موسسان اساس مدارس, مایکل و اولگا بلوک, aimed to offer the type of education students receive in the top performing education systems around the world, the type of education that would help American students compete in the global economy.
Ten years after BASIS Schools opened its first campus in Tucson, آریزونا, the school topped the national rankings, earning the #1 spot on Newsweek’s list of America’s Best High Schools, and was named a gold medal school by آمریکایی. News & World Report. In addition to BASIS Tucson, today there are a total of 6 مدارس منشور اساس عامل, از جمله اساس اسکاتسدیل (2003), اساس سلطان معماری دره (2010), اساس چندلر (2011), پیوریا اساس (2011), و اساس چوب پرچم (2011). There have been more awards and there are more schools on the way, از جمله اساس ققنوس (2012), اساس توسان شمالی (2012), و اساس DC (TBA).
چه می توانید بقیه جهان از مدل اساس دانشکده های یادگیری?
من تا به حال لذت بردن از چت با مایکل بلوک, Co-CEO of BASIS Educational Group. دکتر. بلوک B.A. خود را دریافت کرد, M.A., و دکتری. در اقتصاد از دانشگاه استنفورد. قبل از اساس, او استاد اقتصاد بود, Professor of Law and Director of the Office of Economic Education at the University of Arizona.
Can the BASIS Schools model be replicated across the nation?
We are expanding our model and opening BASIS schools in more locations. We have about 4,000 students attending six BASIS schools this year. Next year our programs may reach approximately 6,000 دانش آموزان. This is still very limited reach when considering the millions of students receiving mediocre education across the US. The bigger issue might be ‘what is there to learn from the BASIS model?’ There are three points I think can be transferred in some manner.
اولین, we have implemented very high academic standards that are internationally competitive and higher than any American state’s requirements. We also require students to demonstrate mastery of those standards before they can progress to the next grade. در ایالات متحده, not only are standards abysmally low, but the tests used to examine students’ mastery of the standards are often poorly designed and unrelated to the content taught in school. Systems used around the world, such as the Cambridge International Exams, the College Board’s Advanced Placement exams, the Program for International Student Assessment, و دیگران, can assess mastery of high-level content. That is something I think we do well at BASIS – we teach to very high standards and then assess our students’ progress toward reaching those standards using internationally recognized assessments.
The second point is much more controversial. At BASIS we focus first and foremost on recruiting, hiring, and retaining teachers who are experts in the subject they teach. Whether or not the individual is certified to teach by the government or graduated from a school of education – که, در امریکا, is not often the most distinguished academic institution – is of secondary importance. We believe it is critical that teachers possess a thorough knowledge of the material they present to their students and we believe it is more effective for subject experts to learn the craft of teaching than for pedagogical experts to learn the subject content they may be lacking. At BASIS, we have teachers in our classrooms starting in the Lower School grades that are subject experts; many possess masters and doctoral degrees.
سرانجام, Americans seem to have given up on teaching rigorous content in middle school. BASIS demonstrates that you can teach serious subject content in these grade levels. بگذارید برای شما مثالی بزنم. We visited one of the great schools in America, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the suburbs of Virginia, and were incredibly impressed with the level of education the school imparts on its students. Thomas Jefferson utilizes a selective admissions process to enroll students who are prepared for their rigorous curriculum, but at BASIS we offer a similarly rigorous education to all students who wish to enroll. We are only able to do this because of our accelerated middle school curriculum. By starting at a modest 5th grade level and requiring students to learn more than a year’s worth of standards every year, we prepare students to take Honors and AP courses beginning in 9th grade and post-AP courses in 11th or 12th grade, just like their peers at Thomas Jefferson.
Are the BASIS schools for highly motivated students in certain subject areas only?
نکن, the BASIS education is not focused on certain subject areas. We offer an accelerated program in all core subjects; اما, in contemporary America it seems schools that provide high-quality math and science education are pigeonholed. At BASIS, all students complete pre-calculus and take AP-level science courses in the 9th grade; در نتیجه, BASIS is sometimes considered a math and science school. But while our students do outpace their peers in math and science, they also complete a minimum of one AP English and three AP history courses by the end of 11th grade, engage in six years of foreign language, take a college-level economics course in 8th grade, and participate in PE and fine arts classes throughout their academic careers. The BASIS education is much like the gymnasiums in central Europe; we offer a high quality education in all of the liberal arts.
Is the school only for highly motivated students?
Students don’t have to be “gifted” to excel in the BASIS program, but they do have to put in effort. We work very hard to create a culture of academic excellence in our schools. We hire educators who can convey passion for their subject in a way that teaches students that learning is exciting. همانطور که دانش آموزان قدیمی ساخت یک احساس مسئولیت شخصی برای آموزش خود, they become models for younger students and create a culture of positive peer pressure. This culture motivates students to excel in their academic exploration and teaches them that success is the function of hard work.
