The Way We Do Things (terminology)

Here at Next Generation, we aim to change the way education is done. We Believe in the Power of words.

Let's explain a few of the unique pieces of terminology we use here on this side of the world. (It's only a different world metaphorically, not physically.)

Next Generation

Next Generation is more than just a generalized discussion about the children who will become our Future. Next Generation is our brand name representing the goal to arm & emPower the youth of this age, recognizing that they will be the adults of tomorrow. By revolutionizing today's education, we in turn curate the next generation.

Learning Facilitator

Learning facilitator's are the name we give our educators in charge. They are Loving, caring, Respectful, professional, educated, qualified, passionate, stern, understanding, committed, and prepared. You may be used to referring to them as a 'tutor' or a 'teacher'.

Learning facilitators use an inquiry based approach to learning. They focus on letting students explore, wrestle with, question, make sense of, critique and otherwise dive deeply into the material being presented in order to discover the intended lesson. This method results in Top Tier, life-long learning.

Our facilitators are not the beholders of all knowledge and all intelligence and all good ideas. Our facilitators are well aware of the many kinds of intelligences that exist in the human population and our students. They Believe in and find ways to pull out the genius in our students. They continuously bring the Focus back to the student. The student is the one responsible to utilize all resources, create problem solving strategies, find the pathway, and reach conclusions themselves. Our facilitators will merely facilitate this discovery. Our facilitators will provide the resources, models, example strategies, feedback, redirection, thought provoking questions, and guidance for the student to successfully reach necessary conclusions.

Why the difference?

Teachers and tutors typically (not always) take a lecture based aporoach to learning. In the traditional educational environment, you will find information being thrown at students, procedures repeated and placed around the room, questions on relevance to the real world met with disciplinary action, and exams expecting identical regurgitation of all the information received thus far.

Here at Next Generation, we believe lecture based regurgitation has been the cause of a lot of problems in society. Children were not taught to think for themselves, so as a consequence, adults have been struggling with little to no common sense, comprehension, application, and critical thinking skills.

We're not standing for that here. We, at Next Generation, encourage and require students to think for themselves. We support students at all turns, but we require the students to take on the responsibility for their learning. The difference is in the statistics. (Check out the blog post on our statistics.)

Students

We kept some things the same. Are you happy :)

Students at Next Generation

• Are those individuals of any age who understand the importance of education enough to fully commit to their learning.

• Are honest in all dealings.

• Respect the education, certification, preparation, passion, and dedication of our Learning Facilitators at all times. ALL times includes when in disagreement.

• Admire the knowledge, wisdom, and experience of our Learning Facilitators.

• Properly manage time to be able to completely Focus on their learning during the instructional time frame.

• Prioritize their learning where Facilitators do not have to fight for attention or engagement.

• Exhibit healthy and mature communication patterns whenever they are experiencing situations that cause their commitment to learning to suffer.

• Follow the advice, leadership, and guidance of all authority figures molding them into mature, model citizens.

• Understand that all humans are flawed, including Facilitators, family, and staff

• Communicate with appropriate parties to get disagreements and perceived mistakes mitigated.

Don't worry, if your student does not seem to meet these expectations just yet, we have Faith they can rise to the occasion. That's what we're here for :) If this is how you wish for your student to approach school, have no fear, Next Generation is here!! Go ahead and fill out the interest form on the home page, so we can get started on bringing out the Respectful, passionate learner in your student.

Random Capitalizations

As we stated in the beginning of this post, we Believe in the Power of words. They say you should capitalize all proper nouns. This is how you know what's important at Next Generation. If it is capitalized, it is a proper noun in our books :)

Read: Power, Future, Respect, Believe, etc

Session Names

Our session names are things such as Respect, Ingenuity, and Creativity because we wanted to take the opportunity to share some of our company values. Rather than being boring and naming each session by letters or numbers, we chose to be creative and fun with the names :) Don't worry, the session will be Focused on what your student needs. The name is just a name.