Live Education

Thoughts cannot be separated from feelings, and neither can be the mind separated from the body.   Live education, or a feeling brain. Live education is a program of classes implementing the assumptions of sensory integration, supporting the memorizing and learning process, and developing mental tools. The program aims at activating memory structures by: determining and directing movement; the use of sound (music, rhythm); acquisition of knowledge. It takes into consideration the capabilities of the child’s motorics and physiological needs of the body (providing for differentiation of the exercises for different age groups), as well as the social development of children (e.g. execution of graphic works together with colleagues). For six-year-olds and schoolchildren, these are first of all alternating graphic exercises accompanied by music and therapeutic balls, which replace traditional chairs. Live education presents techniques and methods taking into consideration Dr Paul Dennison’s educational kinesiology and destined for work with children on the elementary education level. The program is aimed at developing a holistic conception of a human’s development, and develops the skills of constructing real integrated classes. Live education is based on the contemporary body of scientific work by neurobiologists, psychologists and therapists, as well as on practical pedagogical experiences. It respects the foundations and the latest research on the functioning of brain and its influence on the body’s learning processes. A teacher working with the Live Education program can: - examine the child’s dominant profile - plan classes taking into consideration the dominant profiles of the children’s in the class - activate the children to work and involve them emotionally - create an optimum state for knowledge acquisition and building - maintain the discipline during the classes in a natural way - make use of the natural potential of each child to make it feel important (become a real subject in the education) - motivate the pupils to complete their tasks The live education program aims first of all at: 1. through the introduction of therapeutic balls: - development of the eye and movement coordination in children - conscious  development of the body’s spatial awareness (formation of proprioception) - development of the concentration and attention skills, - externalizing the need for movement in a natural way - arranging didactic situations associated with pleasure and joy for each child - motivating the child to work - maintaining the correct bodily position 2. through the introduction of active exercises related to a kinesiological education system, music and movement: - creating the ambience of feeling secure - creating conditions for work according to specific procedures, which allows the children with dominant gestalt hemisphere to develop the logical hemisphere and achieve success - determination of aims of the executed tasks which are attractive for children, but different from those assumed by the teacher (the teacher pursues didactic aims, the child satisfies its needs) - development of the ability to communicate with another human being – arranging situations for: communicating in a team, negotiating, reaching compromises - controlling emotions and feelings of children with domination of the gestalt hemisphere, and development of the gestalt hemisphere in children with domination of the logical hemisphere - arranging didactic situations which are important in view of  poly-sensory learning.

 

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