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No, don’t let the little red schoolhouse fool you…in recent years, the little red schoolhouse has been making a comeback of sorts in a variety of ways from being in someone’s home that doubles as a small school to being part of a small virtual classroom conducting remotely.
The microschool has grown in popularity in recent years with the controversy surrounding educational matters that are going in public schools. In microschools, students can learn within small groups of students that are easier to them and to the teachers teaching them.
But perhaps no one should benefit a microschool setting more than special education students and teachers. As I can tell from firsthand experience that small classroom size settings are critical not just to a student’s mental health, but their overall educational journey. In fact, being in a microschool type setting in both Middle and High School allowed me to build bridges and relationships with teachers and administrators.
You might say it was a microschool in a public school if you get the point.
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The Disney short “Adventures in Music: Melody” (1953) demonstrates a visualization of a Microschool
One thing that I think we learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic is that learning in our own environment with a small group of students can help a special education student learn and grow easily. Plus, microschooling sends a message that you don’t have to be traditional and rigid in terms of education. Being out in the community and learning that way is better than any traditional classroom setting.
For the past year, I have been working alongside a microschool called Infinite Learning Academy and since then I have been able to be exposed to other types of microschools, mostly in Florida. In fact, there are many microschools in Florida on account that not only is the weather nice year round which makes field trips all the more frequent, but also that microschool teachers have the freedom to create their own curriculum that plays to the student’s strengths.
The truth of the matter is that there are many special education families who have children struggling in public school and want to get out of it. I feel that the more microschools that are out there, the better the student will thrive later in life once their education is complete.
But in the end, it’s up to the parents and the students themselves to decide whether or not the Microschooling is the right fit. It may be the right fit, it may not be. But it’s worth looking into at least once. If you want to learn more about the Microschools in Florida, I will leave the link down below:
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Catch you all later!!
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