Because its like. Oh. Im eighteen and i mean thirteenth grade but its obvious im getting my High School Diploma this year and then im gone. I dont know any other school like this and sure there are elements like in a regular school but there is more freedom i like that about. The market you. Need to. Be. Downtown by. At the Lutheran High School airspeed easy a new Academic Year has begun this Project School was founded by adventurous parents ten years ago they wanted an alternative for their children to the traditional German School that concept a more imaginative institution communicating not just knowledge but human values. Catalina tire helped establish the s. P. C. She is now its principal and is deeply committed to this revolutionary approach. Then we have to rethink schooling maybe not completely but we need to for example take away the old system thats been in place for two hundred years and think about schooling from the students perspective thats what makes a school good how do we encourage participation and what do students need to know how should we teach skills what abilities will the kids need in twenty or thirty years but the day when we look at schooling from the first directive of the last century it doesnt encourage innovation that will have. A new concept of education schooling from the students perspective the kids are encouraged to show initiative. In the classroom there is student focused method plays out as an alternative to teachers centered education. Students are encouraged not merely to study new subjects but to play an active role and to think for themselves learning by discovering. Six times a year theres a project week called. During this week the students focus exclusively on a topic they themselves have chosen. Because that aims and. There are lots of different topics from scenarios of the future like not. To present Day Nutrition or more rhetorical stuff like speech analysis. Then years chose a literary project with student teacher florians event. If you didnt get it. In this post so were looking at the book deals it came out last summer written by an israeli author the historian youve all heard. About homer dares he constructs a vision of the future in which he predicts that as a result of technical advances better networking and digitalisation we will increasingly abolish homo sapien and become god like humans and so i can get little mention that the students are expected to form their own opinions of this vision of the future and instead of presenting their interpretations vocally they must develop an imaginative boardgame in this experiment they discover how they are able to influence the future and where it cant be controlled. Our topic was work twenty thirty. Extended the whole thing its now work twenty fifty in this game we want to explore how work will change during this period one. Jobs will disappear and what effect this will have on the human race in the game we assume a negative scenario in which people have to fight for jobs and robots or technical advances dont make life easier but take away the jobs jobs. Im interested in the topic work in the future because it affects me personally so of course its interesting to think about whether for instance there is any point in studying medicine when in the future everything will be done by robots. And i wont be able to find a job. That. The school has started taking in foreign students mostly refugees however zimmer comes from a privileged family in syria she attended an International School and wasnt directly affected by the civil war. But the years b. Z. And balin she has come into contact with many refugees welcome students they offered intensive language courses parallel to the other subjects mathematics history and so forth. I like german its a good language but its a its harder than other languages ive heard before and its really harder to study their english. I was struggling. For the president im going to talk about race and what his. What was it for and were going to talk about who discovered it and words to are the good things and what are the best thanks to. The. Follow. This very untidy. I must. Have. Really hard like physic. Thats hard but topic is interesting but. I felt like for we the far enough we could have a recess and thanks god i didnt experience that but some of my friends experience it. I feel excited about joining german classes with german people because i want to know whats the atmosphere like what they told the earth so. Tina and zion also knew in the tenth grade to encourage them to pound the students meet up outside of school at a time in germany. This is also part of the e. S. P. Zs concept. But. Tolerance and acceptance of each other are key values promoted by the school for students must learn to get on in spite of very different backgrounds and levels of performance. Its a challenge for all of them teachers as well as old students and new. Fence and thats because i think its nice that weve now distributed the welcome students in the classes and theyre not in separate groups months sometimes its a bit tedious when you have to keep explaining something but its also kind of nice to integrate people this way and to make sure you manage to include them so i think its definitely our job to include the students because they cant be integrated just by the teacher is the cohesion of the class is important and that we grow together. When i first come i had no friends also though welcome class were a bit too kind because they thought im not nice to them so at that time i felt like i just want to go back to syria i dont want to be here without friends. And the climbing thing i was afraid to fall down and i was really embarrassed that i was afraid of but people were like so helpful they told me i can do it. So when we finished i told myself that i couldnt do it why am i so scared. My classmates are really kind theyre like oh nice and so but its like a weird though because i didnt know them but they