The purpose of Initial Education is the holistic development of the child, by stimulating an effective and timely manner, taking into account the characteristics of the evolutionary development, past experiences, and the potential; with a view to the fulfillment of the vision and mission of the International School.
The full development of the capacities and potential largely depends on the appropriate guide from the early experiences of learning. It is for this reason that the role of parents is critical, as the first educators of their children.
The use of this prior knowledge and experiences that children possess, are the tools that teachers use to guide the child in the construction of their learning.
The learning is built among all, in all time, space and situation.
This material was prepared with the aim of presenting the objectives of each dimension to work with the students from the institution, with suggestions on how they can work from home, and other educational spaces, to accompany and enjoy the achievements of their children.
We present the current pedagogical International College (the “Socio-Constructivist” approach to “Humanistic and Christian.”
The swiss psychologist Jean Piaget stated that “intelligence activity,” and this is observed with greater intensity in the learning of the early years. We participate together in this important process.
The pedagogical approach of the school is based on the vision of the socio-constructivist learning and the humanistic vision and the christian life. This vision emanate our educational practices.
This vision of education understands that children learn in the interaction with the environment, people, objects, language, and experiences where they grow. As they interact in their environment (home, school, and community) are developing concepts, developing their skills and their understanding of the world around them. The more rich and meaningful are the educational environments and experiences that they offer, the greater their learning and development in each of the areas of life.
The vision of the socio-constructivist considers the language a fundamental tool for the development of cognitive processes. If the language in the environment in which it grows a child is simplistic, this will think so simplistic, but if the language of the environment contains complex concepts and varied, the child will learn to think in a complex and varied. The language of the environment and the individual experiences determine the growth of their intellectual development. For this reason, it is of utmost importance to create educational environments that are linguistically enriched and offer many significant experiences with oral and written language.
The child is the protagonist of their own learning. The teachers are the facilitators of tools, to plan, organize, lead and guide you.
The humanistic vision values the experience of the person as a complex whole. Consider the dimensions of emotional, social, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Respects the diversity of races, creeds, thoughts, ideologies, etc, and stimulates autonomy. Looking to answer the question “how to live fully.” The goal is to enrich the potentialities and the total being of the person. To do this, the humanistic vision emphasizes life lessons that help children to develop attitudes and to “know how to be”.
Through this educational approach, children develop the critical thinking and reflective, and the creativity, independence and autonomy, the ability of leadership, the ability to interact with others and to solve various problematic situations in your daily life.
Children learn with pleasure, enjoy learning, playing, investigating, and exploring. Learn to learn.
The k 3 and k 4 are equipped with a full immersion into the English language and a once a week special classes of physical education, music and christian education. While the kinder 5, with the partial Immersion into the English language as it also emphasizes the Spanish language, and within the week of the special classes of physical education, music, christian education, and guarani.
What the child is going to develop gradually:
The socio-affective what we work across all areas through experiences both spontaneous and planned during the games, the corners of teaching, the patio, the reading of stories, dramas, and activities in artistic expression.
What the child is going to develop gradually:
The proposals of activities emphasize the use of oral language and written with real purpose, within meaningful contexts.
In the moments of meetings in the classroom, the children share and express their experiences, needs, ideas, feelings and opinions on various topics. Listen to a variety of children's literature of different genres and in dialogue about them. Play with sounds, letters, words, songs, and rhymes. Reading words of frequent use in posters and big books accompanied by the teacher. Written in the form a collective and spontaneous in the corner of reading and writing.
What the child is going to develop gradually:
Children learn math concepts using, exploring and playing with concrete materials and teaching in the corner of mathematics. They take advantage of situations of everyday life to solve simple problems through reasoning. In the daily routine, working with the calendar, and the assistance pane, where we emphasize concepts and mathematical skills.
What the child is going to develop gradually:
The children explore, know and appreciate her natural environment through all their senses. Develop scientific thinking through real life experiences and concrete. They take into consideration the questions and interests of the children and their prior knowledge to plan learning experiences and projects to be done in the classroom. Have a corner of sciences where they can observe, manipulate and explore the elements of nature. In addition, guided tours of the museum, in the laboratory, and the ecological park.
What the child is going to develop gradually:
This area works offering a diversity of experiences and opportunities to explore, appreciate and express themselves through different expressive media, music, body expression and the visual arts.
In the kinds of music they perform songs in both Spanish and English. Learn rhythm, pulse and lilting accent. In addition, the teachers used in the classroom music instrumental to create a pleasant environment to work and stimulate the imagination.
The expression body works in various spaces through experiences such as: create movements to different music, to represent characters in stories, and explore concepts of the topics worked in class.
In the visual arts emphasizes the development of the visual arts among which include drawing, painting, and modeling, where it increases the creativity of the child. In addition, it is an opportunity to manipulate a variety of materials and working with a variety of artistic techniques.
SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: | What the child is going to develop gradually: | ||||
Kindergarten is a very important educational stage given the ability of children of this age group to acquire and learn a foreign language at a faster pace than their older peers. Here at ColegioInternacional, we take advantage of this by providing them a safe, fun, engaging, and motiving environment where they can develop different skills in a second language. Your child will progressively learn: Ability to interact with others by responding to greetings, compliments, invitations and farewells using courtesy phrases. | Ability to interact with the other responding to greetings, compliments, invitations, and fired using polite phrases. Vocabulary (colors, numbers, shapes, sizes, animals, clothes, food, basic parts of the body, objects of the school, places, people, activities of the school and the park, daily routines, family members, times of day, calendar, among others). Describe people, places, objects, animals, and emotions. Skills for expressing experiences, ideas, needs, feelings and desires through oral language. Ability to interact confidently in the English language. Enjoy the language in its different forms of expression: readings, poems, dialogues, songs and stories. Ask and answer using patterns of language specific: Is this...? Yes-No Where is...? / Who is...? / Who do you...? / Do you like...? / Yes, I do - No, I dont. How many...? / How much...? / What is this...? / This is... / Sti... / Do you...? / Can you...? | ||||
How do we work on the learning of English?The learning of the second language is developed through activities and games, songs, stories, modeling, gestures and situations for the actual use of the language within the classroom and other spaces of learning. | |||||
What the child is going to develop gradually:
We mainly worked on the acquisition of motor skills, simple and complex, such as jumping, crawling, climbing, climb, throw, bounce, kick, etc, In this type of activity is predominant neuromuscular coordination requiring very little presence of the physical qualities, strength, endurance, and speed.
What the child is going to develop gradually:
Christian values and principles are emphasized in the different activities of the school day. Students are provided with special classes of Education Cristina. In the same, hear bible stories, fairy tales, songs and games valuing the christian principles in their actions. In addition, we offer the chaplain of the level that directs and accompanies the students and teachers in all the activities.