Victor Gargay–Jan 12, 2010 (last modified on Jan 12, 2010)
The future school is a school for a pupil. The educational institution monopoly will give way to monopoly of self educating person. It's up to him/her to solve as to what and how to learn. Adults - wise and careful instructors - help the growing person to understand his/her mission in this world and create safe and comfortable conditions for self-development and self-education.
Possibly, at future school there will be no classes, divisions of children into groups on abilities. There are not many teachers, but lots of parents, students and scholars of various high schools, grandmothers and grandfathers, businessmen, usual inhabitants from local communities, not always having a pedagogical education, but loving children and wishing them to something to learn. Children learn to think, do and love. All of them work under individual plans and programs with separate pupils and small groups of children of various ages. At one school all children, with no respect to social and marital status, race and national origin, religion, psycho-physiological features, sex and sexual orientation. The school works in a mode of non-stop and its doors are opened 24 hours a day and seven days a week. School sections, clubs are open not only for children, but also interested adults.
The public, business, parents actively participate in school management. Through mass media the school informs all interested on its successes.
The evaluation of educational quality is carried out by means of test results, student's ePortfolios, achievements of social projects and students field practice.
The pupil himself disposes allocated to him money using a personal magnetic card by paying for school service from food to work of teachers: management of training, professional tests, projects, excursions, educational travel, innovative activity, work to mugs and sections, clubs and laboratories. The lesson will cease to be the prevailing form of learning. In the nonlinear schedule - excursions, campaigns, employment "open air" events, workshops and master classes, club work, team work, projects and public work, field practice, professional tests, tele-lectures and tele-conferences, seminars, trainings, educational exchanges, role games, intellectual marathons, tournaments, students Olympic Games, competitions, debates etc.
At school there are no textbooks, writing-books, diaries and school magazines. Instead - considerable quantity of stationary and mobile computers, faxes, smart phones and other technologies. IT is a basis of the future school. They open to pupils access to unlimited sources of information, allowing them to establish Internet contacts to other students and teachers country and world wide. Access to a school server is logic continuation of educational process - didactic materials in all studied subjects. By means of SMS parents can learn a lot of helpful information on school life and life of their children.
At school there is lots of air and light, many cozy nature corners, places for playing sports. At future school there is only one monopoly - the right of the child to a quality education which helps him/her to find and realize the natural identity. The educators of suchlike school praise student's individual world and do their utmost to develop his/her inner potentials.
Such a school will not appear tomorrow by itself, it is necessary to build it already now. And it is necessary to start already now with a Teacher.
