Frontiers Enablement Model
The Frontiers Enablement Model is a complete approach to teaching that develops all aspects of a student's character, rather than just focussing on the academic.
Professional Development Resources Enablement Model 5. Self-reliance
5. Self-reliance
Frontiers was founded on the idea that practical skills such as bushcraft and survival skills provide a learning opportunity to highlight the differences between what we want and what we need; what we can do for ourselves and what we need others to do for us. A key part of this is our learner-centric teaching approach, in contrast to the majority of school-based learning which is content-centric, i.e. the learners are 'empty vessels' to be filled with content by teachers. Download a document comparing content-centric and learner-centric approaches to learning. By giving the learning responsibility to teachers and schools, young people can feel disconnected from the activity. When they can instead set their own targets and monitor their own performance, rather than the teacher assuming responsibility for what is learned, our experience is that young people acheive more and develop further. |
