Archives: Schemes of Work
Schemes of work are dynamic documents that change over time.
Summerhill Take Away # 2 : Why a Meeting?
Summerhill protects your right to be how you want to be. You choose; the Meeting does not. The purpose of the Meeting is to sort out the inevitable boundary disputes in a community of nearly one hundred people who are all trying to live vibrantly individual lives.
1. Design A School 5-1: Optional Lessons Intro
We discuss optional lessons, an essential part of the Democratic Free School engine. Also Reduced Curriculum and Freak Out subjects.
Design A School 4-3: Age Range Summary
The Age Range Train. How many coaches? The most important coach?
The Curriculum
Broad Definitions of the Curriculum Democratic Education has a bad reputation for chucking out the whole curriculum. It is time to get over this. The option is to forever be at the mercy of charismatics leading children up the garden path. I’d like to start by proposing three principles. Let’s make a curriculum appropriate to…
The Reduced Curriculum III: Getting it Wrong and Getting it Right
Here I talk about my own experiences as the English teacher at Summerhill School and what those experiences meant for my evolving awareness of what a reduced curriculum might be.
The Reduced Curriculum II: Against Bloating
The second of three posts on the reduced curriculum. Here we look at the phenomenon of bloating in the curriculum: how to avoid it. Create a better curriculum in a free school.
The Reduced Curriculum 1 The Podcast
Introduction to the reduced curriculum in Summerhill-style schools.
The Reduced Curriculum 1
The first in a series of posts about the Reduced Curriculum to help subscribers to Summerhill Democratics think about this important issue in setting up a free school.
Curriculum Matters
Talking about the Curriculum in democratic free schools.
