Calabasas Learning Center GROUP 3

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  1. sure.
  2. Hello everybody. This is Jonathan speaking on behalf of Vanessa Jonathan myself.
  3. Um Sarah Marcello Catherine and Sarah
  4. and today I'm going to be giving you our pitch for the calabasas learning center.
  5. It's going to be a Waldorf Riri inspired K through second grade learning Center.
  6. Our mission statement.
  7. We will fuse the philosophies of Waldorf schools and paolo Ferrari
  8. um particularly his right, his book,
  9. The pedagogy of the Oppressed and Arcade through
  10. second grade Learning Center will foster a warm and inviting environment
  11. through communication and reflection.
  12. We will promote inclusivity and diversity.
  13. The environment of our classrooms will be
  14. aligned with the aesthetic of Waldorf schools.
  15. The walls will be painted in muted tones
  16. using natural materials materials whenever possible.
  17. Soft fabrics and warm lighting that can help create a creative calming
  18. space
  19. in terms of assessments and instruction,
  20. our curriculum will focus on dialogue
  21. and which
  22. sort of ties into
  23. frayer ease
  24. uh
  25. approach to pedagogy is very dia
  26. logical processes which engage students and teachers
  27. and in terms of assessments will focus heavily
  28. on portfolios because they give students agency to um
  29. kind of assemble their own work, curate their own
  30. work and have a creative role in their own assessment.
  31. Students will create their own textbooks called main
  32. lesson books and these will be filled with art
  33. and writing which serve as records of what
  34. they have experienced in class and some examples of
  35. the lesson books here that Waldorf students have made. Here we go.
  36. You can see they're using art and very
  37. colorful approaches to creating their own textbooks.
  38. Um
  39. Okay, and then here are some examples of classroom aesthetics
  40. that we've seen in Waldorf schools that we
  41. would like to incorporate in our curriculum.
  42. Yeah,
  43. okay, going back here um
  44. for activities, Children will
  45. take part in rhythmic activities singing, cooking, handwork
  46. such as molding, beeswax, finger knitting,
  47. felt ng
  48. playing recorders. So um
  49. the idea here is just that
  50. trying to um
  51. stimulate as many
  52. sort of sense as much sensory stimulation
  53. as possible, so you know, to as a form of almost differentiation for students
  54. and the rhythmic musical rhythmic approach kind
  55. of gives students this like steady beat
  56. through through their day,
  57. but also kind of creates an improvisational sort of lightheartedness as well.
  58. And um
  59. what I like about this
  60. focus on hand work as it creates, gives like a tactile kind of
  61. approach to education. And I just want to show a quick video.
  62. It gives a nice example of
  63. this tactile approach here.
  64. If this will play.
  65. What's that playing?
  66. Okay,
  67. stop playing. Okay,
  68. well, it's a, it's a video of a felt art piece and it's just extremely tactile. And
  69. anyway,
  70. you can,
  71. we'll send the link around, you guys can check that video out.
  72. Okay, moving on to the role of the teacher,
  73. teachers play a performance role in the classroom.
  74. Typically in Waldorf type schools
  75. as they model and are sort of moral leaders for the classroom
  76. and they construct and guide whole
  77. group activities that encourage investigative creative learning
  78. and um this is also tied into freris approach as
  79. well in the sense that teachers are supposed to be,
  80. he believes
  81. learners of their students.
  82. Um So there's sort of a reciprocal relationship almost
  83. like a symbiosis between the teachers and the students.
  84. So we really want to
  85. incorporate that into our curriculum.
  86. Mm
  87. And teachers create lessons and activities encouraging enthusiastic learning,
  88. self esteem and social responsibility.
  89. So we really want to positively reinforce our students as
  90. much as possible and at the same time gearing them
  91. towards
  92. life outside of school and imbuing them with a sense of social responsibility. So
  93. that is our pitch today for you.
  94. Um We really hope you consider our curriculum and we think it's a
  95. a great opportunity to
  96. um focus on collaboration and communication and creativity as
  97. central ideas to our curriculum and to creating encouraging
  98. um holistic
  99. Educational opportunities for our K through 2nd grade students.
  100. Thank you so much. Take care