INSPIRATION
Looking for new ideas? You've come to the right place. Inspirations comes from all places, but first you need to know where to look. Our class structure ensure nice balance between theoretical learning and hands-on practice, all carefully aligned with topics familiar to our children. They are encouraged to try things differently and have a go on their own solutions. Before you can think outside of box, you have to know where the box is.
“Children must be taught HOW TO THINK, not WHAT TO THINK.”
CORRESPONDING TO MBC'S UNIT OF INQUIRY
Being privileged to collaborate with MBC PYP program, we emphasise on structuring our program corresponding to school’s Unit of Inquiry for each term. Our promise is to align teaching materials with the unit of inquiry naturally, and reinforce students’ school learning, with the opportunity to explore a wider application of their new knowledge. For example, we use Sphero (little robotic ball with codable commands) to navigate through pads with different scores, hence to practise their addition and subtraction calculations.
COMBINATION OF DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL WORLD
Arguably one of the most concerns for young children in digital era is the deprivation of interaction with real world, and we totally agree on this. Therefore, we developed our teaching model as ‘concept in digital, application in real’. Software inevitably are intangible lines of codes, however, by putting them into instructions of physical moving objects, student can easily get the idea of how their codes get executed in the physical world, and hence making tangible impact on their surrounding environment.
PROBLEM SOLVING FOCUS
At KiKidCo our emphasis is on student’s own thinking in solving problems and the integration of knowledge across different subjects. Solely performance on specific type of questions/problems is not our focus. We incorporate our problem solving training into hands-on activities that require spatial awareness (i.e. coordinates and directions), geometry concepts (shapes, 3D objects), and various logical thinking skills (sorting/sequencing, pattern recognition, comparisons, and conditional operations). By successfully completing each week’s task, students did not just fulfil a designated homework, but they expand their toolset for solving wider range of future problems.