I’ll be posting more about how the Kepler team manages these challenges–how we understand what’s working and what needs revamping, when to keep trying at something and when to work it from another angle, when to incorporate student feedback and when to push ahead even though it might feel too hard on them, how teachers create change, and what other educators and professionals comment on when they come and visit Kepler. Would love to hear any thoughts or comments on the program we’ve developed thus far!

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Using a flipped model, students are watching mooc lectures at home and preparing for classes and coming to us to do projects or other exercises that would usually be considered homework.

• Seminars are groups of 50 taught by two teachers (at least one that speaks Kinyarwanda) to go over the big concepts, do “homework” in class.
• Eventually we plan to have this seminar taught by 1 teacher and have a student assistant help with language difficulties. (Language is a challenge for our students–Rwanda switched to the English language in 2008, so they are still learning how to master reading, writing, and speaking in a second or third language).

I’ll be posting more about how the Kepler team manages these challenges–how we understand what’s working and what needs revamping, when to keep trying at something and when to work it from another angle, when to incorporate student feedback and when to push ahead even though it might feel too hard on them, how teachers create change, and what other educators and professionals comment on when they come and visit Kepler. Would love to hear any thoughts or comments on the program we’ve developed thus far!

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

Using a flipped model, students are watching mooc lectures at home and preparing for classes and coming to us to do projects or other exercises that would usually be considered homework.

• Seminars are groups of 50 taught by two teachers (at least one that speaks Kinyarwanda) to go over the big concepts, do “homework” in class.
• Eventually we plan to have this seminar taught by 1 teacher and have a student assistant help with language difficulties. (Language is a challenge for our students–Rwanda switched to the English language in 2008, so they are still learning how to master reading, writing, and speaking in a second or third language).