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have been frustrated over the years
the way that education has not kept up with the needs of the community
the classroom when i was at school is basically the same
as what the classroom is now in most learning institutions
five years ago i set down with my staff
to address a concern to adress a frustration
and take my schools my colleges and my students into the future
it has grown above all our expectations
and now it reinvents the way we teach english
the way we teacher western culture through out the world
the leaders of today in government
corporate and education sectors
are seeking more from the teachers and the curriculums
Its time for us to let states and schools and teachers
come up with innovative ways
to to give children the skills they need
to compete for the jobs of the future
its not hand writing a letter and mailing it to someone
it's email is social media its communication
and different forms then when i was at school
working closely with the institutions working closely with our partners overseas
we've developed a curriculum that is revolutionary
and most of all there's been very very popular with students
with corporate with government with institutions i've found when we first
i found when we first implemented the smart curriculum
that despite any reservations i might have had initially
that my teaching style really didn't have to change in any way
the classroom was still a student centred and interactive as it always had been
the only difference really was that instead
of opening up a textbook we're opening up a laptop
one thing i like about smrt is how it simplifies things for the teacher a lot
because everything is organized and stored online
i much less prep work to do outside of class
so once the students have all loved into the me paige
we can all go together to a particular unit
and get them to open up a grammar point to be discussed
and they had access to all the notes on that grammar point
that we can talk about as a class
and then the student can go in and open up
an exercise they can do with there partners or as a class
smrt is also a good motivator for students i think that
sometimes a student who would otherwise be labeled as a perhaps an under achiever
really turns it around and gets into it with smrt
and becomes quite motivated to do the work
in the past we used to use traditional textbooks
now we no longer use that we use our smrt program
which is internet-based it's more interactive with students
it's keeping them motivated and it's more exciting for them
one of the things that make smart so lazy is the setup up
all you need is a device that connects to the internet could be an iPad
tablet computer or laptop and your ready to learn
because what is web based you can access it from anywhere in a small village
under a palm tree or rowing across the atlantic all you need is a 3G connection
it doesn't matter the size of your institution
we set up smrt in universities with over ten thousand students or a high school with a hundred
smart started as an exercise in my school with staff
to take a look at education and bring it up to the needs of the modern day
we're very proud of it it's very successful and this is just the beginning