Schools of
the future
The 12 steps to transform an outdated model
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- Plan schools as life-long, year-round community resource
centers.
- Ask your customers first: your students and parents.
- Guarantee customer success and satisfaction.
- Cater to all intelligence traits and all learning styles.
- Use the world's best teaching, study and learning methods
- Invest in your key resource: teachers as facilitators.
- Make everyone a teachers as well as a student.
- Plan a four-part curriculum, with personal growth, lifeskills
and learning-how-to-learn linked with all content.
- Change the assessment system.
- Use tomorrow's technology.
- Use your entire community as a resource.
- Give everyone the right to choose.
These 12 steps are developed in full, with excellent examples
from around the world, in chapter 13 of The Learning Revolution, 1999's
best-selling international book, by Gordon Dryden and Dr. Jeannette
Vos.
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It seems to us that
any sensible vision should include these factors:
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- Lifelong
continual learning will be a fact of life for everyone.
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- Inside
that context, everyone should be encouraged to plan his or her
own curriculum for life.
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- While
there is no one right way to teach or learn, there are many
techniques to enable anyone to learn faster, better, smarter.
And an open-minded search for new ideas is central to
tomorrow's world, and central to tomorrow's schools.
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- Every
state or country also has different school-health
relationships, administrative systems, teacher training
programs. And, as in any other field, progress will often
depend on the vision and drive of individual leaders:
principals, teachers, parents, administrators and political
leaders.
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