• Students work on real world problems based on design thinking principles. Teacher main serves as an expert/knowledgeble other when required by students.

Hamburg and Munich schools

• Students, staff and parents sit on a board to co-decide on selected school policies, including the hiring of school leaders.

Carl-Spitzweg Gymnasium

• Students have autonomy to decide projects they would like to work on, including for social causes with fundraising aspects.

• School took on student proposal, after student research, to install solar panels on the school roof.

Schools hire counsellors and SEN officers to support students with SEN.

• Research and raise awareness about social issues through exhibition

• Posters to teach the folding of recycled boxes to dispose cigarette butts

Student Voice & Agency

• Student plan and run the assembly programme

• School based decisions are made through voting facilitated by student leaders

• Student leaders meet up with the School Leadership to share their views on school improvement

• Students volunteer and roster themselves to run school programmes such as school tours and managing the school farms/gardens

• Students negotiate and agree on class rules and activities.

  
  

• Student Council in schools, and head of Student Council can be a member of school board

• Student leaders meet up with school management to share ideas for school improvement (e.g. making school environment better)

Project-based/Problem-based Learning

• An elementary school reaches out to businesses in the company, for students to support the company in sustainability efforts (authentic problem solving)

• As part of global literacy and cultural understanding, students are given opportunities to travel and have exchanges to better understand cultural differences immersively.

Creating space for projects to be done within the community, initiate the projects, involving the community.

Daily teaching and learning - norm setting and routine setting (traffic lights)

Authentic Project Based learning

Student agency through voice and choice

In some schools, student decide / choose topic and area but in others, school decides with the community.

Skills and competencies are developed to empower students as change agents of the future.