showcase

Teaching in Schools, Showcases, Elective Modules. All That Jazz.

There's something I really enjoy about running education programmes in schools - Showcases.

This typically happens at the end of Elective Modules (where students get to pick a topic they’re interested in that the school has invited trainers to come in and train on).

Examples of Elective Modules (EMs) have included aeronautical engineering, automotive engineering, coding and programming, fashion design, barista skills, health science and healthcare, life sciences, and so on.

There are a few schools that seem rather opposed to the idea of Showcases for some reason, but I’ve always found them to be one of the most valuable parts of running an education programme.

What better way to learn than to teach someone else what you’ve learned?

Of course, due to pandemic, Showcases are pretty scaled down now. At most, they are restricted to their individual rooms, and only the teachers and other school leaders go from room to room.

The experience is, undoubtedly, diminished, but I maintain that it's better to have a lesser experience than nothing at all.