Individualized Instruction
Given the opportunity to construct their own understanding, children will learn differently. Each child has unique talents, ways of thinking and levels of understanding. We anticipate that children will learn at different rates and expect that children of the same chronological age will be at different places in their social, emotional, and physical development. Each child brings to the classroom a set of prior learning experiences and values from their family and community. We believe that all of these differences are important to our understanding of who a child is and how he/she makes sense of the world. The job of the teacher is not to create a single perfect curriculum or a spectacular lesson, but rather to observe individual children carefully to create instructional strategies based on what a child needs.
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