A Report on Alternate Semester 1973-74.

Institution	Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School District, Sudbury, MA.
Titel	A Report on Alternate Semester 1973-74.
Quelle	(1974), (40 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Experiential Learning; Field Experience Programs; Grade 10; Grade 11; Grade 12; Nontraditional Education; Outcomes of Education; Outdoor Education; Program Evaluation; Rural Education; Secondary Education; Student Reaction; Urban Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Praxisnahes Lernen; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Freiluftunterricht; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Sekundarbereich; Schülerkritik; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen
Abstract	In the third year of Lincoln-Sudbury's Alternate Semester program, 22 students participated, with 2 teachers sharing responsibilities in a new program format: a fall planning unit; a 10-day stay in Grafton, Vermont; a 15-week period spent alone or in small groups, working and living in urban and/or rural settings for modules of time dictated by each students' needs and wishes; a final 2-week group project preparing an American summer camp for opening near Inverness, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Goals for the project remained basically the same: to foster responsibility, independence, awareness, and sensitivity. Rather than spend $350 per student for an Outward Bound course, the group elected to spend 10 days at Grafton, Vermont in a cabin built by the first Alternate Semester group. This report includes comments by the students on the urban and/or rural units, a student group evaluation of the advisors, an evaluation by a psychologist who was also a rural employer, and evaluations by the two advisors. One of the advisor evaluations describes nonparticipants (students in regular high school classes) as bored, restless, and motivated more by external pressures than by an interest in learning, while the Alternate Semester students "were excited by what they were learning...and beginning to find some direction for their lives." (AN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC