Good evening and good mood!
Congratulations to all on the first day of school, namely from September 1, ... More precisely it was yesterday, but better late than never :) I advise you to read the friends, very interesting!
So this post is dedicated to all the students!
Underground School Terraset Elementary School (USA)
Students of the American school Terraset - almost children dungeon. The school was built in the mid-1970s, when the US shocked the energy crisis. The country has introduced energy-saving mode, which was used including for heating schools. In Reston built Terraset school: flattened hill, was erected on the site structure and then filled it with earth. Natural earthy coating gave warmth and conserve energy. Before designers was another difficult task: the room was necessary not only to heat, but cool. This required new energy costs. The problem was solved solar collectors. Today Terraset - it is not only the most energy-efficient school in the country, but also one of the major tourist attractions in Reston. In contrast to the history of the Terraset learning process in the school is hardly original. This junior school with a traditional set of items to the US. However, from time to time the school holds events for children and parents like the family of the race through the streets of the city or an evening bingo.
School without discipline ALPHA Alternative School (Canada)
ALPHA The school opened its doors in 1972, is in perpetual celebration of disobedience. There were no estimates, no strict schedule, no homework. No one will punish for writing on the blackboard chalk curse and will not stand over. Students are free to decide how to spend the school day and what classes to visit. Classes are formed not by age, but by interests: along with math and spelling lessons are provided for modeling, cooking and even basic philosophy. The task of teachers - just do not get in the way. If the school there is any conflict situation, it convened a special committee, consisting of students and teachers. Parties allow to express and justify their views, after which the Commission proposes solutions to the problem. The main thing - to find a solution that will appeal to all. Another tradition ALPHA - hold meetings, during which the children as adults have the right to speak about the need for changes in net items and school management system.
Nomadic School "Keneleken" (Russia)
In the past, children of nomadic reindeer herders or did not receive formal education or have been forced to stay in boarding schools and for months to see family. Today this problem is solved with the help of nomadic schools, which in Russia every year becomes more and more. In Yakutia, such schools have more than a dozen. One of these nomadic schools - "Keneleken". It is a branch of high school Haryyalahskoy Olenek Evenk National District. At each new addition to the usual parking facilities nomads now appears more and school tents. Students can be counted on the fingers. However, despite the small numbers, then they are not enough in what will be inferior to their peers, who are lucky enough to study in more stable conditions. Children are engaged by special schedule. Homework and control is obtained over the Internet - all schools for children of reindeer herders in the framework of the national project have access to satellite internet. After running - refer them back for review.
Сommon language search School Busan International Foreign School (South Korea)
Pupils of school for foreigners in South Korean Pusan working hard all year round. Here, children learn to immigrants or those who came to Korea to work for longer, as well as boys and girls who have been translated at the exchange in one of the Korean schools and need to be adapted. Intensive mode is necessary in order to quickly adapt to new conditions of life and successfully enroll in one of Korean universities. Young immigrants is not easy to make friends with new classmates in a regular school. Ignorance of local traditions often becomes an occasion for ridicule, which can cause the child psychological trauma. Many teachers Busan School for the education of foreigners - psychologists. They teach their students to find common language with each other, despite the fact that many of them have never heard about the existence of the country from which their new classmate arrived. Most children learn just three languages: Korean, English, Spanish. The program also provides case studies that do not allow to forget the culture of his native country. Multicultural schools exist in many countries. In Moscow, working №1650 school, which is specially recruit children of different nationalities in order to foster in students a tolerant attitude towards those who are something different from them, but also help to learn more about the traditions of other nations.
School of pleasant interaction with the world Mountain Mahogany Community School (USA)
To get to school Mountain Mahogany, you need to win the lottery. From the official site of the school need to download a special form, fill it out, send it by fax or mail and wait for the draw will take place and will be announced on the list of the lucky ones. The approach to learning in the school of not less than the original. The three principles on which the school policy is - fun, safety and emotional development. The program is based on the latest neurological research, according to which the guarantee of a good learning atmosphere is positive and active involvement. The school has a standard general education subjects, but especially children there are taught to interact with the outside world and domestic skills: sewing, cooking, gardening. Teacher students jokingly call "little gardeners". And no wonder: in the school grounds planted hundreds of trees, which need to take care of. Kids eat organic fruit, which themselves have grown.
