What is behind the strategic decision of Carmel Castle to invest capital specifically in preschool children?
TyrCarmel is the city with the most options in Israel for babies and preschoolers
With a hand on the heart: what is more important to all of us: to live in a city that has an abundant cultural life, with lots of events, plays, entertainment and restaurants? Or in a city where our baby or small child receives a perfect and diverse education, almost from the day he is born, and in the first years of his life, the years that shape his world, in which he acquires skills, confidence, creative abilities and curiosity for learning?
If you ask the classic mother, the one many generations ago and also the one of the 21st century, the unequivocal answer will be one: the child is my whole world and is the most important thing in my life!
young families
This was the conclusion reached by the city officials of Tirat Carmel when the Ministry of Housing decided, as part of the "Urban Renewal" plan, to double and even triple the city's population and build about 10,000 housing units, it was clear to them that only an invested and excellent educational system could make the young families leave the settlements where they live and to displace them to the new city that is growing on the land of Carmel Castle.
Later it became clear to those leaders, led by Mayor Aryeh Tal, that the most important thing for the young parents is the education invested in their tender child, who has begun to take his first steps in the education system. At that moment, "the token fell to them" and Carmel Castle began, as a strategic decision, to invest a significant amount of capital in infants and preschool children, knowing clearly that the more options the city will give to young children, the more diverse and creative they will be, the more young families will choose to settle there and purchase apartments there.
The non-profit center
As of today and it is not a cliché, Carmel Castle is a perfect place of residence and habitat for preschool children. The non-profit center Focused on training, enrichment, activity and care for preschool children and their parents, it is now considered a center that is a national masterpiece for babies and toddlers. Educators come from all over the country to study the various programs held at the center and to copy them.
A few weeks ago, the new and integrated building of the Paot Center and Tifa Halab was inaugurated in a festive and exciting ceremony. Prof. Emmanuel Trachtenberg, who also serves as the head of the Institute for National Security Studies, congratulated and said: "I am very excited and remember my visit to the Carmel Castle a few years ago, so I was very excited And I was impressed and even inspired, which led me to doing and creating a model of a preschool campus. Today it happens - and it's wonderful! The vision, the creation, breaking the patterns in order to establish something that meets the needs of the parents and their children at a young age - this is a point of light in a great darkness. I wish for all of us to continue and be inspired by the new center and the rich work, and I hope that each of you will spread the news in every corner of the State of Israel, for a better future for all of us."
Everyone is talking about it…
Everyone is talking about today Montessori Kindergartens. The method became the "bon ton" for the schooling method for kindergarten children, and in many cities private kindergartens were established where the children are educated according to the method.
Tirat Carmel, along with the cities of Kfar Saba and Yeruham, are today considered to be the main cities in Israel where public kindergartens were established in the popular method in which the children study in an environment designed to support natural and planned learning, to allow them to develop in a balanced way in terms of cognitive, physical and emotional and thus the child receives the best environment in He will reveal his potential and naturally acquire life skills, personal independence, awareness, order, process understanding, social skills, sensory activity, motor skills, vocabulary expansion, sciences and more.
Preparing the children for the world
In the near future, the children of the compulsory kindergarten in Tirat Carmel are going to enjoy and learn from"Google" project, which includes computer tools for information and communication designed to promote the education and development of young children. The purpose of the project is to prepare the children at a young and tender age for optimal functioning in the world in which they are growing up, with the help of experiential and relevant tools that match their development and their world. The tools were developed by the best experts in the field of education, with maximum adaptation to the needs of the child.
Google will allow kindergarten children to be exposed, learn and find their way around the sophisticated world in which we live through various tools:
- "Tell me" - a search engine for children that allows them to search for information on topics that interest them, promotes the abilities required to retrieve it and develops information literacy.
- "email me" - Secure e-mail that allows children to communicate with their friends in kindergarten, with their parents and with the kindergarten staff. Educates non-verbal communication and develops written language literacy.
- "write to me" - A word processor for children that allows them to write and print messages, promotes written language literacy: knowing basic writing rules, understanding the different purposes and uses of writing.
- "how much" - A spreadsheet for children that allows them to refer to phenomena from their daily lives following data collection and processing. Develops and enriches their world in the field of scientific-technological education, educates for an informed observation of the environment and provides tools for this.
At the Carmel Castle, the children bring their parents
Here it is, register before you a unique patent for the Carmel Castle, in which the creators were overturned. Instead of the parents bringing their children to the city, in Carmel Castle the children are the ones who make the parents leave their old place of residence and move to live in the city that embraces and loves the babies and the kindergarten children.