Penpal
“The school was part of a new program designed to allow children to rise at their own pace, and to facilitate this, the administration encouraged teachers to come up with inventive and engaging lesson plans. Part of the underlying rationale, I think, was that if the teachers could trick the students into forgetting that they were at school, or that they were doing homework, the students would be more enthusiastic about their work.Moreover, if the students cultivated an eagerness for school right... out of the gate, then the general apathy that has its way of creeping into most students as the years go by could be staved off. To this end, each teacher was given the latitude to create his or her own themes that would run for the duration of the grade, and all the lessons in math, reading, etc., would be designed in the spirit of the theme. These themes were called “Groups.” There was a Space group, a Sea group, an Earth group, and the group I was in, Community.Regardless of the creativity of the curriculum, in kindergarten in the United States, aside from very basic writing skills, you don’t learn much except how to tie your shoes and how to share, and as a result of that, most of the grade isn’t very memorable.MoreLess
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