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Arrangement until now about Jenaplan from my opinion (just to improve my skill for writing) [English/game]

1. What is Jenaplan?
2. Classroom as living room
3. Multiage class
4. circle conversation
5. world orientation
6. Rhythmical curriculum
7. Quiet space
8. Pedagogical situation
9. Authenticity
10. Team working
11. Cooperative attitude with parents
12. Background of Jenaplan
13. Supplementation
14. My standing point





▼What is Jenaplan?
From the past century to this time, nowadays we are standing at a turning point. How can we make our life better socially? I would like to suggest an effective curriculum and model/plan for education and that is the Jenaplan.

Jenaplan is one of the education programs in the Netherlands such as education plan for Montessori, Freinet, Dalton, Schteiner, and so on, like alternative school. Its purpose is to make better social and for that realization, it has various topics. I will explain each topic in detailed after. At this moment, I would like to introduce some topics. Class as living room , Multiage class, Circle conversation, World orientation, Rhythmical curriculum, Quiet space, Pedagogical situation, Authenticity, Team working, Cooperative attitude with parents. In this essay, I will describe the plan mentioned above moreover there are other 20 principles for educational program.

This Jenaplan is from Germany. Peter Petersen (1884-1952) made this education plan. But this plan finished in Germany when Petersen has died, incidentally, it was reimported from the Netherlands to Germany. Afterwards, Suus Freudenthal-Lutter (1908-1986) who is dutch scholar, discovered Jenaplan and then she brought it to her country the Netherlands. I will describe also history and backgrounds after this moment because the social condition is the most important fact.

Jenaplan aims for true democratic social. True democratic social means that everyone is equal but unique, we should understand everyone's differences and treat each other fairly and equally, in other words, we can say also that each one of us has citizenship that's one kind of the initiatives for our social life. This is not revolution. It's a little creation from school. We can begin from a little seed and raise up to certain flower. Jenaplan is one of the concrete ideal plan for education and social. Lastly, I have to add one thing that Jenaplan is efficient and sufficient to our way of life as well as to help us grow our well-being.





▼Class as living room

Jenaplan school’s class is thought of a living room. In this chapter, I will describe how the class room is arranged as well as why the class must be living room.

Everyone has to have some responsibilities to their environment. Therefore each of them has to discuss the fair distribution of the tasks and the rights inside the classroom and decides it, since Jenaplan is based on equality, the teacher serves as their group leader and facilitator.

The instructional materials in the classroom are indispensable for every students. The classroom should provide a circle space (or a space for making circle) for a group discussion or some activities. Moreover, the classroom should have a working table for them, a clerical table for group leader, relaxing space, pc space to study and for searching information, bulletin board for some announcements and space where they can expose and practice their creativity like arts and science, there is a big and wide table for classroom activities where every students is involved. The furniture in the class such as student’s desks and chairs etc. should be used functional materials for that students can move/use more easily because they all need to make circle space for conversation always. It is expected that some chairs or tables will be found anywhere due to different activities and circle work, but it can easily be settled down.

Jenaplan school’s designs are based on pedagogical situation which Peter Petersen suggested strongly. School is living place that’s why teachers have to offer the best environment which all student can feel safe and each of them can find his/her own space for students. Although it is not only this, safe space for living is the most important for learning. Jenaplan school embodies a little ideal community in their own school.





▼Multiage class

A class organization of Jenaplan school is basically a multiage group. Indeed it might be difficult to realize in many countries, however I would like to tell the validity of multiage class in this essay.

The advantage of multiage class is the best way to grow up their citizenship for social in the future. I will pick up some reasons which Petersen suggested. To start off with, they have beginners, intermediate and advanced total three grades students in a class. Thus, every students can undergo all these stages as they grow up until they graduate, because this organization consists of different ages with different abilities. For that reason, students can learn with each other and take three kinds of places like learning, working, and coaching. Moreover even if someone always gets “excels” and make a go of something, they have to try to compete to get the same place with other persons who have better ability. Secondly, it is effective way to know, appreciate and value every student’s differences as well as to cut off our discrimination and bad notion between abled and slow-learner students, and that’s why, personality of child and real leadership is born. Thirdly, every year a number of a class change about one-third. One-third is the best number because they are guaranteed that traditional good habits and cultivated educational values keep living. Lastly, students can live better in social, consequently, school prepares same environment as social.

