A primary school in Soweto, South Africa, has been named a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) school of the year for its "revolutionary" teaching method.
The school's website describes it as a "creative learning environment" in which students learn in their mother tongue, their teachers study research on childhood, and their teachers "give them feedback that encourages them to be independent thinkers and problem solvers," the Telegraph reports.
The idea for the school, which opened in 2010, came from one of the school's teachers, who was struggling with teaching, according to the Independent of South Africa.
Since then, the school's teachers have been encouraged to study research on early childhood education and overcome their struggles to teach.
"Our teachers constantly developed to study research on early childhood childhood childhood," one of the school's teachers tells the Telegraph.
The idea for the school came from a professor at the University of Witwatersrand who wanted to find a way for poor children to be taught in a way that would allow them to learn better in the future, the Independent of South Africa reports.
The school's approach is based on the idea that children learn best when they are stimulated, stimulated, and stimulated, the Telegraph reports.
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