1. Содержанию текста соответствует утверждение:

• Parents can choose homeschooling for their children’s misbehavior.

• In some countries homeschooling is sanctioned by law.

• Being educated at home children never attend any other educational institutions.

• Homeschooling implies teaching by tutors without using the Internet.

2. Завершите утверждение согласно содержанию текста:

Nowadays in developed countries homeschooling can be opposed to…

• supplementary education

• e-learning

• dissatisfaction with academic instructions

• attending private schools

3. Ответьте на вопрос:

What homeschooling ways of learning do facilitate children’s learning at schools?

• Homeschooling is an alternative to public or private schools outside the person’s home.

• Using the advantages of telecommunication technologies greatly aids not only in homeschooling.

• As well as e-learning homeschooling can be sometimes used for helping children learn.

• Being combined with traditional education homeschooling can lead to more complete results.

4. Основной идеей текста является:

• The USA experience in the field of schooling is the demonstration of the fact that homeschooling combined with traditional education can greatly promote both by leading to better and more complete results.

• In many countries parents can choose homeschooling as a legal alternative to public or private schools, considering it to be able of providing a proper school environment avoiding unnecessary religious or moral instruction.

• The majority of homeschooling parents in the United States are not satisfied with the school environment, religious or moral instruction, and academic instruction being provided at public and private schools.

• Homeschooling possessing a number of positive characteristics facilitating learning, American parents choose it for providing their children with a proper learning environment as an alternative to private schools or as a form of supplementary education.

Кейс-задача 10

A KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ

1. A knowledge café is a type of organizational workshop which aims to provide an open and creative conversation on a topic of mutual interest to surface their collective knowledge, share ideas and insights, and gain a deeper understanding of the subject and the issues involved. The knowledge café begins with the participants seated in a circle of chairs. It is led by a facilitator who introduces the café topic and poses one or two key open-ended questions.

2. When the introduction session is complete, the group breaks into small groups, with about five people in each group. Each small group discusses the questions for about 45 minutes. The small group discussions are not led by a facilitator, and no summary of the discussion is captured for subsequent feedback to the large group. Participants then return to the circle and the facilitator leads the group through the final 45 minute session, in which people reflect on the small group discussions and share any thoughts, insights and ideas on the topic that may have emerged.

3. A knowledge café is most effective with between 15 and 50 participants. Thirty is an ideal number of people. If there are more than 50 participants it is usually necessary to employ microphones for the large group conversation, and this tends to inhibit the flow of the conversation. One to two hours is required for a worthwhile knowledge café. The only hard and fast rule is that the meeting is conducted in such a way that most of the time is spent in conversation.