Imagine an educational delivery system with the motto “Getting everybody over the bar” and that simulates a collaborative, high performance workplace. Instead of the traditional high school model that changes subjects, work groups and teachers every 45–90 minutes in response to a bell, cohorts of 25–60 students and 3–5 teachers from different disciplines stay together for most of the school day and year. Most courses are team taught, cross-disciplinary, highly experiential and applied, computer-assisted, project- and competency-based. You still have to do the work, go beyond your comfort zone and earn your grades or certificates of accomplishment. But what you learn isn’t easily forgotten because it uses a whole-brain approach that engages you emotionally while indicating how and where such knowledge and skills can be applied. You also learn what you and classmates are like when at their best and how to bring out the best in them, just as you would if you were on an after school sports team or musical group.
Following are links to articles that describe a model that focuses on improving basic skills, emotional intelligence and career development. While not the entire curriculum, it provides a template for reforming how academics could be taught.
http://www.educationviews.org/program-handle-crisis-competence/- http://www.educationviews.org/annual-march-madness-schools-learn/- http://www.educationviews.org/redesigning-american-high-schools-long-game-short-game/
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