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City Experience: Engaging Students: Innovative City Classroom Programs in the City of MelbourneHarold Beck. Once the city was a destination for teacher led day excursions. Increasingly, it has become the week long classroom for student initiated investigations. Schools are setting up short term city based classrooms for students to develop lifeskills. Surprisingly, some suburban 15 year olds have never caught a tram, viewed live theatre or ridden in an office lift at 7 metres per second. To engage fifteen year old adolescent students more in their education, innovative City Experience programs are developing. As the Education Officer in the City of Melbourne, I am involved in a wide array of student and teacher requests about studying the city. This session will outline the new needs, and proactive education programs applying the city as an exciting theme to enrich and motivate adolescents.
Presenters  Harold Beck
(Australia)
Education Officer Community Services City of Melbourne Harold beck is the Middle Years (Years 5-9) Coordinator at Bright P-12 College, in Bright Victoria; Teacher of Year 11-12 Economics, Computers, Business Management and Psychology; and currently on secondment to the City of Melbourne
Keywords
Person as Subject
(30 min. Conference Paper,
English)
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