If you are looking for a school for your child or if you are not convinced by the type of education you are currently in, there is a range of education options from which you can choose the one that is closest to your way of seeing the world.
To help you in that search, week by week .la explains in depth each of the educational methods that we share with you in the educational methods guide, as well as other systems that combine several of these methods into one. This week we talk about method eclectic.
What does the word eclectic mean?: comes from the Greek eklektikos which means «the one who chooses».
Created by: Robert Gagné, American psychologist, in 1985.
Methodology: offers a complete human development taking strategies, principles and concepts from various pedagogies. It brings together all the methods, taking the good of each one to promote speed in learning, create a firm foundation of knowledge that is learned gradually and improve attention and discipline. It recognizes that the truth is the result of a commitment that does not show adherence to a particular theoretical line. It is based on an information processing model.
Role of the teacher:
to. Handles a range of possibilities of knowledge transmission strategies.
b. Makes a justified selection of the appropriate teaching strategies.
c. Makes preliminary diagnoses of students’ prior knowledge.
d. Analyzes the learning styles that characterize students.
and. Take advantage of the various resources available, as well as the features of the classroom.
F. Determines the sequence that must be followed to teach the educational contents established in the study programs. It is not necessarily a rectilinear sequence but it can resume, deepen and expand on the topics.
Student role:
to. He works in research.
b. Do self-directed consultations.
c. Learn to learn through various strategies and methodologies.
d. Develop mnemonic learning.
and. He is able to memorize, apply, exemplify, expose and solve problems.
F. Develop a critical, analytical and reflective attitude.
Assessment: It combines various forms of evaluation characteristic of different pedagogical methodologies.
Eclectic schools in CDMX
South Zone
Annual cost (60,000-100,000)
–French College of Pedregal
–Ashmont School SC
–The Lord Bertrand Russell School
–La Paz College
–Continental School (constructivist-eclectic)
–Teifaros College
–Charlie Chaplin College
Annual cost (+100,000)
–Tlalpan Institute
west area
Annual cost (60,000-100,000)
–Columbia College
–Instituto Miguel Ángel Elementary
Annual cost (+100,000)
–Japanese Mexican High School (constructivist-eclectic)
–Fernando R. Rodríguez School
#Let’sMakeCommunity and help us feed this list. Do you know of any other schools that use the eclectic method that we should add?
Do you know what kind of system the school where your child goes to uses?
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