The
visits in Scandinavia were arranged by Lene Jensby Lange. Lene is founder of
Autens which is an educational consultancy that works
with schools, local authorities, charities, architects and others to innovate
learning spaces dedicated to personalising learning. www.autens.dk
Lene and her family hosted us in Copenhagen - we had a great time sharing philoophies about curriculum and school design.
Lene took us on a tour of schools that she has been involved with in design. The next few posts are a synopsis of the schools visited in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Utterslev Skole is a new school with a focus on nature and
science. Their curriculum encourages
project based learning to encourage creativity, curiousity and
innovation.
The school has regular classroom
spaces – whole class teaching with some break out spaces.
The curriculum is subject centric –
teachers are subject teachers and have their own classroom spaces with
breakout spaces that can be used for independent learning. Creative and personalised teaching based on
student choice happens when the students are
with the pedagogs.
Their primary department has an
integrated after school club – run by pedagogs. Pedagogs are trained to teach
creatively with a holistic whole child approach.
The science facilites at Utterslev
Skole were very impressive. It is an honour for students to be selected to
look after the range of animals in the science laboritries.
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