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Educational Principles
Our classes and programmes are based on the following principles:
Learning is most effective in classes small enough to allow for individual monitoring and teaching.
Progress is most effective if students are grouped into classes which contain a small range of ability levels. There must still be some restriction on the age range so that material presented is relevant to the maturity levels of all individuals.
Teachers and programmers who hold high expectations for their students will generally find that the children will rise to meet those expectations.
Efficient and quality teaching can best be achieved from the common use of programmes prepared by experts who have far greater time and resources at their disposal. This allows teachers to focus fully on the effective presentation of the lesson. |
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Programmers and teachers should be constantly aware of the importance of making learning interesting and enjoyable. Students should want to learn, not for the pleasures of examination marks nor for some extrinsic reward or parental satisfaction, but for the self-fulfilment that learning brings.
The teachers and the programmers must appreciate the value of students as well-informed citizens with their own well-developed opinions on issues and with an understanding of the importance of tolerance of the views of others.
Classes should use a variety of teaching approaches - instruction, discussion, discovery, debate and the use of hands-on material (which helps bridge the link between pen and paper activities and real-life problems). Both competitive and co-operative approaches should be used for individual and group work.
Intelligent students should not be taught in a robotic, repetitive, "death-by-worksheet" fashion. They thrive, instead, on activities which exercise the higher levels of thinking.
Intelligent students should be provided with extension and enrichment activities rather than an opportunity to accelerate through a standard curriculum.
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