Burch agrees strongly. Teachers at the center aren t so much teachers as facilitators, he said. You have to learn to trust that children will develop naturally. Adopting the technique cannot happen instantaneously, Burch said. Personnel can be an obstacle.
Resources can be an obstacle.
There are probably a lot of factors at the Marshall lab school that make it successful, which other schools don t have access to. A good child-adult ratio is one. The lab school has a ratio of one adult for every four to six children, depending on the day, Burch said. The lab school also has the advantage that its operational costs are funded through Marshall. Salaries and equipment are paid for through parent tuition.