What will happen if you lose school year and timetable from school?

ByYusuke Umezawa

Speaking of schools, students take classes as scheduled by schedule, perform tests and advance, but there are advanced schools that do not have "grade" or "timetable" in Germany.

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In 2015, Anton Overwinder and his friends group tried to go camping trip to Cornwall, England. However, due to lack of camping expenses, over renders negotiate with the German state railway to get a free ticket and instead make a speech to about 200 employees working in the German state railway . The striking thing about this episode is that the over-render who got the ticket with superior action power is still only 14 years old boy.

It is an over-render who was supposed to give a speech in front of a social occupant at just 14 years of age, but his confidence is supported by a German educational institution that fundamentally overturned the traditional criteria found at educational sites, It is a unique educational program. In the school called "Evangelical School Berlin Center (ESBC)" overrider does not exist "class year" until 15 years old, there is no timetable so there is no fixed class format.

ByKarl Baron

At schools where over renders pass, students decide the subject they want to learn by themselves, and students can decide when to take the exam. However, the subjects that can be freely chosen to learn are limited to 4 maths, German, English and social studies, and in addition to this there are courses of "responsibility" and "challenge" . For example, the course "Challenge" is that students aged 12 to 14 make a plan entirely by one person and go out for adventure with a budget of 115 euros (about 13,000 yen). The content of this adventure is diverse, one student goes to the kayak experience, the other students do a work experience on the farm, but over renders go camping to British Cornwall to learn English I decided.

Regarding the reason for introducing this innovative educational program, "The method of information processing by young people has changed with smartphones and the Internet, the conditions required in the labor market are changing," Margulato Rasfeld said. In addition, Rasufudo's principal is the most important skill that the school is taught to students is "Make yourself motivate"Children of 3 years and 4 years are confident, and children of that age often have children who want to go to school sooner or later. However, when actually going to school a lot of children are irritated, and at the school so far I was not able to successfully train my confidence in my chest when I was small, " I will tell you the reasons for introducing an educational program.

It is encouraged to think about how to show skills acquired by students at the school of Raspeld's head, and instead of taking mathematical tests, you can also get results by creating computer games by coding . Overlender seems to have never been away from home for more than three weeks in life until he tried camping at Cornwall, but he learned English as dense as learning English at school for several years I have decided to challenge camping in Cornwall.

ByRae Allen

It is because the educational program of ESBC is highly appreciated in Germany as it has an impressive result. ESBC opened in 2007, the number of students enrolled in the first year was 16 people, but now it is a popular school that more than 500 students attend and the names of many applicants lined up in the order list of enrollment It is said that. British newspaper The Guardian says that the success of ESBC has spread as rumors and that this new educational policy becomes nationwide, nothing is wrong.

However, some educators question whether the educational policy of ESBC can be easily exported to other schools. Critic says, "In Berlin, schools can choose promising talent from wealthy and progressive homes from among many applicants." However, in fact it seems that ESBC is aiming to adopt students with different backgrounds. In fact, one third of ESBC's students are Catholics, 30% are immigrants, and 7% are children of households who can not speak German. Also, ESBC is one of about 5,000 private schools in Germany, but the tuition is cheaper than the general private school in the UK and costs 720 euros (about 82,000 yen) to 6636 euros It is about 760,000 yen). In addition, 5% of all students are exempt from tuition fees.

ByMC Quinn

However, Professor Rasfeld admits that "finding a teacher suitable for the ESBC educational program is more difficult than finding a student." Currently, in Germany, about 40 schools are making adjustments to adopt some or all of "educational programs without grade or timetable" developed by Raspeld. Also, at a school in Berlin, as part of a "challenge" course, students are trekking the Alps mountains.