An Ideal School

I really liked a school setting that I saw for students with learning disabilities. They are called Lab School. Every classroom was decorated differently and there would be different themes and the kids did some very interactive work while learning. They would dress up as medieval times and they would learn something from history in that classroom. There would be songs to help them remember what they were learning and according to the founder, students were very well prepared to go to college.
I would like to follow their idea of the lab school but make some changes so that it is not just for learning disable students. The school would be a small school. The teachers that I would hire to work there, must have a passion for teaching and have creativity for teaching students. I wouldn’t use grades. I would use pass/fail because I feel that students either do good or they don’t.
On a typical day, students will take turns going into the different classrooms. They would be provided with the materials needed and they would be allowed to spend a lot of time being creative and playful while learning all the different content that they need to learn to be successful. Digital media would be very important because there would need to be interactions with professionals. I believe that something that wold help students know what they would like to be in i by learning and getting to know professionals, so we would integrate digital forums so that they can interact with different professionals. School would be used with the same time period that regular schools have. When I was looking at the video, the founder of the Lab Schools mentioned that students always looked forward for the next day of class, therefore I would make it the same length. Students would be assessed on depending on whether or not they can apply what they learn in the classroom to the outside world.

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