were going to use those. In. The School Encourages their kids to talk about what i have experienced why they learn from each other today as a group working on a project called challenge report back on their experience when. They walked in small groups. And without a teacher supervising for three weeks it was nice to tackle the everyday problems without much money and relying on their own resources. Im the father of two im up front by what we cycled along the river mine from my road to mind it wasnt planned we just had train tickets and reservations for three nights tickets that the rest we had to improvise. And thats mostly it was a real challenge we had to be very direct and ask people if they could put some through the night. But it worked out just fine. I was amazed at how nice people were. In how they invited us to sleep over. And thats when i walked by the condor. The School Principal kathleen attire carries the responsibility for these challenges. But she says experience the students gain is worth the risks. By the halls for the home and leave. You to set in the challenge the students discover their potential. They learn that they can achieve their goal as part of a group and despite their differences or in the end they discover that theyre given support when they arrive. In common. With almost all the groups experience this that they are welcome and that theyre part of the world. Theyre part of a larger community. And i close the end of my tough its a key aspect of the e. S. P. Zero experience the challenge project is part of the schools curriculum. Its finished third challenge and shes ready to report back on her experience. Group hiked one hundred sixty kilometers through the black forest on their own. And have also brought along for much the hiking itself was a challenge for us none of us have been on more than a five day hike and we were all a bit scared. When i was a little bit and im tired we have thirty kilometers and wonder. Which is really a lot even for experienced hikers and it was because we got lost i think we walked fifteen kilometers in the wrong direction we were all totally finished but we were incredibly proud of your story. And from this what i missed most was a permanent home. Challenge always a pilgrim every day we didnt know where wed be spending the night we were always footloose and im not someone who enjoys that. Challenge i learned a lot about people and about conflict of that summer and we had a lot of arguments but we always made up again. And i realized that its necessary to talk about problems otherwise they dont get better. Than the best but i think people learn Different Things that maybe not everyone learns to cope with challenges but they learn other things in c. F. L. Actually and have also got along so good now but after uncle being. At the end of a literary project linus and his Group Present a game they have invented. A game is called the new agenda you have to fight your way back to the job market and win points at various stages in your life im. Learning by planning that means thinking out of the box recognizing the social relevance why. Learning thats hard from the Vantage Point of a single subject. So the projects always combine several aspects and show how they are related. The trick is to bring together as many issues as possible in one project which doesnt generally happen in conventional teaching. Theres a skill. Thats the big challenge for us to see how free we can. Rise in this week but also to make the week relevant to the High School Diploma the students also have the option of writing an alternative exam here we have the subjects of social studies and religion all the other subject combinations are not the puzzles. In the sounds a little pressure coming up here on. The. Concept for instance you could get an event card saying your granny has died and lose the happiness point in your private life look point. You can like the happiness points in hospital you collect the health points. And you have to go immediately into private life and interrupt your career a bit because you have to balance all three. It was. So unique i havent seen anything like them anywhere and they are great opportunities of course because they focus on lots of topics that dont come up in the classroom or very seldom. As. Its learning to direct things yourself to take responsibility for things in a small area so thats what we try to encourage over and above the school subjects. The human aspects practice and experience how to manage conflicts to win and lose family thats what these c. B. C. Is about in addition to the conventional learning a vocabulary mathematical formula and historical facts. School is pretty unusual we have lots of special projects and i think its interesting that were still in the developmental phase and keep trying new things. But sometimes were very disorganized suddenly something doesnt take place or something does take place and nobody knows about it. Thats why its sometimes rather difficult to keep track of whats happening. So i guess. Yesterday there was a parents evening that i didnt know about my partner sent me a photo from the evening and texted me theres lots of interesting new changes of course that makes me nervous. We are Like Laboratory rats most of the time thats very nice because it opens up lots of opportunities but of course sometimes there are things that dont work out to stand on to so much fun as with thought. But. There are always lots of new initiatives in the school to improve the life we share and every other week there is a meeting of the whole school. It is seen to be as busy as ten years old we said anybody can celebrate a decade were going to celebrate eleven years of us busy. Thats typical of us. In the School Meeting theres a thing called tributes students and staff can come forward. Tom and i would like to call somebody to the front my big brother. But isnt. An individual is praised for helping somebody in the school or