of students and their community partners, focusing on the aspects of language arts they need in order to solve the problems they're actually facing?

What would it take to pilot a model like this? Are there existing models to learn from? I have a vague sense that Germany does something along these lines.