Altissima's EGS helps students discover their own characters with greater clarity and definition. They will also gain a greater understanding of social interaction and will become more interested and involved in the benefits and responsibilities of society.
The premise is that people share similar fundamental characteristics and psychological styles. Interaction between children with common traits create shared observations. This builds a common confirmation of an experience. This corroboration of peers also builds confidence. Learning on various levels within that confirmed experience contributes to a sense of achievement. This type of experience also enhances a team player attitude and approach, which is valuable in all walks of life. With this technique, the school can help everyone to find their team.
Our system will give your students a range of meaningful structured social experiences. These social experiences are created by simply interacting and participating in groups that share important characteristics. We group and regroup the students for various similarities in their fundamental characters. In association, they learn to recognize their common traits and to manage them through the shared experience. In these groupings your high achieving students will be better positioned to serve as role models for their classmates. Each student will belong to several groups and participate in each of them in time. These groups will enable each student to experience their own character together with and in contrast to those of other students in meaningful ways.
This technique will help a large school feel like a much smaller community. Large school populations will actually yield better results in a shorter time than small ones. The student experience will be more clearly defined in groups that are derived from large populations.
It will encourage the spirit of tolerance, cooperation & harmony within your school. This grouping technique can be used as a mainstream grouping system or as groupings in specialized classes geared toward understanding character and society. It will help you to achieve a higher level of success in dealing with your students collectively. It will also help you to better meet each individual student's needs.
These groups can be implemented in a number of ways. They may be used in regular Homerooms, as Advisory Groups or as specially designed Character Classes. You might wish to use them another way. A little experience with these groupings will go a long way to help the development of your students. The relationships they find in these classes will improve their understanding and attitudes in many ways. These groupings will also help to clarify in great detail which students need extra help.
The teachers need not make any changes at all. These groupings will not intrude upon your normal academic curriculum and may even give you opportunities to expand it as you see that your students become more successful and involved in learning faster than usual! You will find that the children, as focused groups, will be more interested in their regular studies and in their academic setting.
Measurements of Progress. Your normal school measurements such as attendance and classroom behaviors will improve. Our Liaison will ask if you can share these measures with us so we can incorporate them into our statistics and present them to new schools. These would be expected to eventually improve achievement scores and graduation rates.
You will determine the level of our involvement. Over the year, the reports can be prepared for as few as 2 fundamental series of groups or as many as 14. The level of sophistication is up to you. We will be available for consultations to answer any queries you may have.