Schools in Canada
The schools in Canada follow a student-centered, collaborative model that focuses on developing mental skills, cultivating critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills in a multicultural environment. In kindergarten, lessons are extremely fun and playful, including pre-reading and pre-writing exercises. Life skills, such as leadership skills, are developed in children from a very young age. Students undertake missions with specific responsibilities whereas special importance is given, through a variety of activities, to social responsibility, organization, presentation and appreciation of diversity, which are encouraged at every opportunity, with careful evaluation, even if they are not the classic academic skills. The educational philosophy of the country is summarized in the fact that students should talk, communicate with each other, collaborate, work in teams, use educational games and work with real life problems. This philosophy is based on the idea that school should prepare students for real, out-of-school life, offering them experiences of the same type as those they may face in the future.