Over here, everyone would speak out loud. Classrooms reflect the educational approach of member schools. Several activities thus might be going on simultaneously in the same classroom. Educational projects are organized in such a way that children learn that all intellectual pursuits are interconnected. These portfolios are presented to committees of individuals inside and outside the school, i.e., other educators.
Portfolios are better than tests.
Even if you cannot do something in portfolio, you ask someone for help, you ask for explanation, and you still put it in your own words, you're still writing it yourself. Even if you didn't learn it before, you are learning it while you are writing. Once you present it, you know it for sure. The size of schools and of classrooms within the schools is of major concern in CCE schools. It is on the question of size that CCE schools have perhaps had the most impact on the school system as a whole.