Curating your personal World School is a really enlightening, fun process! It happens through thoughtful discussions with and careful listening to you and your family (and with the involvement of your young learner’s school of enrollment, if appropriate). Here’s a quick look at the process:
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It’s all about getting to know each other, Children’s Concierge staff, your young learner, and the rest of your family. What are your young learner’s goals, interests, passions, projects? What experiences do you and your family want to have as you explore? It’s impossible to create meaningful experiences without knowing your family’s personal interests, passions and learning goals!
This is where together we think through which world destinations (your classrooms) fit your learning goals and your passions. It could be just one destination (Croatia, Paris, Iceland, Argentina, Machu Pichu, etc.) or several. You might already have your destination(s) selected or we might be discussing several destinations and why each might be one of your classrooms. This is great fun!
Together, we'll outline the experiences your family will have in the selected destinations. Young learners sparkle with this part of the process! They know what they want to learn and have great ideas about how they want to go about their learning, their exploring. We just need to ask them, then sit back and listen! We like to work with your young learner’s school of enrollment (pre-school – high school) to make sure experiences that are designed really embellish her/his learning-goals, if appropriate.
Children’s Concierge staff spin off and begin working with colleagues in the destinations selected for your exploring. The task is to select the experiences a destination has to offer that address your learner’s goals and passions. (See our Catalogue of Wild Imaginations and Family Journeys for excerpts from some of our families’ personal World Schools.)
With what your family will actually do at each destination outlined, we’re ready to think about your daily schedule of experiences. This blends the way you like to explore with the special rhythm of a destination. Our colleagues on the ground in each destination take the lead with this with lots of input from you!
Children’s Concierge becomes your school principal, making sure your school runs smoothly! We oversee our local partners as they take charge of your day-to-day exploring. We stay with you (virtually) as you explore, getting involved as needed, sometimes with daily contact. We don’t hesitate to jump right in! Think of a hands-on-principal!
As your World School comes to an end, we are there to help process how it all went. We are also a resource for any World School projects that remain unfinished and require continued contact with locals who were involved in your exploring.
