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KNOWLEDGE + LEARNING= SCHEMA

  • Earning higher grades and test scores

  • Enroll in higher-level programs

  • Be promoted, pass their classes and earn credits

  • Attend school regularly

  • Have better social skills, show improved behavior and adapt well to school

  • Graduate and go on to post-secondary education

DCT has been able to achieve at least a two letter grade improvement within one quarter!

 

 

The following quotes are from actual students:


  • “The day we are born we pick things up, learn, and we adapt. We understand things based on the ideas we have learned. Our understanding of new ideas changes based on the way we organized past experiences and ideas. If one of our experiences is a bad one then it will affect how we perceive new ideas or experiences. We can use maps to change the way we organize things in our mind to see all the possibilities in our lives.” - 3rd time Algebra I

  • "Now, since I had this class, I think smart is just organized. If everyone had a mental map and organized every idea, then everyone will be as smart as the other!" - 3rd time Algebra I


These building blocks, no matter participant income or background, have been shown by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)  to lead to:

Developing Critical Thinkers

1-on-1Tutoring

Developing Critical Thinkers

Family Workshop

  • Learn how to Learn by using the methodology with content of choice and/or need. So regardless of a particular teachers apporach and/or content, student will be able to use method to augment their learning.

  • Build Schema and Confidence in the content by developing critical and creative thinking.

  • Utilize technology to identify, capture, and communicate

DCT in Singapore
 

DCT was asked to run a workshop at the presitigous Nanyang Girls School in Singapore. This workshop was designed to address self-directed or 1-to-1 learning as well as approaches to building critical and creative thinking with any topic. In this short, you will see time laps footage as well as student interviews from these inspiring group of young women!

How We Learn Short
 

How we learn is a short clip showing what learning can look like from Kindergarden to High School using DCT's Methodology. In this particular clip, we used common core standards and built an organic map that a student should be building conceptually as they learn math. Please let us know your thoughts!

INNOVATION Short

Sean and Dan were selected by the Hawai'i State Teachers Association as one of the many representations of innovation created in the classrooms of Hawai'i. This project was the opportunity to share our classroom approach as well as  capture our students' thoughts and experiences in a dynamic  way! If your interested in contacting Kinetic Productions of Honolulu , check out their site here: Kinetic

TEDxHonolulu

DCT had the distinction of being selected to share our experience and approach to fostering critical thinking, creativity, and self-efficacy fostered in the classroom at TEDxHonolulu back in 2011. This opportunity truly gave us the encouragement to reflect on our practice as well as the begin shaping the direction we wanted to take as we started sharing our approach with other educators around the globe.

  • Learn how to Learn by using the methodology with content of choice and/or need. So regardless of a particular teachers apporach and/or content, student will be able to use method to augment their learning.

  • Build Schema and Confidence in the content by developing critical and creative thinking.

  • Utilize technology to identify, capture, and communicate self-directed learning

  • Support healthy and transparent family communication

Research has shown that "it is what parents do in the home rather than their status that is important." (Home Environment and School Learning, pg. 145) Unfortunately, as parents and families, we are often faced with limited time and/or the specific content knowledge needed to support our student's learning. It is with these concerns in mind, that we directed our U.S. Provisionally Patented process, classroom experiences, and Professional Development framework at the challenge of providing an opportunity for families to empower themselves! 

In our Tutoring and Family Workshop services, families and/or student will both experience and learn a framework that supports the development of critical thinking, creative thinking, and classroom performance, while also going beyond academics and directly supporting effective communication.

DCT Professional Services

​THINK​ + ALIGN= INNOVATE.​

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