The New School Model includes rooms designed for project-based education. As a landlord, CLDI shall only provide the space. The school operators will develop their own curriculum.
As children get older, they will generally spend more and more of their time in the computer labs. However, even preschool will involve computer-assisted learning plans.
The objective of the CLDI New School Model is to facilitate a true learning-at-the-child’s-own-pace educational system. To accomplish this objective and provide a substantially improved education schools will be designed to incorporate computer assisted teaching methods.
- Children should remain in computer labs and school rooms with peers of their own age group. Such age groups will be two-year age groups. (e.g., 3-4 year-olds, 5-6 year-olds, 7-8 year-olds, 9-10 year-olds, and so on).
- Peer to Peer teaching will be encouraged. For example, at age 7 a student would be among the youngest in their age group and would often seek answers from students in who are 8 years old. When that student is age 6 or 8, he will be among the older students in their age group and would tend to be the one teaching others.
The computer Lab area shall have a centralized Teachers station with break out rooms on the outer perimeters.
- These breakout rooms are where students can gather for group instruction on certain topics in which they are experiencing difficulties.
- Students will be monitored and tutored as needed by teaching teams comprised of the lead teacher, assistant teacher(s), and teacher’s assistant(s) which might be college students.
Having teaching teams will provide on-the-job training for assistant teachers and teachers’assistants, allowing for an easily scalable system as assistant teachers become lead teachers.
- Having such teaching teams on the floor—supervising, monitoring, mentoring, and tutoring students—puts a teaching mechanism in place for both students and teachers.