Why becoming an open school?

Why should a school become "open"?

Open Schooling  can provide the participating schools with numerous opportunities to engage in local, national and international activities with lasting benefits for the school heads, the students, the teachers, the school and the local community.

Here are the main ways in which the school could benefit:

FOR STUDENTS:

• Knowledge of the society and its challenges
• Enabling students to act in front of societal challenges
• Enriching the diversity of learning experiences
• Interactions across generations, which enable exchange, coexistence, and comprehension
• Connecting learning with project-based and experiential based learning > active learning approaches
• Develop new options for youths from different groups to interact, within or outside of the school.

FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL MANAGERS:

• Helping teachers in creating a more engaging and interesting journey at school
• bring together the school and the family; 
• broaden the cultural universe of youths and teachers.

FOR SCHOOLS:

• increasing schools’ visibility
• from a closed space of learning to a social/educational hub
• recognition of schools as crucial function in the society: establish closer relationships and solidarity among youths, teachers, and communities, creating spaces for coming together, dialogue, and affection.

FOR THE EXTERNAL SOCIETY

• Augmenting the visibility and network of local realities 
• Schools meet  « market» needs.