In conclusion, multiage class organization is certainly better for democratic social more than same-aged class. As a matter of fact, Jenaplan has been stablished and applied to Germany and Netherlands, yet it is very hard to build like this organization in many countries. However, the important thing is these essence and thinking. so finding the better method is to know the countries' background,that is, they should apply and practice their own way in their country.
The essences are we are all different and each of us is unique besides we can respect each other. the implication of this program is, we should do something for the betterment of our children's learning as well as to help them nurture and prepare for their future.





▼Circle conversation


Circle conversation is a core program in many topics of Jenaplan, because it is organized in rhythmic curriculum as one important factor. The rhythmic curriculum is consist of 4 factors which are circle conversation, working, playing, and celebration. In this chapter, I will discuss why they make a circle and do a conversation there.

Circle conversation caters some different queries and student's concerns as well as establish equality. It changes the negative notion between the knowledgeable person and the unknown one like teacher and students. These embody the interactive relationship for learning. In fact,making a circle like conducting a meeting or conference that is open to any ages either adults or children has been known in the Netherlands. Actually, it seems to feel that circle dialogue is better than conversation.
Why does it seem like dialogue? A dialogue has two categories. First, it helps students ask and answer questions. Then second one, it guides students to search the essence of the things around them. What are the differences of conversation, debate, discuss , and dialogue? We should always consider of its problem.
Why does it seem like circle? It describes and explains that every students can learn by doing with real people and not just only the materials provided. In addition, it also brings them to socialize others with different personalities, skills, ages, and races. People in the circle can exchange ideas and share their innermost feeling and concern with each other freely. This form of education discourage the common prejudice of people towards the different skills and students level of comprehension.

For those reasons, they can talk more easily because their classmates are already prepared for listening. However, we want to have some notifications to do circle conversation,that is, teacher as facilitator has to explain the rules as well as to suggest some grounds to make a dialogue and do a role play within a circle. If you can pay attention to all, that’s wonderful thing. Every student learns something by doing or by experience. The circle conversation can be applied either before the class starts or during the lecture or when the activities is finished.




▼World orientation

There is no classification between science and social study in Jenaplan, and then people use world orientation in the form of comprehensive curriculum. Thinking, teaching materials, way of teaching, and curriculum over world orientation have developed in the Netherlands extensively.

World orientation has “seven areas of experience” and “time” besides “space” as well as these are treated (dealt with) in a circulation. “Seven areas of experience” are: (1) making and using (work, consumption, sustainable possibility) (2) environment and topography (inhabiting of humans, plants, and animals, global universal environment as living house), (3) circulated a year(the dates in a year, some celebrations, the year of school), (4) work skills(construction, machine and materials, big system, raw materials and energy, how to use skills etc.), (5) communication(with other person, nature, besides with foreigner in nature etc.), (6) living together(belong a social, for living together, sharing the world etc.) and lastly my life(I, people, adults etc.)
In addition, “time” means to measure time in nature, use time, consider time from philosophical point of view, circulative time, continued time like a line etc. Moreover, “space” is: be conscious of space, recognize value of space and think how to use it, make development thought after due consideration, how to measure space study, space and nature, consider space from philosophical point of view and so on.
School decides eight or nine themes things in a year and treats same thema for all school. Man picks up these themas or areas but the goal of learning takes up concrete things and experiences in order to adapt each aged groups of students. For instance, in the case of “inhabiting of animals and plants” on “environment and topography”, low grade’s groups pick up a thema of “winter wild birds”, middle groups are “a branch of winter trees” and high ones treat “a hibernant animals” in the term.

World orientation is able to interweave other basic subjects like mathematics, national language. Moreover it can be derived from other thema such as, music, drama, learning of maps, searching on pc, learning of English and more. In addition, the class conducts a presentation that aims active learning activities as well as provides a place that is conducive to learning to encourage student's participation with different levels, and ages. Owing to that,students discover and understand the significance of school life and are able to learn things comprehensively.
Basically, the learning takes place when a group leader makes a link to students by acting as a facilitator, in which he listens to, caters and gathers all the questions to help students find the answers and surmount the problems the students have been facing to make a proceed learning on the plan which is connected to the theme they tackle.
(Basically, group leader relates students while acts some roles to processes as facilitator that group leader arranges their own questions and has a talk with everyone for a process to find an answer as well as make proceed learning on a plan on the assumption that question which is based on children to objects of thema is a starting point for learning.)

