Comment by brightball
4 days ago
I have always loved the idea of a one class at a time model. I think Cornell has a program like this that I read about too.
4 days ago
I have always loved the idea of a one class at a time model. I think Cornell has a program like this that I read about too.
I think that there's a reasonably good chance that if school were like that by default, I probably would have done better. It's hard to juggle six classes at a time like you're expected to in American high schools.
If I had a magic wand and could make the education system however I'd like, I'd make it so every student spends the exact same amount of time on the subject, but I'd make it so you only ever manage a single class at once, instead of trying to interleave everything.
This isn't even that weird of a concept, even in the US; American summer schools will often do exactly this. Instead of doing an hour per day over the course of 180 days, you do roughly thirty six-hour days. That's how I took gym in high school, and how I retook calculus (even though I passed the AP exam first-try).
That’s pretty much what Cornell does. It’s basically 3 weeks on, all day, one class, a week off, then repeat.
https://www.cornellcollege.edu/one-course-at-a-time/
Interesting. I'm afraid I hadn't heard of Cornell College (apparently not related to Cornell University), but it seems legit.
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Honestly, I'd bet there are a variety of delivery models that would be most effective for each person. Having choice in that would really be amazing. Unfortunately, its also very hard to organize and measure.
Yeah, that's true. I'm not entirely sure how you'd implement it but it would be great if there was options to do the one-class-at-a-time model or the traditional one if you prefer, though almost by definition the public school system is (mostly) one-size-fits-all.