Your Name and Title: Catalina Valenzuela
School or Organization Name: Learning One To One
Co-Presenter Name(s): Erika Twani CEO
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Americas, Europe, Asia
Language in Which You Will Present: English (can also present in Spanish and Portuguese)
Target Audience(s):Teachers
Short Session Description (one line):
FRE Methodology: Preparing the students for the 21c challenges.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
In Chile, Liceo Bicentenario Molina celebrated its highest county scores on National Standardized Tests above public, private and charter schools, after only 12 months working with Fontan Relational Education (FRE).
FRE is called “Relational” education because students move to the next topic in all subject areas only when they are able to “relate” everything they learn to their daily lives, increasing knowledge retention and their chances to succeed academically, developing true cognitive skills. Previous experience validates that FRE works equally well with students with disabilities, allowing them to perform as any student. Public schools using Fontan Relational Education have improved performance in as little as one year after adopting our methodology.
Fontan Relational Education develops key 21st Century skills that enable students to highly perform in the global world. These entrepreneurship skills are naturally developed and practiced during their academic experience:
Autonomy: Students are supported by educators on the development of their intellectual and personal autonomies.
Solution of Real-World Problems: Student’s work is based on constantly solving problems of their lives and their communities.
Planning: Students plan their hourly and daily schedules, in agreement with their educators and respecting their Student Learning Plan.
Effectiveness: Students develop the ability to search for resources, manage the various available tools, and administration of their own time.
Critical Thinking: Students build processes from questions.
Decision Making: Students decide upon various elements of their working plan.
Responsibility and Accountability: Students learn to accept consequences of own decisions.
Leadership: Students join others is a proactive and daily activity, supporting the community in their “expertise.”
Excellence: Students must achieve excellence to move to the next topic and grade level.
Creativity: It is the only path to answer questions.
Relevant Learning: The development of individual potential is achieved through personalized Student Learning Plans.
Technology Enabled: Students use technology as the main learning tool and are opened to the world.
Collaboration: Students work requires peers and educators to reach excellence.
By practicing every day in everything students do, these skills become a natural way of living.
FRE is a pedagogy model that customizes learning paths for different learners at an individual level based on students’ abilities and interests, relating everything they learn to their own reality while using technology as the platform for personalized learning. This methodology provides the adequate framework to allow students to become autonomous. They advance at their own rhythm based on their abilities, likes and life experience.
We are aiming to reach 100,000 students in 2014. We have already implemented the methodology in more than 10 schools in Colombia and Chile and one in Miami, Fl, USA.
More details here:
http://l1to1.org/pdf/A%20Glimpse%20of%20FRE.pdf
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Replies
Hi Catalina -
Thanks for your proposal. Can you elaborate on how this relates to our mission? Look it over here and make a few edits so that the connections are clear: http://www.globaleducationconference.com/notes/The_GEC_Mission_Stat...
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
Dear Lucy:
Thank you very much for your comments.
I reviewed my proposal.
Catalina, the idea was that you would make the edits before conference week started. I left comments for you over a month ago. I will accept this, but keep in mind that the schedule is pretty full right now, and you may not find the most ideal presentation time to suit your schedule.
Lucy
Dear Lucy:
Thank you very much for accepting the presentation.
We will fit it on any available spot.
How could we miss this?
Many thanks again.
Regards,
Catalina