World orientation has profound and important factor to learn things more effectively in a circle or in a group because it increases the students’ participation when everyone has given a chance to make an observation and share it in the circle where interactions are visible. In a nutshell, every students’ skills and knowledge will be trained and the character of every individuals will be molded and nourished. That is indeed the significance of world orientation.
(World orientation has also important factor as talking with each other in a circle through class, little group, own observation as well as other children’s observation, in addition, spread knowledge, difference of each other, and give a place for learning cooperation.)



▼Rhythmical curriculum

On the Jenaplan school, it doesn’t make a curriculum divided subjects. Basically, it consists of 4 matters which are circle conversation, working, playing, and celebration and then we circulate their activities for curriculum. Why does Jenaplan implement this system? I’d like to say my opinion.

As far as I’m concerned, I have a conviction that rhythmical curriculum can serve real study to students. It means that we have to learn how to learn in our life and should think about relation between “I” and the world, therefore education has a role to connect children and the world. It goes without saying that all things in their life are certainly learning experience for children. According to my previous article, “circle conversation” draws out pupils’ latent question, based on their questions, students proceed their own assignments on “work”. Moreover, its learning changes into experience through “playing”. In addition, through their experiences which obtain 3 factors of learning make them hold an event as make a generalization and assessment for learning.
For instance, if a student has to carry up a heavy stone, it will be impossible for her or him to do without any tools or equipments like a lever. Then pupils think “how to carry up the stone?” Teacher does not give an answer, but facilitates and serves them in a circle conversation. When they have an idea about different way how to move a stone, teacher suggests “Let’s try to do it”. When they succeed bring up the stone, many sow bugs are running away to hide somewhere. Teacher can make exercises for some subjects such as national language, mathematics, history, science, music, P.E., drama, and art. For example, national language “How to write a sow bug? Can we make some story with a sow bug”, mathematics “How many sou bugs was there? Can we measure the stone’s weight and length?”, history “ How old is the stone?”, science “About a life for a sow bug.”, music “Let’s try to create a song for sow bug.”, P.E “ Let’s try to think about a sow bug gymnastic.”, drama “ What does a sow bug think about when they are found by enemies, and let’s try to move as a sow bug, and also create their story.”, art “ try to draw or create a sow bug.” as work. Besides they do something as playing, in addition, when their activities deepened, they consult with each other or teacher suggest an event such as presentation like drama or music or study and so on, for all students and teachers and also parents in the school. Naturally its planning is succeeded by students, teacher just gives an environment to do an event.

In conclusion, rhythmical curriculum can keep student’s concentration and create their motivation as well as connect “I” and this world. If they discover that learning in their own school connect this world and share the information, moreover they are fun, they can obtain independence. It is important for human who lives in the social.



▼Quiet Space

Can we really have enough time for thinking in the bustling world? Thinking time is one of the important factors in our life. In this essay, I would like to tell about quiet environment to study.

We should have time to meditate in our living time. Meditation helps to bring us relaxation, arrangement and exploration of though, and creativity as well. The Jenaplan school emphasizes to increases more chances and opportunities for meditation that is one of the essential tools effective learning. In other words, the school provides time that is called blok hour for self studying time to gauge how much they have learned something and review it more with tranquility of the place. In addition, this is able to relate two sides of the same coin with a securing place where children can frankly speak up with each other on their own initiative if it adopts time for group work and circle conversation. As I wrote article before, quiet study time is also one of the matters cycling rhythmical curriculum. It is important that all activities for learning connect to the world, this is why we need time to think ourselves about various things for connecting our small familiar world and factors which consist of our world.
Even if Jenaplan school has attractive and efficient curriculums, it has no meaning if children don’t have interest and initiative idea. Thinking gives birth to questions besides curiosity. Moreover, they can also concentrate on their own study.

There are several questions that have infinite answers, so the school should encompass an environmental that is quiet and conducive to learning as well as respect the students’ time to think and make decisions on their own without hassle and pressure. It is different for children to answer the things which they can’t understand quickly or to solve the problems with hearing from their teacher or friends. A quiet place helps students to explore and widen their imagination and provide time to ponder to construct and create a reasonable and intelligent idea from numerous questions that have unresolved and infinite answers.




reffered to Articles of Japan Jenaplan Association

http://study.japanjenaplan.org/
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