Category : Better Ways

The Phoenix Education Trust is a charity and a leading voice in the promotion of democratic education in UK Schools and Colleges. The UN Convention...

Teacher Steven Delpome was another to be inspired by Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk. He tried it out in the classroom, got fantastic results but was...

Philosophy for Children is a tool to support children in learning through enquiry and the exploration of ideas, it helps students learn through discussion and takes...

Alternatives in Education aims to raise awareness about different ways of educating and to support people to get involved in transforming their schools or getting...

An American site on ‘hackschooling’, the concept coined by 13-year-old TED speaker Logan LaPlante to explain how home education works Read more: Why hackschooling? (Hackschooling.net)...

A Guardian piece on “unconditional positive regard”, at a school for children who have suffered abuse, neglect or poverty and cannot study in the mainstream....

A primary school found scrapping marking to be a positive move making children more engaged and giving teachers more time with the children Watch the...

Teacher Helen Moyer implemented Sugata Mitra’s Self-Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) in Williston School, a primary school on the Isle of Man. Schools on the Isle...

We are so used to school, and to children mixing with 30 or so children of the same year group. The difference for home educated...

What can we learn from the success of the Finnish school system? Finland, by many measures, is one of the most successful school systems in...