Serving preschool education and beyond
Gracademia comprises volunteers with a passion for education, starting from preschool age. We are:
- industry professionals with real career insights
- professional trainers for character development and communication skills
- coaches who get us into the flow of learning and exploring
Complimenting formal education
We help young people grow as self-directed learners with collaboration skills who can reflect upon and better understand the knowledge and skills they acquire in school. We believe in supporting the growth of our children’s learning ability, confidence, and identity, because this benefits them by strengthening their capacity to discovery and set their career and education choices.
We are guided by the Singapore Ministry of Education’s framework for 21st Century competencies and student outcomes. Our interactions are based on our shared norms and code of conduct.
21st Century competencies
(Source: Singapore Ministry of Education)
Our framework
Our passion
The real world wants people who can work, innovate, lead and deliver gains from day one. We believe this combination of hard technical skills and soft people skills can be developed by building a habit for appreciative and interdisciplinary inquiry that leverages on our natural curiosity, starting from preschool. We help our young talents build such habit in our courses that compliment local preschool and primary education, and our global coaching and mentoring activity.
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Our approach
We base our approach on established education and student development research. Fundamentally, we believe that the social-emotional learning is an important enabler and growth is best served by:
- Autonomous testing and experimentation to expand our boundaries.
- Constant and multiple dialogue that enhances self-clarity.
- Self awareness, appreciation, and authenticity.
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Our values
Gracademia is formed from two words: gratitude and academia. We believe in genuine appreciation and learning excellence.
Our core values are:
- Accessibility
providing easy access to relevant information and resources - Authenticity
connecting self-clarity and the real world of work - Autonomy
supporting autonomous learning and developing self-directed learners - Awareness
improving self-awareness of passion and competencies, to enhance career and education decision making - Appreciation
for maintaining positivity, opening minds, and recognizing strengths for clarity and personal development