Model School Comprehensive Humanistic Learning Center
Preschool in Berkeley, CA 94705
The purpose of The Model School is to provide a true alternative for parents who know that children can’t wait and who want for their children a comprehensive educational program in an ideally prepared humanistic developmental learning environment
- Child Ages:
- 3 months - 6 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- California Department of Social Services: Community Care Licensing Division
- Preschool:
- Yes
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The Model School Comprehensive Humanistic Learning Center is dedicated to the promotion of human growth and development. This dedication is geared not only to children but also encompasses staff and parents. We believe that the growth and development of children is after all dependent upon the the growth and development of those adults whose privilege and duty it is to guide them.
Growth for our purposes is defined not only as a continuous developmental process in terms of learning facts and developing skills but also as the development of those attitudes ideas feelings and behaviors which denote greater understanding and acceptance of self and greater understanding and acceptance of others.
The Model School philosophy concurs with Carl Rogers (Freedom To Learn 1969) who asserts that when the human being is inwardly free to choose whatever he or she deeply values he or she tends to value those objects experiences and goals which contribute to his or her own survival growth and development and to the survival growth and development of others.
The Model School philosophy concurs with Abraham Maslow (Eupsychian Management 1965) that it is characteristic of the human organism to prefer self actualizing and socialized goals when exposed to a growth promoting climate.
The Model School concurs with John Dewey (Schools of Tomorrow 1962) that the environment is not a place within which behavior occurs but a genuine part and contributing condition of behavior. The role of the environment is not to mold or to shape the individual but rather to permit him or her to actualize his or her potentialities.
The Model School accepts the major philosophical concepts developed by Dr. Maria Montessori (The Absorbent Mind 1949). These concepts include but are not limited to:
The concept of the prepared environment
The concept of freedom of movement
The concept of the absorbent mind
The concept of normalization
The concept of sensitive periods
The concept of the three period lesson
The Model School philosophy believes in the worth and dignity of every human being thus children and adults are entitled to equal respect. We are all partners in the process of growth and development. It is assumed that persons who enroll their children accept these Model School philosophical concepts.