School knowledge all through music Choir Academy of Harlem (USA)
Giving a child in the Choir Academy of Harlem, parents allow them not only to exercise the vocal cords, the tour and introduction to the spiritual values, but also basic education with a humanitarian bent. The mission of this school teachers - contribute to the development in the child of his hidden talents. Therefore, the main program consists of different types of performing arts: singing, dancing, playing musical instruments. During the introductory interview potential student to check the sense of rhythm, time orientation and concentration. However, the primary still remains the love child of music. If the parents can not afford to buy a musical instrument, the school will give it to the child for temporary use. Without the attention does not remain, and physical development of students: the school has baseball and soccer teams and, of course, a group of cheerleaders.
School for refugees and illegal immigrants "Bialik-Rogozin" (Israel)
In February 2011, the "Oscar" for best short documentary went to the film "There are no foreign" Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. Forty-minute film tells the story of the Israeli school "Bialik-Rogozin," where children of refugees and illegal immigrants. They come from all corners of the earth, come from different families and worshiped different gods, but a short life of each of them took many tests. Many have lost relatives and exhausted, both physically and emotionally. Some children had never attended school. "Bialik-Rogozin," gives children not only the necessary basic knowledge. Students there are fed, watered and clothed. And most importantly, that the students receive from their mentors - genuine sympathy and concern. Here, children do not find it strange or unnecessary, since they all become Israelis.
Floating School School Kompong Luong (Cambodia)
Cambodian Tonle Sap lake, near which is the famous temple complex of Angkor Wat, is considered the largest freshwater bodies of the Indochinese peninsula. He was even called the "inland sea". On the surface of the lake is the famous tourist attraction of Cambodia - a floating village of Kompong Luong: residential buildings, cafes, shops and school. For pupils floating school became a second home in the truest sense of the word - learn it mostly orphans. Here they live. The parents of many of them were killed during fishing: in the rainy season the water level in the lake rises significantly and walk on it in boats becomes quite dangerous. Ensure children are helping tourists: each new group buying all the goods from the shelves of local shops and literally fills up school toys, stationery and sweets.
Watershed School Adventure School (USA)
The decline of the farming culture in the United States are concerned, not only the farmers and the government, but also the school staff. Otherwise how do you explain the fact that the school introduced a program of Watershed Farm to Table, in which students are sent to one of six local farms and learn how a farm works. In general, training in Watershed resembles a grand adventure in a few years in length. Of course, children are engaged in and the usual subjects like math and English, but these activities can endure for the sake of training expedition, which is considered the most productive method of education. So, architecture, children learn not in stuffy classrooms, and on the streets. Instead, the lessons of geography and biology - are fused kayaking on the nearby rivers and wander through the woods. Teachers help students Watershed write songs, to create a rock band, collect robots and invent scenarios for video games. In addition to traditional sports like football students practice yoga, mountain biking and playing Frisbee.
Cave School. Guizhou Province, People's Republic
Looking ahead, I say - now the school is closed, but from 1984 to 2011, it functioned in the image and likeness of conventional secondary schools. Such an unusual school came not from the good life. Guizhou Province - one of the poorest in China. Not very appropriate to talk about some high spiritual needs, there often when people are undernourished and can not afford an extra pair of shoes. But in conditions of total poverty residents were able to organize a school for the children's leisure time. At the minimum amount that the government has allocated, to build a normal building it was impossible. That had to be content with the grace of nature. He built in a cave some simple barracks-school teacher's needs, we put desks and, in fact, the class was ready.
Worked in the cave eight school teachers, in 27 years they have trained hundreds of children. But in 2011, party bosses decided that the primitive form of schools causing irreparable damage to the country's image. Educational institution closed. Now, it is visited only by tourists. A school that meets the high moral standing and have not built. In general, no not built, even nizkomoralnuyu.
Waldorf School. It founded in 1919. City of Stuttgart, Germany
It is not just a private school, a world-renowned educational doctrine. The main principle - to give the child maximum opportunity to develop at a pace that is comfortable for him personally. There is a strict system and estimates are almost no textbooks. Standard disciplines that we know from the public schools, there is little. Teach practically useful differences. For example, students can knit, bake bread, draw, design, architecture, dance. And there is no division in the boys' class and girly. All are able to all. And they travel a lot around the world.
A curious story of the birth of Waldorf education. He founded the teaching of Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, esoteric, the founder of the spiritual movement of anthroposophy. But he ordered the construction of the revolutionary educational institution Emil molto, the owner of the "Waldorf-Astoria" cigarette factory. The very first school (in the photo) located at the factory, where stamped tobacco products. And the name of his new method was not in honor of the Steiner or molto, and in honor of the cigarette factory.
Now the "Waldorf" - patented trademark. In 60 countries, including Russia, there are 1025 Waldorf schools and 2,000 kindergartens.
That's all friends, thank you for your attention!
