The Wonder of Learning

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Conijn, J. M., Rietdijk, W., Broekhof, E., Andre, L., & Schinkel, A. (2022). A theoretical framework and questionnaire for wonder-full education. Journal of Curriculum Studies , 54 (3), 423-444. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2020.1856648 Courage: Another one of the themes in 'Wonder' by R.J. Palacio is courage. There are lots of different forms of courage that are presented in the story. For example, Auggie shows the courage to try something out of his comfort zone and the courage to take a risk. The exhibition unfolds in six sections, with six nuclei or central themes around which twenty-three projects are shown and communicated using different media. 3D artefacts made by children, videos, paper materials, and audio recordings all allow for different levels of reading and deeper understanding. These classrooms are often spacious with lots of natural light. While colorful, the walls will usually not be heavily adorned as that can be distracting for young kids. Goddard schools embrace the limited use of technology to enhance learning, using tablets, digital games, and interactive whiteboards to make lessons fun and engaging.

You did this for my baby?” That’s what a parent said to Natacha Shillingford as she was setting up at the Reggio Emilia-inspired Epiphany Early Learning Center in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. That parent cried because “she could not believe that someone cared enough about her and her baby to want the best for them.” Kids have to think deeply about fairness,” Marina Boni, the Boston Public Schools early childhood mentor, said as she described Our Boston, a project in which the mayor writes to children and asks them to design projects that would make Boston fairer and more interesting to children. Montessori has a lot of supporters and a lot of critics, as well. Here are a few major pros and cons of the approach.Why? To encourage the child to keep drawing, because it’s by doing more drawing that a child gets to explore art and the horizons of his or her talent. We have already worked with over 400 primary school children in the UK, who have completed a 30-minute survey, called a ” wonder chart”, which asks them to respond to statements based around short stories or videos.

It’s not an easy concept to define. And yet research has shown that wonder is invaluable for learning: it increases students’ intrinsic motivation to actively pursue explanations, ask questions and reflect on new information; it widens their horizons and general interests; and it deepens their emotional engagement with the pursuit of knowledge.

This will really depend on your own opinion of how children interact with technology. But kids in Goddard preschool will have an opportunity to learn on technology like tablets and interactive whiteboards

Overall, here’s the difference between Montessori vs Goddard: Expect a more traditional and well-balanced educational approach at Goddard schools, with a mixture of arts, sciences, reading, math, and some limited use of technology. Based on their responses to the prompts, we then calculate a “wonder index”, which can be used as a quantitative measure of how much wonder the child is prone to experiencing. So far, we’ve found that children aged between 9 and 11 are particularly sensitive to experiencing wonder. No two Goddard schools are exactly alike, and neither are Montessori schools. You’ll have to look around at your local options carefully before you make a decision. You could say that in comparison to Montessori, Waldorf, and other systems, Goddard more closely resembles a traditional preschool.

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Montessori schools, while slowly opening up more and more to technology, do not include much screen time in their curriculum for younger children. A classroom in a Goddard toddler room or preschool should look pretty much how you’d expect one to look. Note: A lot of this really depends on your perspective! I might have something listed as a Pro that you feel is really a con. That’s totally your call, and I’m just trying to present good information.)