Transcript MicroSociety: Kids at Work! - Noah Webster MicroSociety Magnet

:Kids at Work!
What is a MicroSociety?
• A mini society created by students
• Student run ventures and agencies
that are tied to state standards and
all curriculum areas
• A school where children have voice
and choice
MicroSociety Building Blocks
• Students in a MicroSociety® experience a wide variety of
learning environments. They benefit from the MicroSociety®
Building Blocks of “Student Voice and Choice”, “Learning by
Doing”, “Entrepreneurial Spirit”, “Real World Experiences”,
“Teachers as Facilitators”, “Shared Responsibility and
Authority”, and “Partners as Contributors”. Through these
ideals, students become more motivated learners, guiding their
own education while experiencing a small part of what it is like in
the “real world”.
Mission Statement
• Noah Webster MicroSociety Magnet School provides
an innovative learning environment that helps
students from diverse backgrounds develop values,
self-discipline, work habits, and academic and life
skills needed to achieve success in a global society.
Noah Webster MicroSociety
Magnet School
Guiding Principles:
• an innovative, nurturing and safe learning environment that
connects school academics with real world experiences
through the creation of a functioning miniature society
within the school.
• a thriving family of active lifelong learners who create and
encourage exciting and meaningful teaching and learning
whereby students achieve their highest potential and
develop a love of inquiry and learning.
• a place where curriculum is implemented as an
interdisciplinary approach that develops creative problem
solving, critical thinking, work habits and academic skills
while enhancing values and self discipline, to achieve success
in a global society.
• a place where parents, teachers, students and community
collaboratively share accountability for student
achievement while encouraging leadership opportunities
and an appreciation of diversity.
• an empowered society of contributing citizens that
strengthen the community, based on an understanding of
the skills, needs and diverse roles of students, parents,
teachers and community to build and expand strong
partnerships.
“Shared Responsibility and Authority”
How did our MicroSociety begin?
In 2003, students wrote and signed the Constitution of
Noah Webster MicroSociety Magnet School. They
learned about what it means to be a MicroSociety.
“Student Voice and Choice”
Students in grades 5-8 write business plans and interview prospective
employees for jobs at the Job Fair. They bring their resumes and use their
best job interview skills.
“Real World Experiences”
Students in the lower grades work at “Deliver Wee
Service” delivering the school mail. Students are
encouraged to write letters to their friends and teachers.
“Entrepreneurial Spirit”
Kindergarteners work at “Four Corners of the World”
teaching others about Australia, Mexico, Japan and
Africa.
“Learning By Doing”
At the Kindergarten “Dinosaur Museum”, students become museum
docents, teaching you all about the various dinosaurs that they have
learned about.
“Partners as Contributors”
When Deloitte and Touche and Landmark Partners come for Junior
Achievement Day, they enjoy visiting our many ventures that are open for
business on Discovery Day.
“Teachers as Facilitators”
The teachers help facilitate the ventures and agencies but they are run by
the students.
Here are some more pictures of our students at work!