even outside and teachers praise that class who are working specially hard for an exam. Because thats what. I. Appreciated there is a key value but some people might think theres too much emphasis on a christian ethos at the easy peasy. Some of the students seem to bury their own little conflict under the larger conflicts in the world harmony at all costs. Its an issue discussing current news an Important Development because there are conflicts all over the world and the course we try to make our life together is nice and as good as possible. But in a small way there are often issues in the school that have to be addressed and its important to remind ourselves of that from time to time. Sometimes people fight because aquarius and if nothing like a couple of times there were. I think were. Different but the main main things are this thing we share the same we all believe in the same thing. So why are people leaving all of this and just fighting for the small details that i think at the end. Although very easy peasey is a Church School it is open to students of any faith however all students have to attend classes in potters to christianity. The declared enemy is not to indoctrinate them but to provide a platform to discuss their own ethical and religious ideas. Its students are just now struggling with puberty so its natural for them to be a bit critical of religion. Comes with the territory. With the most i dont think you have to accept that. As an answer thats not we give them the opportunity to look at various religions and expressions of faith communities kites is. One in which fashion in the end its up to them to decide whether something appeals to them or not i had ceased to put it in the end because thats passed me here this past. School doesnt try to convert the students or insist that they believe in god but the christian values of tolerance and love of ones neighbor are taught as well as everything that characterizes germanys democratic system and its open society the Teaching Staff represent protestant peers but the fundamental principle of religious freedom is upheld. If i can say openly that i dont believe in god and its not an issue of course some students know more things than me when it comes to certain subjects but it balances out and i dont have any problems with that. Actually im not aware that any more person people like someone but for a couple theres like a friend for the now i learned much more i could now speak more in german i have more friends and. Care in this school we. Dont feel different they respect us and we dont feel like they dont belong here i go every one of us respect as much. As. The enemy of the voice. That we like to take some students who. Not baptized and dont belong to any christian denomination. Just fifty five the key issue for me is having diversity in the School Living and learning under one roof to. Time just want to our motto is protestant bold and tolerant our aim is to question things in our teaching and in the schools philosophy. Also in what we teach. And we definitely want to students to think critically. When i finish school its going to be like plunging into cold water because i still cant do a lot of the things that are expected of me out there. But i think thats cool prepares and. Maybe warms the water a little. At the beginning i was asking my family where should i go to do something and so but now im proud of myself depending on myself to build your own life. I dont really know what to do out there in this school but i really would like to go through. Them and so i could. I hope for a positive word in the future we could be all together again like no more. Tired. But. I think were definitely privileged in germany and in the global perspective there will be important issues that well have to tackle as a community will be tricky. Which one is. Im interested in a whole lot of things and i would like to go to another country i really like to study in another country but i dont know what ill do we have. I think as soon as i finish school ill travel to see the world other places that i dont know yet are ones i always wanted to visit what i did and i were involved in that at some point or going to acting school ive always wanted to do that ever since i was little that. I think the world will definitely change in the future i dont know whether for the better or for the worse. But i think my generation can definitely make things a lot better and im going. To. Feel. Extreme weather events can prevent disasters just so whether chemical bridges and rapidly turn dangerous. Scientists are trying to make me here are logical forecasts more precise. The latest advances in Cloud Research and how drones can help predict the weather for tomorrow to do it in thirty minutes on d w. It created movie milestones it was an instrument of propaganda and persecution. It underwent a bankruptcy and restructuring. But it still turning out films today. Germanys biggest and oldest film company. A cinematic history from the german empire to the present one hundred years of starting february eighteenth on. Its food for thousand four hundred fifteen games and has been gone for ten thousand three hundred fifty. It once divided east and west germany the berlin wall. An entire generation is growing up without it but it still casts a long shadow of. The berlin wall is long gone but is it really our focus today indeed. The belief. The scars on. The pain still tangible. Suffering for god. For cities and. They have survived but do they also have a future. I really understand people whore. Say they dont want to stay here. But i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something. Beginning and peace time for the people making it possible what needs to happen here tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance. Darkness cities after more players starting march tenth on d w. Playing. League players. Playing. This day w. 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