"A perfect balance between performing, talking and student active participation" (Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary)
"The students were absolutely INTRIGUED throughout" (French American School)
"A tremendous success every year!" (Jose Olavarrieta, Ainsworth)
"The students were absolutely INTRIGUED throughout" (French American School)
"A tremendous success every year!" (Jose Olavarrieta, Ainsworth)
Artist Biography
Ali-Olé is a powerful female duo who have toured worldwide as members of the Al Andalus Ensemble. Recipients of the California ArtsBridge Award and the Peoples Grammy Award, Barcelona born flamenco dancer Verónica Medina Cano and flamenco guitarist Julia Banzi join forces to showcase how cultures are connected across centuries and continents.
Teaching Philosophy
Our classroom is a space for exploration and discovery. We favor practical lessons in which students get hands-on experience of the subjects under analysis. We like to see students enjoying themselves in class or onstage, yet also ask them to focus on the task at hand. WE create learning settings (classroom or onstage) that empower students to make decisions for themselves so that they develop self-confidence and foster development of their critical thinking skills.
In the classroom we write our lessons to target higher-order thinking skills from Bloom’s Taxonomy such as ‘creating’, ‘inquiring’ and ‘critiquing’. We aim to have all our students think critically about themselves and the world around them.
Our goal to have students think outside the box, critique the everyday assumptions they take for granted, and leave my classes with more questions than answers.
To encourage a critical thinking approach, we consistently ask students to analyze concepts that we teach from multiple competing perspectives.
We prioritize authentic learning situations where students learn through solving real-world problems. In this way, we help our students understand the connection between what they’re learning and life beyond the four walls of the classroom.
We also embrace an inquiry based learning approach whereby we start with a question and students come up with hypotheses for answering the questions. Through this approach, students exercise skills like ‘predicting’ and ‘testing’ to seek knowledge.
We encourage students to use scientific methods to solve problems. Through scientific inquiry, students do not simply learn new information, but learn how to go about seeking truths through accurate and reliable testing methods.
We bring creative connections between science, history, culture art & music with an exciting Spark! We believe that when children are raised with respect and curiosity towards other cultures it encourages cooperation and their worldview expands.
* California ArtsBridge award: "Best in Creative and Complete Planning for Teaching Arts in the Public Schools”
* Peoples Grammy Award for "Best World Music Song"
(chosen #1 from 560,000 entries).
In the classroom we write our lessons to target higher-order thinking skills from Bloom’s Taxonomy such as ‘creating’, ‘inquiring’ and ‘critiquing’. We aim to have all our students think critically about themselves and the world around them.
Our goal to have students think outside the box, critique the everyday assumptions they take for granted, and leave my classes with more questions than answers.
To encourage a critical thinking approach, we consistently ask students to analyze concepts that we teach from multiple competing perspectives.
We prioritize authentic learning situations where students learn through solving real-world problems. In this way, we help our students understand the connection between what they’re learning and life beyond the four walls of the classroom.
We also embrace an inquiry based learning approach whereby we start with a question and students come up with hypotheses for answering the questions. Through this approach, students exercise skills like ‘predicting’ and ‘testing’ to seek knowledge.
We encourage students to use scientific methods to solve problems. Through scientific inquiry, students do not simply learn new information, but learn how to go about seeking truths through accurate and reliable testing methods.
We bring creative connections between science, history, culture art & music with an exciting Spark! We believe that when children are raised with respect and curiosity towards other cultures it encourages cooperation and their worldview expands.
* California ArtsBridge award: "Best in Creative and Complete Planning for Teaching Arts in the Public Schools”
* Peoples Grammy Award for "Best World Music Song"
(chosen #1 from 560,000 entries).