What is your process for selecting a great teacher?
Finding talent is tough. We try to have a very broad base of candidates from which we select our teachers and often search worldwide to fill math and science positions. Our interviews are conducted first by veteran BASIS teachers and then by the Head of School. The candidates then participate in demonstration lessons – in which they teach current BASIS students for two class periods – which I think is unusual in public schools. This allows us to determine whether the candidate is capable of conveying advanced concepts to young students. We have the most senior staff members at BASIS do the final round of interviews before making a decision.
After our teachers are hired, we have a summer training session which all new teachers and many experienced teachers attend. The training session exposes new teachers to the BASIS philosophy and focuses on the teaching techniques used in many of our classrooms. سرانجام, we try to mentor teachers as they begin their careers at BASIS. We spend a good deal of time with them. The process of finding and developing teaching talent is difficult and of course we make our share of mistakes.
Why do we do so poorly in the PISA test?
PISA tests what an education system teaches its 15-year-old students, and in the United States we don’t teach math and science well in middle and high school. Many 10th graders in the US have not been exposed to the concepts of an Algebra 2 course and in a many states students can graduate without taking Physics. I think that is inexcusable.
I also believe the US education system focuses too much attention on inputs like teacher certification, class size, student-teacher ratio, length of the school day and school year, the form of supplemental services, the physical plant, and technology in the classroom, and too little attention on outputs like how well students are able to master important academic content. Focusing on inputs is diversionary and means educators and school leaders have less time to assess and improve the quality of the education they provide.
Final thoughts on the education reform issues we face in the US today?
There is one more issue I want to mention that I think BASIS is designed to get at. There are two achievement gaps in the US. The achievement gap that receives almost all the attention in the media – which is real and shameful – is the achievement gap between rural areas and the poorer sections of major cities on one hand and the suburbs across the country on the other. Another much more hidden achievement gap is the international achievement gap. What US suburbanites consider a “آموزش و پرورش خوب” is actually mediocre by international standards. That’s an important aspect of the BASIS experiment – برنامه دانشگاهی ما آدرس شکاف دستاورد های بین المللی که بین ایالات متحده و دیگر کشورهای صنعتی وجود دارد.
عکس حسن نیت ارائه میدهد از اساس مدارس, وارز.
به جهانی جستجو برای آموزش و پرورش, من و پیوستن به رهبران فکری در سطح جهان شناخته جمله سر مایکل باربر (UK), دکتر. مایکل بلوک (US), دکتر. لئون Botstein (US), دکتر. لیندا عزیزم، هاموند (US), دکتر. Madhav Chavan (هند), پروفسور مایکل فالن (کانادا), پروفسور هوارد گاردنر (US), پروفسور ایوان هلمن (هلند), پروفسور کریستین Helstad (نروژ), ژان Hendrickson (US), پروفسور رز Hipkins (نیوزیلند), استاد کورنلیا Hoogland (کانادا), خانم. شانتال کافمن (بلژیک), پروفسور دومینیک لافونتن (بلژیک), پروفسور هیو لادر (UK), پروفسور بن لوین (کانادا), پرفسور بری McGaw (استرالیا), استاد R. Natarajan (هند), دکتر. دنیس پاپ (US), Sridhar Rajagopalan (هند), دکتر. دایان Ravitch (US), سر کن رابینسون (UK), استاد PASI Sahlberg (فنلاند), آندریاس Schleicher (PISA, OECD), دکتر. آنتونی Seldon, دکتر. دیوید شافر (US), دکتر. کیرستن همهجانبه هستند (نروژ), صدراعظم استفان Spahn (US), ایو Theze (فرانسه دبیرستان فرانسوی ایالات متحده), پروفسور چارلز Ungerleider (کانادا), پروفسور تونی واگنر (US), استاد دیلن Wiliam (UK), دکتر. علامت گذاری Wormald (UK), پروفسور تئو Wubbels (هلند), پروفسور مایکل جوان (UK), و استاد Minxuan ژانگ (چین) به عنوان آنها در پرسش های بزرگ آموزش و پرورش تصویر است که تمام کشورهای امروز با آن مواجه بررسی. جهانی جستجو برای آموزش و پرورش انجمن صفحه
C. M. روبین نویسنده از سری آنلاین به طور گسترده ای به عنوان خوانده شده است, جهانی جستجو برای آموزش و پرورش, و همچنین نویسنده سه کتاب پرفروش, محتوی رئال آلیس در سرزمین عجایب.
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