Austin, TX
Elsass Academy (Twin Oaks)

General Approach to Learning

	Play-based
	Play-based with some structure
	Predominantly teacher-led instruction
	Montessori
	Waldorf
	Co-op
	Reggio-Emilia

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Savvy Source's Comments

As Early Childhood professionals we realize a child learns and retains knowledge he\she has initiated the desire to learn. We also know and believe a young child learns through play. Play is the child's work. As a child expresses ideas and feelings in dramatic play, runs, jumps and climbs on the playground, creates in the art room, and builds a tower with the blocks, he\she is working. The child is learning.

Through DAP (Developmentally Appropriate Practice) educators have learned the process is more important and valuable than the product. Through play the child interacts with his environment, relates new concepts to familiar, makes his/her own deductions, hypotheses' and experiments, and finally assimilates knowledge to his\her being. Thus, play is the process for the child. This understanding of how children learn provides the basic premise for the Elsass Academy Twin Oaks Developmentally Appropriate Emergent Curriculum

Social Skills & Work Habits

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Curriculum and Teaching Approach

OVERALL RATING (5.0)
This school has increased my child's:

	PLAY-BASED	PLAY-BASED WITH SOME STRUCTURE	MOSTLY TEACHER LED	NOT FORMALLY IN CURRICULUM	CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT
Language					Yes
Oral language	-		-	-	n/a
Nursery rhymes, poems, songs	-		-	-	n/a
Storybook reading	-		-	-	n/a
Emerging literacy skills	-		-	-	n/a
Cognitive Development					n/a
Math and number sense	-		-	-	Yes
Time & space	-		-	-	Yes
Sci. reasoning/physical world	-		-	-	Yes
Music	-		-	-	Yes
Visual arts	-		-	-	Yes
Physical activity	-		-	-	Yes
Other subjects taught	Swimming Gymnastics				n/a

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