Rethinking schools

To say that Education is complex topic is an absolute understatement. There is no dearth of ideas – but there is also no dearth of challenges. Probably the most challenging aspect of Education is its variability.

To say that Education is complex topic is an absolute understatement. There is no dearth of ideas – but there is also no dearth of challenges. Probably the most challenging aspect of Education is its variability. The aptness of an education model depends on numerous factors – individual students, the society, the culture, the time, the world-view and so on. Thus experimentation and emergence of exciting ideas in this will continue. PBS News Hour recently published an article surveying some of the new practices. In this, they focused on Community Lab School, a small public charter school in Virginia.

In quick words, learning at the Community Lab School is “project-based, multi-grade and interdisciplinary”. The keywords are flexible, interesting, cooperative, “voice and choice” and “social and emotional learning”. These are put into practice using innovative methods.

With societies emerging out of the pandemic there is a lot of thinking happening regarding the models and practices in eduction. Hope they learn the lessons and come back renewed and more effective.