Presentation of the centre of creative learning

• This is the short version of the original presentation.

• The photographs of the children in action are not included for privacy reasons.

• Sterksel, 2 march 2005.

• Albert Kaput

Welcome in Sterksel

To relax

To wish

To imagine

To believeTo appreciate

To receive To express

To persevere

To examine

to act

To decide

To Plan

Center of Creative Learning

2000 - 2005

© M. Knoope creatiespiraal

Welcome

I.Q. 55 70 85 100 115 120 130 145 154

Positioning our children related to normal

The nunnery in winter (backside)

Organization

Foundation Center for Creative Learning

Center for practice“Gaaf” (cool)

Center for care Center for knowledge

Organization model

Core activity is:-Care and guidance of gifted children who have failed in traditional education

by-A core team

-Supported by an interim management team

-Backed up by the board of the foundation

-In a joint Nomadic quest by a learning community

Nomadic quest board of the

Foundation

Nomadic quest

Interim management

Interim management

Children

Team 1 Team 2

Team 4 Team 3

Prof. advisors

Prof. advisors

Representatives of the teams

board of the Foundation

core team

Figures year 2004 - 2005

• Associates - 36• Trainees - 5• Children guided internal - 48• Children guided external - 5• Independent living program - 5

What are we doing?• We are providing a suitable environment

for individual development with enough room to:

• experience how to get on with others• find out how others are getting on with you• develop your ideas and put them into practice • go beyond boundaries and to learn from this• do things together• …………

What else are we doing?

• We are teaching our children how to manage in our society.

• We are teaching them to get to know themselves.

• We are offering them help in cognitive self- development.

• We are teaching them how to have confidence in themselves and others.

• We are teaching them to respect themselves and others.

Phase

Care

EducationRecovery Growth Integration

We are happy with:

• each smile

• each sign of recognition

• each step that is taken

• each conscious choice

• each feeling of (self)-esteem

• each cheerful goodbye of a child that enters society with confidence

What are our future challenges?

• Finding permanent funds to be able to continue.

• Receiving recognition from the government

• Expanding the network of people who are supportive in helping the children to integrate.

• Being able to describe the things that we are learning from the process.

Most common daily activities• Playing computer games• Playing live role games• Drawing, painting, designing• Debating, reading, working at study• Dancing, playing music, writing songs, singing• Constructing, working with tools• Having fun with each other, playing• Lots of thinking and talking

To relax

To wish

To imagine

To believeTo appreciate

To receiveTo express

To persevere

To examine

To act

To decide

To plan

Center of Creative Learning

2000 - 2005

© M. Knoope creatiespiraal

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