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FAMILIES
Our Biggest Allies
Families are an essential pillar of our program, as they are the primary stakeholders in ensuring their children's social and emotional well-being. Therefore, from the beginning of the program, we maintain an open communication channel with families, informing them of their children's weekly progress. At the end of the program, we deliver a detailed report on the progress observed, accompanied by a phone call to discuss the results and address any questions.
Learning Through Play
At La Tarasca, we transform socio-emotional education into an exciting and participatory experience. Through gamification, collaborative narratives and directed play, we help your children develop skills such as empathy, communication and conflict resolution in a natural and fun way.
We chose play as the medium and driver of learning based on the latest advances in the field of neuroscience and education, which have shown that through play more neural connections are created, requiring fewer repetitions of the behaviours to be learned. This results in deeper and more effective learning. Below are a couple of papers that explore these findings in detail:
The Social Skills Ladder
We base our educational program on an internationally recognised social-emotional learning model: the DIRFloortime method. This approach was created to accommodate the cognitive development of all children, with special attention to special learning needs.
Combating Screen Time
Since the demographics we work with are disproportionately affected by digital overdependence, at LaTarasca we make an intentional effort to provide these children with an experience that motivates them and helps them enjoy the present without screens, through a completely analog and gamified approach.
Tailored Approach
Our first step is to get to know each child through their families' insights. To do this, we ask parents to complete an enrolment questionnaire, which allows us to begin tailoring the program to the individual needs of each participant.
In addition, we have two other questionnaires that are very useful for us to personalise the programme in more depth. These give an insight into what the programme is working on and help parents to make a better estimate of the benefit their children can get from the program.
"The brain needs 400 repetitions to develop a new synapse; play helps the brain create a synapse in just 10-20 repetitions." Elbeltagi R.
Development – Assess and support progress along the social, emotional, and cognitive skills ladder with the goals of fostering reciprocity, intentionality, empathy, creativity, and resilience.
Individual Differences – Assess, incorporate, and enhance the unique ways in which a child or adolescent registers, modulates, and interprets sensations, visuospatial information, language, motor stimuli and challenges, and concepts.
Relationships – Evaluate and utilize finely tuned adult-child relationships to support neural integration and social, emotional, and cognitive growth. Ideal relationships are characterized by warmth, flexibility, sensitivity, openness to all emotions, developing awareness of self and other, and shared joy.
"I have good ideas. When we're in a bind, my colleagues listen to me."
Samiya, 10