Warning: the next two numbers can hurt the susceptibility of the most sensitive to the evolution of the species: 70% of future jobs of first-year students do not yet exist and 50% of current jobs can easily be transformed into jobs done by machines.
Given this scenario, there is more than one option: ignore and continue to take dead-end courses, fight against the use of machines that already receive shillings in tolls and where we pay at the gas pump, or change the chip and gain bases for a more technological future. If the choice falls on the third item of this list, the number 21 of the Avenue Discoveries in Lisbon, can serve as a small incubator of ideas.
In The Park School, as well as bilingual education, everything is based on technology. programming are taught by the third year, and from the room, each student has an iPad. There are computers and 3D printers available for students to use in presentations to the class and the parents who have to do periodically as a way to lose the fear of public speaking. “These students come here prepared for the new world of work, which is quite different from what their parents had to face,” says the i the founder and director of The Park, Barbara Beck Lancaster. Take the iPhone that has landed ahead and ensures: “This has more information today than the White House had 20 years ago.”
It was on this premise that Barbara joined Marta Vilarinho, responsible for the educational aspect, to create a different school. In 2002 implemented the model of teaching in schools within companies, “made to make life easier for parents who worked there,” he says. The interest of those who saw the program was made with the project from extending to an independent school that is preparing to extend the curriculum until the 12th year. This investment of 7.5 million euros, which includes the construction of new infrastructure in the Restelo area will make of The Park the first International School of Lisbon.
Technology based Who chooses to teach at this school must be prepared to enter the room and escape the classic “open the book on page 43″. Here there are virtually no books and, by the third year, students build their own sebenta with information that will collect throughout the year. From the bedroom, all this is replaced by the iPad, used in all disciplines. Barbara even consider that “without technology schools are like aliens for today’s kids” and that’s why, at the school who directs the final works can either be made from recycled material and mounted through a 3D printer. As a common point for this work are the presentations in front of the class or to an audience consisting of parents and teachers. “You can go into any room and ask a student to stand up and explain the matter to colleagues that he will do so without shame,” he says.
The bilingual makes the difference What started just as a school for pre-school kids has spread over the years, much to the request of parents. To this it contributes not only the fact that it is a bilingual school, but mainly the differences of teaching method chosen by management. In nursery and garden for children, the program is individualized and enables children to explore the world through the five senses, following individual rhythms. The first round bet on active learning, with a design pedagogy in which the disciplines complement each other. This program extends up to the second cycle, with extra help on study methods.
From the next school year and start with those who now follow for the seventh year, the third cycle will follow the international curriculum of Cambridge, a model that allows both a continuation of the particular method of the school as the constant integration Portuguese as usual language in some subjects.
“The brains of children acts as a sponge and that’s why for them is supernatural passing a given matter in Portuguese into English of the next class,” says Barbara. For example, until the fourth year they have Environmental Studies as all other students, but while the kings are given in Portuguese, the solar system is taught in English. From the fifth year keep the Portuguese, mathematics and history in English, but all other subjects are now taught in English, a kind of preparation for what is coming.
If until now only 5% of school Restelo – one of four of the project, which is divided also by Cascais, Bethlehem and Taguspark – was made up of foreign students, the announcement of the international education enlargement up to 12 did shoot the number of stakeholders. Of the current 850 students divided among the four schools, it is expected to be surpassed the mark of 1700 in the next five years.
In September, new classes will occupy a space created for this purpose in Alfragide, but there are already date for the return to Restelo, which will help complete existing infrastructure:. September 2017
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