5:2 Design A School: Optional Lessons
We discuss Optional Lessons. What Contexts and Scaffolding create successful Optional Lessons in a Democratic Free School ?
Summerhill Democratics
Talking about Democratic Education with Leonard and Jason.
This podcast goes with the blog on www.summerhilldemocratics.net. We are two ex-Summerhill teachers who help new schools setting up and advise school leaders on democratic processes.
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Episodes (31)
4:2 Design A School : Age Range
We discuss what the Age Ranges will be in our school. Is there an essential Age Range? A Lynch pin?
3:2 Design A School: Our Vision/Mission Statement
On our pathway to designing a model democratic free school we discuss founding principles.
2:2 Design A School The Vision / Mission Statement
We discuss Vision/Mission statements. Why they are important. What makes good ones ? How can they go wrong ? Consequences.
1-2 Design A School Why ?
Welcome to the Design a School Project.
Each topic of the week will have a Monday blog, a Wednesday Podcast and a Friday blog. This week's topic is:
Why We Are Designing a democratic Free School
Cheers
Leonard and Jason
Qualities of Teachers- Planning
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Summerhill Democratics
enJanuary 25, 2018
Qualities of Teachers
Qualities of teachers are important: understanding is one of these qualities. This is as true in the local comprehensive as it is at Summerhill. However, when a school has a unique philosophy the teacher must make an extra effort to understand. This is the first of a series on qualities of teachers in democratic education. In it I want to talk about some of the qualities of understanding that good democratic school teachers should have.
Summerhill Democratics
enDecember 31, 2017
Reduced Formal Curriculum Podcast 2 Summerhill Democratics
In this Podcast Leonard and Jason talk about the bloated curriculum. Jason starts off talking about his experience at school, which contrasts with the freedom that Summerhill students enjoy. In spite of this bad experience he has some doubts about giving little children the absolute freedom to play- what Leonard calls Deep Play.
These issues are dealt with more fully in the accompanying PDF and blog posts. Feel free to comment.
Summerhill Democratics
enOctober 25, 2017
Reduced Formal Curriculum Podcast 3 Summerhill Democratics
Summerhill Democratics
enOctober 18, 2017
Reduced Formal Curriculum Podcast 1 Summerhill Democratics
Definitions of the reduced curriculum.
Intro Reduced Curriculum Package
A brief description of what's to come.