![]() ![]() ![]() Secondly we want to ensure that we mainly employ teachers from the local community rather than relying on foreign teachers. ![]() Students must be shown, not just told how things work in the real world.ĭue to the fact that we are reforming not only the curriculum but also the teaching approaches, we have two main challenges:įirstly ensuring sustainability for the new curriculum not just for the Academy but for the ultimate goal of being able to implement the curriculum into other schools in the country. It is therefore vital that children are taught to utilise, interact and master their environment within the context of their academic education. In addition to this, much of the work in Africa requires interaction with the environment in some way. For this reason lessons are structured in such a way that students are required to actively engage in the subject by applying the information taught in the classroom to solving and dealing with real-life challenges outside the classroom. We therefore need to overhaul this old approach and replace it with new delivery techniques which actively engage and inspire students.Īt the root of the education philosophy of the Academy is belief that children learn best through active participation in a subject, rather than solely behind desks. Whilst this authoritarian method may be effective for memorisation, it does little for developing engagement, agency, critical thinking, self-determination, tenacity and excellence within students. Eduction is an experience of being dictated to rather than being nurtured. Currently much of Africa still largely maintains the old-style European approach of “listen and repeat”. ![]()
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