Vocal Arrangement

Autor/in	McCloskey, Patrick J.
Titel	Vocal Arrangement
Quelle	In: Teacher Magazine, 17 (2005) 1, S.30-35 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1046-6193
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Educational Change; Teaching Methods; Student Centered Curriculum; Administrators; Student Participation; Decision Making; Maine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Bildungsreform; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	Nelson Beaudoin, the principal of Kennebunk High School in Maine believes devoutly in letting students have a say in how they are educated. He also knows the risks. At this student-centered school, learning includes sex education. The girls' team chooses "sexually transmitted diseases" for 300 points. Although the game is modeled after "Jeopardy," the TV show's answer-with-a-question format has been scrapped to simplify things. Grouse picks a question and reads, "Is it easier for a male or a female to get an STD from an infected partner, and why?" The classroom door opens quietly, and in slips Stephanie Sluyter, a 17-year-old junior, who wants to see how the game is going. It is Wellness Day at Kennebunk High, and Sluyter is chairing the student committee that has been organizing the event since fall 2004. In classrooms throughout the school and on the grounds outside, 46 workshops, all supervised by adults, are engaging 850 students "in fun ways to deal with teen issues," as Sluyter explained. The workshops also include activities like Tai Chi, jewelry-making, and rock climbing--selected to make the event an enjoyable experience in holistic learning. One demonstration taking place outside features a local police officer using "fatal vision" goggles to show the dangerously disorienting effects alcohol has on driving. Tonight, it turns out, is the prom. Students supervise parent-teacher conferences, they help hire new staff, every one of them is invited to participate in student government, and two sit on the district's school board, although they do not vote. The engine for Beaudoin's version of school reform is what he calls "the magic of student voice" in his upcoming book, "Elevating Student Voice: How To Enhance Participation, Citizenship, and Leadership." Student voice is not merely a matter of encouraging teenagers to express themselves but a praxis of choice based on democratic principals and balanced with responsibility. The result is an engaged student body that has transformed school culture. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10