Sentences with phrase «factory model school»

«There's a realization and understanding on the clients» side that the factory model school that most of us went to — where you've got similarly sized classrooms marching down either side of the hallway — is not going to support the kind of teaching and learning that they're after,» says Steve Turckes, principal and K — 12 education global practice leader for Perkins + Will.

Not exact matches

Adopting what are becoming tried - and - true blended - learning models (yes, I know it still may be too soon to use that phrase for blended learning, but I just did it) to individualize learning for students and improve teachers» lives is better than remaining stuck in a failed factory - based model of schooling, even if the model is not the most innovative thing ever that pushes the blended - learning field forward for students.

Some historians peg the origins of our style of schooling to the «factory model» approach that Horace Mann brought back from Prussia in the mid 1800s.

San Diego — From the outside, this school district's boxy pale - orange headquarters, sitting squatly in the California sunshine, looks like the very embodiment of the old factory model of schooling.

This phenomenon is a less talked about byproduct of our «factory model» of school, but one that places false constraints on the range of adult supports and expertise that students can access inside their classrooms.

The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, and a flexible, active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.

Since our own inception, the Christensen Institute has been committed to researching and supporting approaches to instruction that break open the factory model of school.

(This is why the familiar school model bears such an uncanny resemblance to the early 20th - century factory.)

Think of all the times reformers have mocked «the factory model» of schooling, voiced exasperation that classrooms look the same today as they did one hundred years ago, and lamented that the school calendar still reflects an agrarian economy.

There is a long history of schools using technologies to, in effect, sustain the chalkboard and prop up the 20th - century factory model classroom with the teacher in front of 20 to 30 students of the same age.

It's not the fault of anyone in the system today, but patterned after the dominant factory model of the era in which public schooling scaled, our education system functions as though all students learn at the same pace and have the same learning needs, which we know is not true.

In turn, schools can start to move away from seat time and fixed - date assessments, hallmarks of the antiquated factory - model school.

At the Clayton Christensen Institute, we track disruptive innovations in K — 12 schools that upend the traditional factory - based model of school in favor of instructional approaches that better center on each individual student.

Other innovations like peer - to - peer learning or early college high school models likewise may tug at the foundation of the traditional, centralized, factory - and time - based models that have dominated our education system for over a century.

Significantly, because these are typically marketed directly to parents, players in this space don't have to accord with the factory - based school models and bureaucratic procurement processes to which K - 12 edtech products are typically beholden.

That said, what this Race to the Top very clearly does is signal to districts that moving away from our current factory - model schools toward personalized learning designs powered by digital learning is critical for student success.

But the current reality has fallen far short, as the timid, the ambivalent, and those students without access to academic or emotional support fall through the cracks of crumbling, factory - model schools.

The rise of hybrid schooling bodes well for students whose needs, gifts, interests, and learning styles do not align with the factory school model of the 20th century, and for parents who know that no school can maximize the potential of every child every year in every way.

Working closely with educators, the designers have created a school environment where «the prototypical factory model with its self - contained classrooms is replaced by an environment that features a diversity of spaces that flow into one another.

What Geoff has written here reminds me of a TED talk where Ken Robinson talks about parallels between the traditional schooling model and a factory production line.

This factory model of assessment would have been great 50 years ago, when schools were modelled after and trained students for work in factories.

Current time - and age - based accountability measures have a stronghold on schools, even those trying to break away from the factory model of education.

It's common knowledge that our school system was built on a factory model, where students were prepared for rote jobs that didn't require innovation, critical thinking, or creative problem solving.

This advantage, however, is diminished when charters duplicate what the large «factory model» high schools do.

First, the prevailing school model largely reflects a century - old factory model that has become a «one - size - fits - none» strategy.

It's harder for kids in poverty and in single - parent homes, especially those attending large, impersonal middle and high schools where students change subjects, teachers and work groups every 50 - 90 minutes in response to a bell (the proverbial «factory model»).

And although the factory model has never benefited more than half the students, particularly those from low - income backgrounds, government still invests most of its scarce R&D dollars (for high schools) in trying to make it better.

Over 85 % of American high schoolers attend the factory model.

One of Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn's key insights in Disrupting Class was that the U.S. schools» factory - based model resists disruption in part because there is very little nonconsumption in our K — 12 education system, which has by and large successfully enforced compulsory education policies.

In the spirit of never wasting a crisis, he said he hoped the difficult financial straits would help bring an end to «the factory model of education» and an increase in productivity in schools.

Our education system is based on a 150 year old factory school model.

Okay, we'll excuse the old joke, but she refers to the Bush / Kennedy / Clinton law as the «factory model of school reform.»

The union leader ends her piece with «Maybe it's time to change from the Factory Model of school reform to the Good Doctor Model.»

One reason for that is that we design our schools in most cases still in the United States based on the factory model of 100 years ago, where the idea was that teachers are only working when they're in classrooms instructing children.

In classic «factory model» schools (which, let's face it, most of our schools still are), specialization and economies of scale go hand in hand.

A long - time educator, writer, and public education advocate, Deborah Meier maintains that the current accountability movement's highly prescriptive «one - size - fits - all» factory model of schooling is incompatible with the trust, democracy, and community that a good school embodies.

The fact that Achievement First (call it non profit, it is a private corporate - reform model of «school» — test prep factory Is more like it) does not accept any and every child who walks through the doors is already a form of «creaming» and narrowed access.

It is a professionalism that neither harkens back to the factory - model school, promoted by the first wave of business - inspired reforms, nor settles for the market - driven, minimally regulated, and increasingly privatized and for - profit systems promoted by the second wave of business reforms.

Yet, that is exactly why we design 21st century school facilities that function in dramatically different ways than 20th century factory models.

It's hard to fault individual parents who want a liberal wonderful education for their kids, but if all of us who can flee the fight for quality public education for all, what you get is sub par factory model a-democratic inequitable authoritarian test driven schools.

The idea of senior teachers running the school in a committee format with input for all stakeholders including students is probably superior to the factory model.

The factory model of control and direct instruction still pervades most new schools.

But even with access to technology and Internet connectivity, many schools still use an antiquated classroom model designed when factory work was the norm for most Americans — dozens of students in a room together, seated in rows facing the teacher, learning the same concept at the same time from a textbook that may be years out of date.

He said, «The legacy of the factory model of schooling is that tens of billions of dollars are tied up in unproductive use of time and technology, in underused school buildings, in antiquated compensation systems, and in inefficient school - finance systems.»

Roosevelt is a school that has been incredibly innovative within the walls of what used to be a typical «factory model» school.

Further, teachers of low - income students, English learners, and students of color are especially likely to work in these outdated, factory - model schools, and they are most likely to be forced to adopt a narrow, one - size - fits - all curriculum, further constraining their autonomy and professionalism (Ravitch, 2010).

The database features comprehensive and searchable profiles of schools around the country that are pursuing a variety of models aimed at transforming instruction away from our monolithic factory model to a student - centered one.

I started Abl because I want to help all schools move beyond the factory model.

As we work to transform schools designed for a factory - model era, we must retool both the operations and mindset of the systems in which these schools exist.

Many call this model of schooling the «factory model» because it was codified during the industrial revolution and follows the contours of a factory — blocks of students going down the conveyor belt of standardized subjects and grade levels to produce industrial workers.