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【8 Basic Student Needs (2)】- Every student needs inspiring models and modelling
Models offer ideas, can act as scaffolding, illuminate possibility, provide a pathway, and give students something to anchor their thinking to when everything else seems abstract and academic.
According to the research, most of the students can construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world effectively and efficiency, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. When we encounter something new, we have to reconcile it with our previous ideas and experience, maybe changing what we believe, or maybe discarding the new information as irrelevant. In order to do this, we need a learning model to facilitate and guide us for asking questions, exploration and assessing what we know. With the complete and holistic learning model under constructivist learning theory, students are active creators of their own knowledge.
The experiential education tour with the application of Life Laboratory concept is more focus on stimulate and motivating the learners to makes discoveries and experiment with knowledge themselves. During the process of program development, It is well concretely interact the knowledge and application through the unique and completed learning and teaching model. With this, all the education tour program can stimulate the learners to reflect their experience in order to develop new ideas, new thinking, new skills and new attitudes. Thus, the Experiential Educational Tour is the Living Application Mode of Constructivism.

【8 Basic Student Needs (1)】

Personalising education involves a highly structured approach that places the needs, interest and learning styles of the students at the centre.

Every student is different but what does very single student need? How can we develop and design the curriculum, framework, instructional strategies, program and other educational mode that touch the mind of every students?

✴1. Every student needs self-knowledge
“Who am I and how can I relate the things I learn to the world?” It is the common question asked by every students. In the beginning stage of learning process, each student must has the knowledge or understanding of one’s own capabilities, character, feeling or motivation. Through self-knowledge. Students are more able to understand the outer physical universal as well as the inner metaphysical world within us.

Life Laboratory Education Concept and Model applied the Reggio Emillia philosophy where:
• Children must have some control over the direction of their learning
• Children must be able to learn through experience of collective sensory effect
• Children have a relationship with other children and with material items in the world that must be allowed to explore.

Implementation of Reggio Emillia approach in early childhood and primary education enable children to construct their own learning. They are driven by their interest to understanding and know more in the learning process. Furthermore, it enable children to form an understanding of themselves and their place in the world through their interaction with other.

[Explore the Personalised Education]
- Personal Development in Early Stage of Life

Age 1, 2 & 3,
new experiences in the life, just explore it!

Age 4, 5 & 6,
basic learning idea, let identify and know it!

Age 7, 8 & 9,
concept of learning, listen and ask while thinking!

Age Below 12,
problem solving, analyse and proof then turn it!

Before Age 18,
wider view point, filter before accept and practice it!

After Age 18,
goal of life, clear before fix and act it!

Personal Development in line with the needs of growth, will build the strong foundation progressively!

S.K Wong
Education Consultant

“Is Early Childhood Education = Early Personal Development?”

In the early of September, a group of parents and educators discussed the “Real Meaning of Early Childhood Education” in MPE Forum.
Overview the on-line and off-line sharing, a lot of the participants viewed that Malaysia government and society need to deeply evaluate the position and implementation of Early Personal Development in Early Childhood Education. Some of the participants proposed that early childhood education should be personalized education, where the curriculum and co-curriculum are based on the children growth needs and their characters. They viewed that personalized education enable children to be self-motivated and to become excellent persons.
On the review of first theme discussion, the participants addressed the following questions:
1. What are the aims and values of early childhood education?
2. Have the Malaysia early childhood education move towards a holistic, child center system and aiming to cater for the individual’s diverse needs regardless of ability or social background
According to the education philosophy of Montessori, education should not be only concerned with a child’s academic performance, but should also cater for his social, emotional and physical development.
Since 20th century, child-center philosophy was strongly manifested in most of the developed country especially Finland. In order to help children to fit for a society marked by rapid and far-reaching economic and social change, early childhood education should:
1. Concern and care the diversify needs of children, including the skill development and character building;
2. Emphasis the holistic and rounded development of the individual;
3. Execute and manifest the collective impact of Total Sensory Learning
4. Advocate and highlight the integration of school, home and social education;
In summary, the aims, values and purposes of early childhood education were being influenced by demands for the humanization of education, and by philosophies encouraging the adaptation of education to the needs of the individual child, and the needs of the individual child in society. In 21st century, there are increasing number of developed country such as Finland, England, Sweden and other developing country to move toward child-center education and emphasis the humanist values in the education development.

S.K Wong
Education Consultant
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Top 10 Reasons FINLAND Has the World’s Best SCHOOL SYSTEM

Top 10 Reasons FINLAND Has the World’s Best SCHOOL SYSTEM While it is almost impossible to say a single nation’s schools are the best in the world, one country that consistently performs extremely well on the Progra...

Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind.

✴AUTONOMOUS, the Key Factor in the learning and developing process of children.✴

The Autonomous Learner,
🎖able to self-determine the goals and direction of growth, in order to achieve sustainable self-development.
🎖 able to self-explore and practice, in order to actively stimulate the inner potential.
🎖able to self-control the learning progress and scope, in order to effectively improve the personal growth

Parents and teachers are keen to see the self-learning ability of children are alived sustainabity by themselves and not stimulated simutaunously by others.

[Savor the Wisdom of Personalised Education]
- Autonomy Learner (3)

S.K Wong
Education Consultant

"What are the benefits of using THEMATIC APPROACH with Kindergarden students?"

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[CREATIVE THEMATIC UNITS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION]

THEMATIC LEARNING INTEGRATED is learning that can Instill Basic Concepts of Knowledge,
to Increase Knowledge of Facts and
Can Improve Interesting Learning because the theme is a
THEME that is VERY CLOSE to CHILD, SIMPLE, ATTRACTIVE and INCIDENTAL!

For further information about the THEMATIC LEARNING in Roots and Wings, please contact S.K Wong / mS. nASIM/ Ms. Wan Azlinda:
office: 03-23894288
h/p: 017-8899511 / 014-9897960
email: [email protected]

“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.” –Thomas Berry

Why to be autonomous learner?

Be an autonomous learner, he/she will takes responsibility for his/her own learning.

In doing this,
☀ they can identify:
✅ their learning goals
✅ their learning process
✅ their evaluation mode and application
☀ they have well-founded conceptions of learning
☀ they have a range of learning approach and skill
☀ they can organize their learning
☀ they are well motivated to learn

S.K Wong
Education Consultant

♥What is Autonomous Education?♥

Kember (1997) refers to autonomous learning as student-centered learning, shifting the focus of education from teaching to learning.

🏅 It is initiative learning oriented education which knowledge grow because of the intrinsic motivation of the individual.

🏅 Children will acquire the skills they need to take advantage of their environment and pursue their own aspiration

🏅 The learning environment provides opportunities to take control of their learning.

🏅 Autonomous learning approach involves many of the elements required for effective learning, such as first-hand experience, maintained interest, decision making, choice, practical and physical activity.

S.K Wong
Education Consultant