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Rose Scharlin Co-Operative Nursery School provides a stimulating and formative preschool experience for 20 to 30 families, along with parent education presentations.
Our program principle is Emergent in practice and based on a Constructivist Theory of education.
Constructivism's central idea is that human learning is constructed, that learners build new knowledge upon the foundation of previous learning. This prior knowledge influences what new or modified knowledge an individual will construct from new learning experiences. Constructivists concentrate on how children derive the concepts through which they make sense of the world, with a concentration on real-life experience (e.g., teaching about recycling by bringing the children to a recycling center).
Within Constructivism is the Scaffolding of support used to guide children while learning. The term Scaffolding is used to define varying levels of support. These supports are gradually removed as students develop autonomous learning strategies, thus promoting their own cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning skills and knowledge.
