This progessive school is showing the world of education that there might be another way to do business. Our day at Del Lago was very informative and there was a flavor of hope in the air. The administration at Del Lago is running their school in a very different manner than most traditional schools have seen. The school works together in an integrated, collaborative, communal, project based manner. With this, students (or scholars as they are called) are the ones running this student-centered type of education where teachers are merely the facilitators in the class.
Classes are grouped for all students so that there is not individualized tracking. I see this move as incredibly bold where results could be great, but then again could go sour. The high students could pull the lower students up high in their project based learning, but I could see difficulty in differentiation leaving the high students too far ahead for the lower students to catch up.
One of the points that I liked is their phrase- it is never to late to learn. Here scholars are given the chances that they need to pass their course. Scholars may retake tests to improve their grade so that they will not fall behind and have to take the class over again. I like this way of schooling because it gives students hope about their classes and about their future. I have never had to repeat a course but I can imagine it would be demoralizing. With this method, scholars don't. I like this method a lot and will think about instituting it in my classes in the future.
Classes are grouped for all students so that there is not individualized tracking. I see this move as incredibly bold where results could be great, but then again could go sour. The high students could pull the lower students up high in their project based learning, but I could see difficulty in differentiation leaving the high students too far ahead for the lower students to catch up.
One of the points that I liked is their phrase- it is never to late to learn. Here scholars are given the chances that they need to pass their course. Scholars may retake tests to improve their grade so that they will not fall behind and have to take the class over again. I like this way of schooling because it gives students hope about their classes and about their future. I have never had to repeat a course but I can imagine it would be demoralizing. With this method, scholars don't. I like this method a lot and will think about instituting it in my classes in the future.