This document discusses the philosophy of the Riverside School and some of its core ideas: 1. It questions whether schools should prepare children for life or be an integral part of life. 2. It discusses ideas like what is a child, what is childhood, and how children can shape their future. 3. It promotes the idea that learning occurs when the approach shifts from "Teacher told me" to "I am doing it" and discusses implementing a common sense model.

1. Riverside
Where Common sense
is Common practice

2. Are schools a preparation
for life
or an integral part of life?

3. Who is a child?

4. What is childhood?

5. And finally…….
finally

6. How can children
shape their future?

7. Why is
Riverside
an idea worth sharing?

8. Street play- Jaago

9. Learning occurs when there is a shift from
“Teacher told me”
to
“I am doing it”

10. The Common Sense Model

12. Audio tour

13. The new 3 ‘R’s
Student
Teacher
Parent
Community
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14. The value we put to the
choices we make

16. Content choices

17. The Subversive Curriculum
Building the Culture of a School

19. Glue Program

20. The Common Sense Model

21. Teaching as a Craft

22. A
Adult Learning

23. The Common Sense Model

24. Parent Partnership

25. Philosophy of
TIMEtabling
Flexible / Intensive / Accountable
Student days – 200
Team days – 253

26. Add to this….
15 years of a child’s life in school
is spent telling them they
must care
about all sorts of ideas….

27. Of course we tell them
they must care about
quadratic equations,
and photosynthesis,
and sentence structure
and the height of Mt Everest.

28. But should we
not also
teach them to care about
child abuse
inequality
prejudice
intolerance

29. Not
Either, Or
but
Both, And
( Skills and Attitudes )

31. Be the change

32. So this is how
Common Sense
becomes
Common Practice

33. Riverside
Really.
An idea worth sharing?