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Introduction to Intuitive Learning contrasted with other methods and educational philosophies:
- History of Intuitive Learning as taken from ancient tried and true methodologies
- Unique combination of methodologies
- Looping
- Thematic block scheduling
- Child-centered
- Natural learning environments
- Developmentally appropriate
- Good hydration
- Brain-based learning
- Teaching to the multiple intelligences – twelve senses
- A new psychology of the human
- Creative arts focus
- Performance oriented
- Arts enhanced
- Music as a powerful educational tool
- Play-based kindergarten
- Timed to the seasons
- Multi-cultural
- Multi-language fluency
- Character development
- Early intellectualism versus developmentally appropriate
The rhythm of the day:
- Greeting at the door
- Bell-work
- Circle activities-brain-based kinesthetic activities
- The whole body as learner
- The need for strong rhythm as healthy breathing
- How to select teaching materials
Classroom environment and the role of the teacher:
- Dress
- Speech, gesture, tone, mood
- Natural substances in the classroom
- The teacher brings the “whole world” to the child to takes them out to it (field trips)
- Loving authority
- Modulating tone of instruction
- Creating a mood in the classroom
The approach to academics:
- A balance of arts and academics
- Art enhances academic performance
- Learning is experience-based modeling
- Students model the learning of the teacher
- From the whole to the parts in all lessons
- Developing capacities for learning and not just memorizing
- Mind-mapping as a natural way to remember
- Storytelling, retelling, reciting
- Daily assessment and feedback through oral recitation, mental math, retelling and performance
- Hands, Heart, Head – the order of instruction
The importance of handwork and art according to brain research:
- Research on enhanced neurological activity stimulated by handwork
- Math, reading, geometry and spatial relationships developed by handwork
- Educational kinesiology and the development of muscles as learning centers
- The triune brain theory
- Connecting the left and right sides of the brain for optimal learning
- Art as a force that enhances the affective domain
- Connecting thinking, feeling and willing with art
Singing and music in the curriculum:
- Why singing strengthens academics
- Modern research on music’s ability to enhance academics
- Sing throughout the day
- Pentatonic scales, rounds, four part harmony
Blackboard drawing, illustrating, and painting:
- Research that backs up art as academic enhancement
- Why should the teacher use the blackboard
- Creating main lesson books from blank books
- Border designs and page layout
- The Main Lesson book as a textbook
- Why does color enhance memory
Form Drawing as a subject:
- Form Drawing as basic geometry
- Writing as form drawing
- Ribbon forms and their use
- Use of symbols as art
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