Welcome to Rogers Learning Academy, a non-school!
Our private students progress through their individualized curricula, while they are receiving life skills and a compass for their adult lives in the 21st century.
With the aid of humanistic values we establish a qulaity community where it feels good to live and learn.
Our values:
Inspired by Carl Rogers:
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Authenticity
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Empathy
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Trust
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Open communication
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Unconditional positive regard
Similar ventures in the world
Sugata Mitra, Winner of the 2013 TED Prize: Build a School in the Cloud
/subtitles available/
Leaves of Learning
Learning Academy /USA/
A similar alternative school.
„If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong.” /Sir Ken Robinson, Anglia/
Teaching Methods
In what ways are we different from an alternative school?
Our pupils are private students.
Social competencies are developed in a community.
Each student has a personalized curriculum.
We spend together 6 hours a day.
We work with mixed-age groups.
Our class schedule offers many choices.
We prepare students for private exams.
Fridays are spent with an extracurricular study activity.
What are our private students like?
Diverse.
And they can be engaged.
Strong
They want to set their own course of learning.
Ambitious
They finish two grades in one year, they set large goals.
Swift
They do not want to bore themselves.
Stuck
They feel expectations are overwhelming.
Slow
They need more time.
Defiant
They do not accept rules without consideration.
Dys-ics
They have their unique way and pace of learning.
Pathseekers
They are driven to set off, but where for?
Available Afternoon Courses (1st Quarter)
Spanish Csizi Monday: 2.15-3PM | [/cmsmasters_td]
Harry Potter – authorship, history, politics, schooling and the world of the outcast Dávid Tuesday: 3-3.45PM | [/cmsmasters_td]
Pesonal Study Assistance Szalai Tünde, Gáll Csenge, Szalai Máté, Lugosi Balázs Monday and Wednesday afternoon | [/cmsmasters_td]
Board Games from a Different Perspective Kata Wednesday: 2-3:45PM | [/cmsmasters_td]
Katalin, Csizmazia
Founder and Head of Rogers Academy
Katalin, Knolmárné Kostyál
person centered mentor, tutor
Our Programs
Finishing two grades in one academic year, starting school without stomach cramps…
Testimonials by Parents
Study Packages
Our Graduates from the High School Era
Media
Interview with Katalin Csizmazia, director of the institute, at Civil Radio Station (language: Hungarian)
May 18th, 2016
HVG (World Economy Weekly in English) Eszter Karboth: A Place where Studying is Fun?
HVG, December 8th, 2008
/available in Hungarian/
Budapest City Council Educational Portal: Learning is Fun – Rogers Days at Rogers Learning Academy
/available in Hungarian/
budapestedu.hu/rogers_napok.html