Do you remember the school where you studied? How were your facilities? How did they teach you? Education, as we know, is a fundamental right in our society, and we could say that every child should be able to enjoy the best educational methods, and in turn, adequate resources.
However, today the educational issue remains a complex area with several shortcomings.The psychopedagogical methods are sometimes not the most appropriate, and resumes and education laws are sometimes guided by the political party that governs that legislature.
An example that serves as a reference for what the perfect school should be like is Saunalahti.We are talking, of course, of Finland, that country that always occupies the top positions in education, and if the Saunalahti school is considered the best in the world, we do not say it.The recognized PISA report indicates it.
We are not going to tell you about that teach in this center, but what and we want to explain to you how they teach it , how the school is, how it is oriented, what it encourages and how it stands to see the child as the most important thing in society. There where the teachers and even the neighbors and parents themselves are essential figures in the student's training.
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Saunalahti, the school of the future
The interesting thing about this school is that from the beginning, the architects and educational agents were clear that they were looking for several concepts: collaboration, interaction, freedom and creativity .It is amazing to see how this center It is really the most important thing in the neighborhood.Not the shopping center, or the park, or the main street, but the school itself.
There are no schedules here.The school does not open only from 9 to 17 hours, is accessible great pair You of the day and whoever wishes I could enter.Because here many tasks are carried out focused on any citizen, elder, worker, father, mother or child...
A school without desks
Education is not fixed, it is not received sitting rigidly in a chair and at an individual table.The student moves, the walls are made of glass and can see outside as well as the rest of the classrooms.Group work is encouraged, hence the tables are organized for students to work in groups, and for the child to look for information in the library, on computers.
The student is encouraged to be an active agent in his training always guided by his teacher.
A center with elders, children, parents, and teachers
The Saunalahti school also houses a day center for the elderly, a large gym, a nursery, a huge library, and a youth center.They are multiple synergies to be enriched and to interact with to grow and learn.
Community life revolves around Saunalahti school.Parents can go to the gym in the afternoon, grandparents are in the morning in the area Daytime for the elderly, neighbors organize events and projects where children can collaborate.The union is perfect and every agent is important in the education of children.
Learning is inside and outside the classroom
As you know, education is not exclusive to the center where a child studies.A person acquires knowledge of his family, from the community, from the street, from television, from the Internet.The world is an entity that moves and changes at every moment, so it is necessary that the student goes beyond that of that book on his desk or that formula on the board.
The child must experiment, carry out projects, research , wherever there is always an active mind that satisfies his curiosity, and that each data leads to other information.The teacher is a guide that guides and encourages learning, which encourages, that enriches that induces that learning informal of which Maria Montessori already left us some brushstrokes.
Here children value first of all the light they receive and in not «feeling locked up».They enjoy learning, and that is certainly something admirable And now tell us what opinion deserves this school and this educational approach? We look forward to your comments inviting you to also meet the smartest girl in the world.
Image: Saunalahti
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