Good Day Punks!
Back again with another worldbuilding post, this time in the efforts to explore a better education system. To understand a better time, place, and methodology for learning, and how these understandings can be incorporated into a new reimagined world. It's time to take our schools to school with the latest worldbuilding post:
Solarium - The Pursuit of Learning
I generally think that we do ourselves a disservice by limiting our learning potential to the times and place of the classroom. There is much more that can be gleamed by integrating the learning experience with the world around us. Would you agree? Would you rather education be part of a rigid, maybe convenient schedule? Would love to know your thoughts as I use this post and all the user comments to generate a writing prompt and flesh out more of my worldbuilding.
Whether you comment or not, hope it was at least a thought provoking read and I greatly appreciate your time! Have a great day! :)
One of the interesting aspects of Montessori is the mixing of age range. Not total, but there are age ranges that work well together and teach from each other. One teacher for 30 students is hard when the teacher has to teach each of them, but if the environment is set up in a way that kids can teach each other (with the teacher checking everything is alright of course) you gain in efficiency and the kids learn a ton of social skills that the typical models do not teach.
Another thing that is happening at our local school (public, non-Montessori but the teachers are top-notch) is that teachers take care of not making level groups but affinity groups and try to mix levels within a group, and insist on the diversity of teaching paths.