Lifewide Education for Schools Forum
If lifewide learning is a fundamental concept for personal development then it should have relevance, meaning and value at every stage in life.
The Lifewide Education and Schools Forum is intended for teachers, leaders and others who are involved in the formal and informal education of young people.
The hope is that the Forum will be a place where the members can share their perspectives, their experiences and their plans in supporting and facilitating lifewide learning.
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Dream School, Broad Curriculum, RSA, Lifewide Relevance
Many hours have been spent determining the nature of an ideal school, and it's amazing how many different versions emerge. However, a common element, I think, would be the need for a genuinely broad school experience for those involved.
There's a joke about someone asking for directions in an unfamiliar city and being advised "Well don't start from here". While we can start to dream, we can't just leap into a new reality, so I've been looking out for examples of ways in which some schools have been starting to work practically towards a vision.
Sandy Ghose, of Imaginative Minds and the SEC, has drawn attention to an article in The Express about the success of the RSA Academy. This seems to be another example of bringing together achievement and a varied curriculum of high quality.
A “TROUBLED” inner city school has turned its pupils' lives around by giving them the kind of education normally offered by fee-paying schools like Eton. It has become an academy and has abandoned A-levels, opting instead to offer the International Baccalaureate.
Once the failing school was in “special measures”, meaning it was subject to constant monitoring by education inspectors Ofsted, and its badly behaved pupils were unpopular with residents living nearby in Tipton in the West Midlands. Now the RSA Academy is an inspirational success story. The pupils are happier, some have already graduated to university and no one is running around the local streets “like yobbos”.
The key seems to lie in the more “rounded” education.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/314555/Learning-to-be-th...
Many hours have been spent determining the nature of an ideal school, and it's amazing how many different versions emerge. However, a common element, I think, would be the need for a genuinely broad school experience for those involved.
There's a joke about someone asking for directions in an unfamiliar city and being advised "Well don't start from here". While we can start to dream, we can't just leap into a new reality, so I've been looking out for examples of ways in which some schools have been starting to work practically towards a vision.
Sandy Ghose, of Imaginative Minds and the SEC, has drawn attention to an article in The Express about the success of the RSA Academy. This seems to be another example of bringing together achievement and a varied curriculum of high quality.
A “TROUBLED” inner city school has turned its pupils' lives around by giving them the kind of education normally offered by fee-paying schools like Eton. It has become an academy and has abandoned A-levels, opting instead to offer the International Baccalaureate.
Once the failing school was in “special measures”, meaning it was subject to constant monitoring by education inspectors Ofsted, and its badly behaved pupils were unpopular with residents living nearby in Tipton in the West Midlands. Now the RSA Academy is an inspirational success story. The pupils are happier, some have already graduated to university and no one is running around the local streets “like yobbos”.
The key seems to lie in the more “rounded” education.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/314555/Learning-to-be-th...
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