Carl travels to Blackburn, England to visit St. Silas Primary School, a jewel in the Slow Education crown. He interviews Hillary Hinchliff, then the headteacher, and Chris Boyce, the architect who built the school.
(Recorded March 11, 2016 in Blackburn, UK)
Topics covered include:
1. What is Slow Education?
2. How can a Slow School thrive in a system that prizes speed?
3. What happens when designers and architects team up with teachers to build a school?
4. How can the fabric of a school help deliver the curriculum?
5. What is the right balance between structure and freedom, slowness and speed, in the classroom?
6. What do Slow Schools have in common with workplaces in Silicon Valley?
7. Why does Slow Education work especially well for children from under-privileged backgrounds?
8. The role of play in the classroom
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Carl speaks to Mike Grenier, an English teacher and housemaster at Eton College and co-founder of the Slow Education movement.
(Recorded in London on July 1, 2015)
Topics covered include:
1. What is Slow Education and why we need more of it in schools
2. How dialling down the pressure can work in all classrooms
3. What teachers can do to promote deep learning
4. The good, the bad and the ugly of standardised testing
5. The "5-Minute Warning" and how can teachers apply it in the classroom
6. What colleges and universities can do to combat the obsession with perfect CVs
7. How businesses are reshaping educational priorities
8. Trends in education around the world
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Visit the Slow Education website.