Personalized Learning
We believe that every child is created in the image of God and can excel. Personalized learning is a system that starts with the assumption that each student has his or her own individual passions, interests, needs, learning pace and learning style. To allow each child to excel, goals are created for each student, based on skills, Habits of Mind, and content. The Common Core Standards is the language through which these goals are expressed. Within this system, students work toward mastery. While students work at their own pace, developmentally appropriate milestones mark each student’s progress.
KSA provides a safe, supportive, and stimulating environment for learning, where adults and children work together in mutual trust and respect. It is a place where we foster in children self esteem, independence, and a better understanding of themselves and others through teaching skills and habits of mind like persistence, precision, innovation and thinking flexibly.
Each student has personalized goals that are categorized into five cross-curricular focus areas: Communication (reading, writing, speaking, listening); Empirical reasoning; Quantitative reasoning; Social reasoning and Personal reasoning. These focus areas recognize that a student’s success in becoming a problem solver and citizen of the world stems from both skills and habits of mind. They also take into consideration the fact that each child has a unique approach, pace, and style of learning.
Each student is evaluated in terms of his or her own growth and development in relation to his or her personal goals, as well as according to developmentally appropriate goals and objectives as set forth in the National Common Core Standards.
To help students achieve these goals, traditional teaching styles and practices are complemented by innovative and experiential learning; bringing the real world into the classroom.
The work toward achieving these goals is a collaborative effort of the teachers, advisors, parents and students.
At KSA we believe that each and every student can excel with the appropriate teaching environment and support. Each kehillah (learning community) has a dedicated student support specialist with a degree in special education.
These specialist also serve as subject teachers in their kehillah and make up our student support team. Together, these teachers work as a team to modify curriculum and teaching practices, train inclusion specialists and ensure that school-wide and personalized goals are tracked and achieved. As full time members of our staff, our student support specialists provide all teachers with tools to become more versatile in their teaching.
KSA provides a safe, supportive, and stimulating environment for learning, where adults and children work together in mutual trust and respect. It is a place where we foster in children self esteem, independence, and a better understanding of themselves and others through teaching skills and habits of mind like persistence, precision, innovation and thinking flexibly.
Each student has personalized goals that are categorized into five cross-curricular focus areas: Communication (reading, writing, speaking, listening); Empirical reasoning; Quantitative reasoning; Social reasoning and Personal reasoning. These focus areas recognize that a student’s success in becoming a problem solver and citizen of the world stems from both skills and habits of mind. They also take into consideration the fact that each child has a unique approach, pace, and style of learning.
Each student is evaluated in terms of his or her own growth and development in relation to his or her personal goals, as well as according to developmentally appropriate goals and objectives as set forth in the National Common Core Standards.
To help students achieve these goals, traditional teaching styles and practices are complemented by innovative and experiential learning; bringing the real world into the classroom.
The work toward achieving these goals is a collaborative effort of the teachers, advisors, parents and students.
At KSA we believe that each and every student can excel with the appropriate teaching environment and support. Each kehillah (learning community) has a dedicated student support specialist with a degree in special education.
These specialist also serve as subject teachers in their kehillah and make up our student support team. Together, these teachers work as a team to modify curriculum and teaching practices, train inclusion specialists and ensure that school-wide and personalized goals are tracked and achieved. As full time members of our staff, our student support specialists provide all teachers with tools to become more versatile in their teaching.
