Magical Classroom

We have officially started our classes!

 We are very excited and happy to be able to start another year!

We started preparing our Teacher Facilitators in January. We did our first training with the objective of having ready facilitators to receive our children.

Our classes have started! Our 27 Magic Classrooms are open! And we have welcomed many wonderful, shy, and eager children into our Magic Classrooms. We are expecting to welcome more than 325 preschoolers, 4, 5, and 6-year-olds.

We are starting with 27 Magic Classrooms, distributed in Quiché, Sololá, Santa Rosa, and Huehuetenango, Guatemala. We have 27 young Facilitator teachers and 3 Community Coordinators in our team, ready and excited to share and care for our children.

During this year, we will be sharing with you everything that is happening in our program! 

Thank you for being with us!

Aula Mágica Guatemala

Magical Classroom Methodology

Aula Mágica uses the Active methodology, which consists of a set of methods, techniques, and strategies that put the child at the center of learning, making them more autonomous and participative.

With the Active Methodology, we facilitate an education provides children with a pleasant working environment and innovative, participatory, dynamic, fun, meaningful, and active learning. It also seeks to implement different methods inside and outside the classroom, which are adapted to the subjects taught, the child's age, and the pace of teaching-learning. The alternative methods we use are:

- Montessori: the child can explore freely and discover from their curiosity and experiences with different didactic activities, including numbers and letters.

- Waldorf: we promote manual and artistic skills, contact with nature, and wholesome values.

- Learning based on thinking: we work with the children to develop critical thinking.

- Project method: This is carried out through spaces called “learning corners” such as reading corner, block corner, art corner, numbers and letters corner, music corner, and art corner, in which different activities can be explored, and where the children can experiment with various recycled and natural materials.

- Alphabetic and phonetic methods: we integrate the alphabet to learn vowels and consonants, as well as the sound, image, and movement of each letter.

- Newark method or story method: a story is read in each class, supporting the child's curiosity and imagination, and awakening a love for reading in which rhymes, games, tongue twisters, dramatizations, and reading comprehension are integrated.

-Star method: learning sounds and tracing letters of the alphabet.

-CNB (National Core Curriculum) AND Creative CURRICULUM: both curricula are combined so that facilitators have pedagogical tools providing the necessary content to encourage and support children, helping them to be successful, creative thinkers and achievers, and offering practical opportunities for exploration and discovery.

Among the strategies integrated into the program are small experiments, magic words, learning through play, educational audio, implementation of technology, and fine and gross motor techniques.

The benefits of the Active Methodology for the children of Aula Mágica are: a greater motivation for learning and for new information, the acquisition of new cognitive, social, and emotional skills, encouraging curiosity and imagination, developing motor and language skills, and fostering autonomy. In this way, we help children to be successful and become thinking, creative and confident children. The methodology is implemented and adapted according to each community's social and cultural context in the departments where we are currently working. Our facilitators become guides of learning, who use concrete experiences to create an education that is meaningful and effective.

Aula Mágica Guatemala/ Magical Classroom Guatemala