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on the full equality of students, including gender. At this
school you will not hear the pronouns “she” or “he”; children
are called either by name or they use the pronoun “they”.
And children learn to build relationships based on actions,
and not some stereotypes associated with gender, race
or religion.
5.AltSchool/San Francisco, CA
AltSchool is completely moving away from the usual model
of traditional education, introducing a learning system in
which children improve their technical skills, learn to think
creatively, which in the future will help them more easily
adapt to changes in the world. For example, children learn
3D modeling through the construction of toy houses. A
school teaching children from 4 to 14 years old, by the
way, is rapidly gaining momentum and is becoming quite
popular. The first AltSchool appeared in San Francisco,
and now there are similar schools in New York and Palo
Alto.
6. Sra Pou Vocational School
/Sra Pu, Cambodia
Designed by a Finnish agent, this school for all ages was
built to teach people how to turn their passion into a
full-fledged business. Teachers from a local community
organization teach here. The construction of the school,
by the way, was also a kind of lesson – the builders worked
side by side with students, teaching them how to properly
construct buildings of this type.
7. P-TECH High School/New York,
USA
P-TECH was founded by IBM in 2011. Students here study
for six years in the areas of STEM education and during
this time they undergo internships, collaborate with
mentors, which allows them to build their career paths
already during training.
8. Steve Jobs School
/Amsterdam, Netherlands
In this school, emphasis is placed on an individual
approach, each student has a plan according to which he
is studying, and which is updated every six weeks by the
student himself, his parents and the coach (the school
does not have the concept of “teacher”). All students –
from grades 4 to 12 – receive iPads at the school, where
special learning applications are downloaded. And the
main goal here is to provide children with the opportunity
to independently build their education system.
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