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Rossland Secondary School will be one of the first schools in British Columbia to delve into a new realm of learning called blended learning. The goal is to provide personalized and inquiry based learning in a blended learning environment, which will offer students a variety of courses, even within a smaller school environment. Karen Lavender, the school’s new principal said that blend-
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ed learning the new approach will only affect grades 10-12 at the school, as administration switches to a 21st Century learning model. The blended learning structure leaves behind set timetables and gives students a structure of open resource areas and structured seminar times. Lavender explained that what it will really be doing for the grade 10 to 12 is opening up their learning potential . “Students will still take specific courses and they will still come out with their course credits,� Lavender said. “They
will still be matching all of the learning outcomes required for each of the courses. What looks different is that instead of going to math class at a specific time on a specific day, the kids can pick when they do their math and they can pick when they do their phys-ed and they pick when they do their art.� Students will have resource areas, a classroom with a teacher and 30 kids in it, she explained. There will be a math/science resource area that will always have a teacher there. “It will always be open, the
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same thing with the English/ Socials area,� she said. “The elective areas won’t be open all the time but it will show when it is open.� Students will manage their time with the help of a facilitating teacher, which will include when they’re going to take what course and how long it’s going to take them to finish the course. They will be able to take courses by semester, as they are currently do, or they can take them over the whole year span. For example, if a ski academy kid decided that they want
to have fewer courses through the ski season they can do that. They could focus their course time between September and the middle of November, and the beginning of April and end of June. She said the students would still have courses through the ski season, but maybe just one or two. “They can pace the course as they like, with the help of the facilitator who makes sure that their progress is continually moving forward and they’re not going to end up at the end of the year with a huge pile of
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