Key ideas in New World Kids at School
Friday, May 15, 2009 at 3:49PM 
As promised, here's the introductory text and a few excerpts from our new teachers' guide to New World Kids. We hope this will inspire you to purchase both books, for yourself or a teacher in your life. From Dr. Cynthia Herbert.
New World Kids is an educational approach based on decades of applied research with young
people of all ages, and supported by current brain research and cognitive studies. The approach is
compatible with the theory of multiple intelligences and the tenets of differentiated instruction.
Programs based on this approach are founded on specific beliefs and meet specific criteria:
• Learning should be learner-centered. In education, the development of individual potential
should be foremost, rather than the imposition of a body of knowledge. This emphasis will
also lead to deeper and more sustained learning across the curriculum.
• Creativity is "basic." Perhaps even more important than the three R's is the ability to create a
meaningful life and deal with an unknown future. Creative thinking is not just the domain of
an elite group, but can be developed and nurtured in all young people
• The Sensory Alphabet provides a powerful language for learning. Even in a digital age,
external information still comes into the human mind through the senses. This alphabet
provides a way to characterize both individual creative strengths as well as the forms that
result from creative thinking.
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