PAIDEIA
Paideia is designed to teach students how to learn so that they are prepared fopr lifelong learning while stressting the
values of creativity, innovation, and experimentation.  In other words, Paideia is a model of student centered learning.
Students relate to teachers as fellow inquirers, rather than as providers of information.  Hence, Paideia captures the
student's attention and invites their intellectual involvement.
Acquistion of
Organized
Knowledge

by means of

Didactic
Instruction,
Textbooks,
and other Aids

in these areas of
subject matter

Language Arts,
Literature,
Mathematics,
Natural Sciences,
History, and
Geography

Assessment by
RECALL
 Development of Skills

by means of

Coaching with
Supervised Practice

in the operation of

Reading, Writing, Speaking,
Listening, Calculating,
Problem Solving, Observing,
Measuring,
Analyzing, Estimating,
Exercising Critical
Hudgement, Performing in
the Fine Arts
 Enlarged Understanding
of Ideas and Issues

by means of

Socratic Questoning
in Seminar
Discussions

of

Imaginative and
Expository Literature,
Works of Visual and
Musical Art, Etc.

Assessment by ORAL
and WRITTEN
UNDERSTANDING
 102 Ideas
as purposed
by M. Adler

Goals &
Principles of
Paideia

Socratic
Questioning



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