Better Learning For All

The Idea

As a fellow for KCDC, a Washington DC based free school, I want to learn how to facilitate the growth of a free school by improving our teacher training, become more widespread and accessible. I want to learn new effective means of teaching and pass these teaching skills on to the DC community.

The Plan

By documenting KCDC efforts and the efforts of other free schools, I will learn how to build on to our educational model. I will document our teacher training sessions, survey the participants for feedback and ask them for reflections. The School of the Future and the Trade School, both New York city free schools, with KCDC will jointly provide a month of classes to the general public. To see how these free schools teach and run their classes, I will document their classes and conduct interviews. This collaborative project will certainly help spread awareness about KCDC.

This grant would help purchase a video camera, and bus passes so that KCDC can travel to New York city and back. The video camera will be used for documentation.

How will you share your learning plan with the community?

KCDC will use all the information I gather to build up its teacher training sessions. With our video camera, we will record improved teacher training sessions and post them on our website to make them available to everyone in the DC community and beyond to benefit and learn to teach from.

Discussion

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