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When parents decide about their children's education, it can be a great challenge and a complex decision.
Santa Fe, as an educational institution, considers quality--the ability of our institution to respond to the individual needs of each student--more important than quantity. Students, the "human capital" of any nation, must be equipped with the ability to process information and knowledge at the necessary level of social development.
Our educational system offers Preschool, Elementary School and High School levels with full respect for the changing needs of the student at each developmental stage.
In preschool, childhood education should be for everyone. There should be a broadening of experience throughout the early years, in which the child can develop fully and discover, accept, and consider differences in themselves and others. For this reason, the goal of education is "discovery, wholistic development, and socialization of children in a secure, stable and fun environment from ages 0 to 6."
As the preschooler develops in this stage of high energy and productivity, learning is permanent and interesting, and allows the student to discover knowledge itself in family, surroundings, and in him or herself. The child puts knowledge into practice in his life with others and realizes him or herself as an individual.
In Elementary School, children develop their skills in human thought, based on concrete reasoning focused on objects in their immediate reality.
In High School, we develop abstract thinking, so that students can understand facts and concepts without the need for concrete objects. In these stages, the division between cycles allows a structuring of programs to facilitate significant learning, in which students construct their own knowledge, changing only the focus, depth, and level of concreteness with which they are working.
Our Curricular Design views the person as an individual in order to advance human development from every standpoint education has to offer. In this design, we do not view education as a hierarchy in which the teacher transmits information to the students, but instead focus on the demands of the Information Age as the starting point for fulfilling students’ educational needs. Our pedagogical view marks our theory and practice, in which human beings learn about what is relevant to their lives and develop their potential to improve their existence.
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