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The Birth of Interactive Learning Playschool

Today I officially launch the Interactive Learning Playschool. It is our homeschool where children can actively learn through a personalized curriculum specifically designed to each individual in order to achieve an optimum learning experience.

The Interactive Learning Playschool is created as a result my unceasing frustration over my daughter's soon to be previous school. After a year and a half of tolerating their inappropriate practices and inconsiderate approach towards the students and parents as well, I have come to realize that they are not suitable to handle the responsibility of my daughter's  holistic education. Thus, the Interactive Learning Playschool is created to resolve the existing issues given below:

1. Failure to recognize and respect ones developmental capacity resulting to  under or over expectation.
2. Inability to be flexible to adapt to ones individual learning style.

3. Unprofessionalism of key personnel including teachers and staff administration.

4. Failure to recognize the parent's role in the cognitive development of the child

5. Failure to respect the parent's predispositions with respect to the child.

6. Unable to have a personalized approach to each individual.

The Interactive Learning Playschool, although primarily intended for our own children's needs, is open to everyone and anyone who shares the same sympathies and concerns. Since we emphasize personalization and individualization, the curriculum can be modified to the specific needs of any individual.

The Interactive Learning Playschool aims to provide a well rounded learning experience with the aid of the parents.

In Interactive Learning Playschool, the individuality of the learner is recognized. Adaptation and matching of an appropriate curriculum is guided by the following principles that we observe:

1. Learning is personalized, respecting ones learning style, pace, inclinations and natural tendencies, one that is not possible in the conventional school setting.

2. We believe that learning should be fun in order to stimulate a child's continuous desire for knowledge, something that is diminishing as a child moves up to a higher level in school.

3. Play is a recognized source of learning, thus the name Playschool. Children don't just "learn to play, but play to learn".

4. Learning is multi-dimensional. Meaning, learning is not only written, spoken and read but also internalized, practiced and owned. The acquisition of learning does not stop with the passing of a grade but rather the initiation of the integration of knowledge into ones life.
5. Learning is multi-faceted. Learning should cater to the different aspects of a person, which include cognitive, social,  physical, religious and psychological. Learning should tap into ones multiple  intelligence, such as: , musical, linguistic, inter- and intrapersonal, logical, spatial and bodily kinesthetic.

It should be noted that even though stress is given to the individualization of the curriculum, Interactive Learning Playschool conforms to the basic education curriculum given by the DepEd. What is altered in the curriculum is the presentation of ideas, methods of teaching and pacing of the lessons. Extra-curriculars are dependent on the individual, in which his or her own interest is to be considered. The curriculum is made to fit the individual and not vice versa since the focus is on the learning process for an individual and not just learning to fit the timeframe. It is then assured that at the end of the year (note that this refers to the year level and not the 10-month school year timeframe since individual pacing is considered), each student has the capability to pass the standards set by the DepEd for each grade level.

The Interactive Learning Playschool makes use of Center for Measurement Testing, which is an independent testing facility for a standardized method of assessment.