These kids are deep at work trying to figure out what the Sensei wants, and getting it right. At least they get to work in style. Check out this furniture! - wish you had this kind of fun place to work in school when you were seven years old?
This Gunma Kokusai Academy, a private English immersion school in Ota City, Gunma-ken, Japan, one of its kind in the entire country, thanks to a forward thinking City Council and MInistry of Education willing to try something different. This is a demonstration public school in effect; a school able to bypass the existing school regulations and policies with the help of the Japanese Ministry of Education who designated it a Special Zone School with waivers allowing deviations from standard curriculum and approved textbooks. Foreign-credentialed teachers are lead teachers in classrooms and all courses taught in English.
Change isn't easy...Wish them luck!
To learn more about the policies of the Japanese Ministry of Education towards the future of public education, such as the concept of YUTORI (allowing children 'room to grow' without - their words!: "cramming knowledge") and IKIRUCHIKARA (cultivating an environment for a "zest for living") please visit: MEXT
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