ISENS provides teaching of children from 6 to 17 years old. Moreover we have proposition for adults as well. For each age group its own teaching concept is elaborated, which is supported by curriculum and studing program. The continuity between curricula exists. In Other words, if a child came to us at 6, and was taught out in the preschool age group, it will be much easier to understand material in the middle group, because it is based on the knowledges received earlier.
We try to enforce theoretical knowledge by practical skills. For this purpose a set of completely supported (technically and methodically) laboratory works are developed by our methodists. Seminars are also very good, because they teach children to prepare reports and presentations and of cource to formulate their thoughts correctly.
The most important subjects for us are physics, math, logics and chemistry. The meterial is given in a play form for youngest age group. The main attention is given to observation and discussion of fundamental laws and facts with the middleagers. And we demonstrate how the laws of physics envolve in mathematical models and algorythms to our oldest students. If we meet with the fact that students have some spaces in basikal knowledges, we slow down and look deeper into particular theme. Thus we not olny raise up the education quality at our school, but also help our students to understand better that material, which they got as part of the compulsory school curriculum.
A special place in our studing process is given to programming. We use several training robots with our smallest students. It gives us an abbylity to show main programming concepts to 6 year old children in a very simple form, so they become ready to meet this material in the further studing phases. Middleagers usually start with the block programming, which gives the program algorithmic structure understanding. And finally we give several adult programming languages to our teenagers. It should be mentioned that we do not have the main goal to teach our students some programming language syntax itself. Our main aim is to teach children systematic thinking, to give them some specific mathematical apparatus, that gives an ability of project development using programming language as a tool.
contact usOne more whale our studing programs are based on is general engigeering training. Here we lean on the Mechanical Phisycs, and of course on everyone's favorite robot assembly which develops fine motor skills of the hands and spatial thinking. During this lessons children learn how to use a screwdrivew and wrench, what is the difference between a screw and a bolt etc. Children get the first practical aquanitance with the geometry rules and concepts.