Creative foundations for Literacy and Numeracy:-

• A rich multi-sensory resource of games, activities and creative incentives.

• Didactic resources designed to facilitate ‘Discovery Learning’.

• Scaffolding self-directed and self-correcting approaches to learning.

 

The rich sensory compendium of activities, games and interactive learning materials is designed to enhance: exploration and creative expression. The priority on creative expression encourages: reception and expression of aesthetic appreciation, self-directed focus and mastery of conceptual understanding.Eastwood Education uses creative activity, sensory integration and social interaction as natural catalysts to support authentic communication and enhanced participation.

 

Eastwood Education

Multi-sensory foundations for:-

Literacy skills: language enrichment, handwriting, spelling and creative writing.

Numeracy skills: number values, the base ten system and multiplication tables.

Geometry and algebra: expanding mathematical skills through investigation and conceptual understanding.

Art and design: basic 3d and 2D integration through a progressive curriculum of sensory exploration and spontaneous creative expression.

The resources are suitable for children of all ages and ability (from seven years and over). Interactive participation can creatively accommodate spontaneous enthusiasm and erratic participation. Adult supervision can organically facilitate younger participants to join in appropriately at their own level of ability. Adults can also enjoy the games as a rewarding challenge for themselves while successfully accommodating younger, often more creative, participants.

[Helena offers interactive courses in all of the above areas of learning, private tutoring, educational assessments and consultancy. The courses include Computer Data for Teaching Materials that can be produced with the aid of a laminator and designs for the production of the 3D learning materials using commercially available wooden blocks and wooden letters.]

Contact details: Natural education Centre : 07792193995  Unit 12A, Henllan Industrial, SA44 5TE

Eastwood Education is not presented as a curriculum as such. It illustrates how learning can be presented within a mind map that creates its own presentation of human intelligence alongside of a celebration of aesthetic appreciation and natural enthusiasm. Creativity and co-operative interaction are the foundations of multisensory learning. Multisensory integration, through the heart and soul-spirit, creates a depth and richness to our interaction with the world. Thus, when multi-sensory information is framed within creative freedom and passionate interaction, learning can be experienced as personal discovery and thereby provide an infinite future potential for meaningful expansion.

Creativity, multisensory learning, aesthetic appreciation and divergent thinking plus some heart magic, are born when ideas, feelings and experiences flow togerther like the water within a stream; where an infinite freedom is contanined within the boundaryies of the geographical terain and the earthly laws of physics.

The true art of teaching is to creatively present multisensory information through an integrated spectrum of accurate conceptual communication. The true master can successfully support others to discover for themselves: attention to small detail, authentic passion and genuine understanding. The apprentice thereby learns, over a period of time, to achieve what the master can already do with natural ease and uses these skills to develop his/her own natural field of excellence.

Scaffolding learning from a multisensory perspective comes from the heart. From this sweet place activities and feelings embrace a natural balance of mental and physical activity. A harmonious combination of both musical and structural aspects of creativity that organically integrates imagination with a tangible expression of creative interaction. This supports our natural desire to gain conscious awareness and understanding.

Adults can provide a harmonizing balance of care and encouragement in the form of:-

• Personal interaction : Compassion

Boundaries

Authenticity

• A safe physical environment with freedom to : Explore

Experiment

Creatively manipulate environmental resources

• A socially interactive environment whereby free play, creativity and child-directed learning are positively supported through : –

Sharing and caring

Reflective and complimentary interaction

Independent and co-operative play.

Whereby: The Keys to Empowerment are fully maintained and each individual’s learning potential is acknowledged as:-

Knowledge – subject to Personal Experience,

Choice – as fundamental to every individual,

Authentic creativity – as essential to natural play and learning,

Compassionate understanding – felt through co-operative sharing.

Trust, gratitude and appreciation embraced within a positive attitude.

Working on small easy steps and simple steady improvements can anchor our efforts to seed new growth within the harmony of Highest Good and our individual capacity to live, love and learn together. Simple structures of communication can deeply nurture seeds of encouragement for meaningful experiences and accompany the sweetness of personal empowerment. It is the very nature of this simple and successful scaffolding that wisely supports new levels of thinking that can encourage and nurture supportive scaffolding within the practicalities of our everyday living. Can we empower our children to develop their individuality and creativity beyond that of the limitations of our present day? Our children are the future; their lives could take them far beyond where we are now. Their thoughts may create a different future for mankind. Their thoughts can pioneer new dimensions, fulfilling the maturity of mankind’s destiny into realms of expanded consciousness. These realms could leave the present knowledge and structures as an immature, infantile beginning, caught in the influence of sensory information. Hopefully our children will initiate steps towards new realms of thought and sincerity, and embrace positive energy powers far beyond infantile ignorance and childlike innocence. We do not need to teach our children anything, for all we know is possibly too limiting to be useful in their future. Their strength is in their ability to creatively go beyond our today and expand their thoughts across fields of enlightenment. They may powerfully support the establishment of true harmony within the earth planet’s future ecology. What we can offer is simply: loving shelter in their early development; heartfelt celebration of their undaunted creativity; and reverence for their higher levels of consciousness. We are their carers not their keepers, our endeavours and God’s mercy will guide them into their future.

As the carers of children of the future golden age, it is time to embrace a new form of education for all ages and all talents: Embracing a new approach based on natural play and multisensory learning.

Together we can

Aspire to go beyond what has been done before.

Make gratitude the most important part of your day.

Know that the natural world nurtures the secrets of life.

So Be It                        Love and light, Helena

Embrace our soul-spirit as the source of wellbeing.