ACADEMICS
Imagine an IDEAL school where the entire professional team is applying current brain research to every aspect of the learning experience to optimize student joy, engagement, memory, and understanding. A school that focuses on students being mindful and motivated to creatively demonstrate knowledge and true understanding of challenging, relevant information. Show what you know! Imagine an IDEAL school where students excel in emotional (EQ) and cognitive (IQ) skills and are innovation ready to be accepted to the best high schools and universities in the nation.
HOW WE TEACH
IDEAL School's brain-based and Multiple Intelligence philosophies and practices deliver effective and innovative strategies beyond the basic curriculum for the gifted learner. Our curriculum is designed to challenge and empower students to produce quality work and to become productive citizens, while protecting and nurturing their unique characteristics.
IDEAL School provides a supportive and stimulating environment where students use sophisticated forms of thinking that include generalizing, reasoning, predicting, classifying, comparing and contrast in order to seek evidence to support a hypothesis or idea. It is our goal at IDEAL School to teach for understanding (not just test scores). The professional teaching team will achieve this goal by:
MODELING
The teacher will provide knowledge or insight by presenting a multiple intelligence lesson (relevant to students). The teacher will lead the learning process in an attempt to meet predetermined goals and academic objectives.
INQUIRY
The teacher will guide the students to solve a relevant problem by asking questions, investigating methods, and discussing cause and effect relationships.
COLLABORATION
The teacher will facilitate meaningful discussions and active problem-solving to gain understanding of a given topic.
OUR CURRICULUM
IDEAL School's comprehensive and challenging curriculum prepares children for success in their future academic endeavors. In addition to the Core Subjects of Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, the IDEAL curriculum includes enriching co-curriculars such as Spanish, Heart to Heart (Emotional Intelligence), Physical Education, Chorus, Fine Arts, Theater Arts, Dance, Coding/Robotics, Leadership, Networking for Success and Computer Technology.
In addition to skill-based academic learning and assessment, opportunities for collaboration, hands-on discovery, global awareness and social justice, service, and reflection are integrated throughout the curriculum. Our intentional focus on both cognitive and emotional intelligence sets the IDEAL School experience apart.
AUTHENTIC LEARNING
From Preschool through graduation, each child is guided to identify and understand his/her personal learning style and its strengths. Regular written assignments and tests are reinforced by Projects, Exhibitions and Presentations, which give teachers and parents a more comprehensive picture of what a child actually understands, and provides a rich academic experience that includes – and extends beyond – the completion of a test or recalling facts from memory.
The IDEAL School is the perfect school for the “gifted” learner. Students are grouped by ability to optimize their learning experience. During core subjects students may even move up a grade level based on their academic performance. We recognize some students have mastered grade-level benchmarks and need to be provided with other opportunities to reach their cognitive potential.
