Curriculum

It is our mission to ensure that students can grow up independently and learn to manage their young life by themselves with our guidance and support. We do not teach them by making the children repeat or copy us just for the purpose of being a “good girl/good boy”. We want to educate them to understand why we need to follow certain procedures and rules in our life and why self-discipline is important. We do encourage our young learners to ask questions, and to be open and interested in new things. We want to open their mind for new cultures and friends. We do our best to let Eduwings students feel the joyfulness and passion of learning because learning is delightful.

Besides this mission, we care for each single student and support – not correct – each child´s character. We take care for the individual needs of each child by teaching them to act social and feel for other children and adults.

We respect the natural environment of each child. Instead of changing them, we want to offer as many as possible natural learning settings and opportunities for the social, physical and academic education. We trust our students, give them freedom to grow, make their own experiences and discover life.

During our “circles” and “learning tasks”, we encourage our students to concentrate and be focused, and show passion for the procedure and result. That way we educate confident and self-aware children.

We teach with real materials, in real settings and with different, custom-made teaching methods. As often as possible, we go on field trips and outings with the children and use their interests in topics to teach them all necessary skills to manage life before going to primary school.

We never punish our students, but we confront them under our guidance with the natural consequences which might happen in life.

We use the “Virtues” way to see every child as a seed: every child is born as a different seed, but all of them will be plants in the future. For us, it does not matter that the plants are different; we will give them all conditions to bring out the best of each seed to let it grow into a very meaningful and unique plant.

We are not THE BEST kindergarten; we hope to be the BEST CHOICE for your child.

We don´t have THE BEST philosophy as our philosophy is just matching for our children, and it is based on their needs.

Independence means active learning. Independence also means that children are good at making decisions on their own, and they are able to find solutions and solve problems independently. In our kindergarten the children will gain the freedom of their body and soul through developing their independence.

The environment of the kindergarten and the interaction in daily life also promote this development. Demonstrations from teachers and parents and educational instruction principles, and also guidance in daily life activities will also help them find their independence. Supporting the development of independence includes 3 aspects: self-serving competence, young children’s awareness of independence (mental independence), and competence to solve problems independently.

We provide children as much help as needed with the least help as possible to encourage them to try out their abilities, reach high self-esteem, trust and confidence. Our children will be guided to independently eat, go to the toilet, change clothes, do art crafts, clean themselves and their body (nose), draw, write, change shoes, clean up, clean the environment around them, solve conflicts, compromise, and do simple housework (mop after spilling water, clean the table, pour water, prepare food, toileting, set the table and more).

We guide the children to do it on their own by encouraging them verbally, and, if needed, show them how to do it, and overtake the “not possible” step for them until they can do it on their own.

We encourage our students to ask for help before we give them our helping hands, to let them feel the need of help and the independence to organize help by themselves. We organize the classroom, all areas in the school, and our activities in a way that children can do as much as possible by themselves by using their hands, their minds and making their own choices, e.g. by using picture labels, duty charts, children´s pictures, and by placing everything at kids´ height.

Children learn to be responsible for their actions by getting responsible tasks to fulfill and feel appreciated and proud of, e.g. planting plants, being the superstar and lining up the kids, setting the table, and serving drinks and food. Instead of any punishment, we encourage the children to make it good again after any behavior or failed action, and review by pointing out the natural consequences, e.g. breaking a book/toy and take it home to repair it, hurting another child and find something which can make them happy again, interrupting the class and then leave the class for a while to calm down.

Children learn that their minds are important and meaningful. Our teachers are interested in your child´s mind, and whenever a child asks us a question, we will first ask back, “What do you think?”. In that way, we encourage the child to build up their own thinking and ideas and feel proud of themselves.

We encourage our children to discuss with us instead of just obey, follow and copy our behavior. We truly believe that it is important for the children to really understand what they are doing, ask questions, and bring up arguments, if they are unclear about something. Like this we can educate intelligent and independent‑minded students.

If children struggle with a situation, or feel uncomfortable about it, we guide them to not just focus on the result, but the whole procedure of problem solving, and to keep asking them for their opinion and their feelings. We do not solve the problems for our students, but provide them with our help to let them solve it on their own to make them feel proud. We do not expect that kindergarten children can solve problems at an “adult” speed, and we are patient with all children.

We give our children the freedom to move as we never carry them. If children are sad, we give them a hug, but as long as their legs are not hurt, our children will walk by themselves so they always have the possibility to move their bodies. We will never use force to influence our students. Carrying a child means taking their freedom away to move freely.

For the development of self-independence, uniformity is very important. We do wish to get your full cooperation to let the children grow up independently and follow our curriculum at home.