Hanging Around IntelleQ Learning Centre

IntelleQ Learning Centre is more than just an English learning facility. IntelleQ Learning Centre holds firmly on the belief that it is very important for us to create a homely, English learning environment. Parents are more than welcomed to just hang around and mingle with the staffs while students get to mix around with fellow IntelleQ-tualists from many different races and nationalities from different parts of the globe. Below are random shots on a typical Tuesday. Mrs Pooneh usually hangs around, surfing the internet or doing her own research while waiting for her daughter, Hana, enjoying her fun-filled English lessons.



IntelleQ Learning Centre's Beliefs About Education and Teaching

IntelleQ Learning Centre believes that every student who enters a classroom can succeed. As a learning centre, it is our duty to help students reach their full potential and gain the knowledge and skills that they will require in their daily lives as a democratic citizen of our society. Teaching should be student-centered and students should be accountable for their learning and behaviour. 

In addition, students should take responsibility for their decisions and actions. As a learning centre, we will help to facilitate our student’s pursuit for knowledge and help them acquire the communication skills, problem solving skills, and critical thinking skills which will enable them to be life-long learners. IntelleQ Learning Centre believes students should learn to be independent, yet have the skills necessary to work constructively in a team.

The IntelleQ-tualists' team is a role model for the students; thus, we should demonstrate respect, honesty, empathy, responsibility, promptness, and a desire for learning. To help nurture a desire for learning in students, we feel that education should be relevant and interesting. Education should incorporate the students’ families and communities when possible. 

IntelleQ Learning Centre also believes that every student has something to teach us. In order to facilitate sharing of ideas by our students, IntelleQ Learning Centre wishes to develop a safe atmosphere where our students feel that their thoughts and opinions are valued. 

Therefore, IntelleQ Learning Centre's teachers are more than a source of learning, or a facilitator of knowledge because IntelleQ Learning Centre's teachers are mentors and  trusted adults with whom students feel safe to share both accomplishments and challenges. Last but not least, IntelleQ Learning Centre believes that every student should be treated as an individual and that every individual deserves excellence in education.

Anne Sullivan - IntelleQ Learning Centre's Inspiration

           

           More famously known as "The Miracle Worker", Anne Sullivan was the lifelong teacher and companion to Helen Keller. Anne Sullivan was the daughter of Irish immigrant farmers who had fled to the United States to escape the Irish Potato Famine. Afflicted with trachoma, Anne had begun to lose her eyesight due to corneal scarring at age three, and was virtually blind by the age of five. When she was eight, her mother died of tuberculosis, and when she was ten her father, an abusive alcoholic, abandoned both her and her beloved younger brother at a poorhouse, Tewksbury's Massachusetts State Infirmary, to be raised there as orphans. Here her brother Jimmie, also suffering from tuberculosis, died in the Tewksbury infirmary, possibly victim to one of the many epidemics that routinely decimated poorhouse children.

     Through various benefactors, Anne received a series of operations to correct her vision. She was eventually accepted into the Perkins Institution, where she received additional treatment. Eventually her sight was restored enough that she could read for short periods. Meanwhile, she applied herself sufficiently to her studies that she graduated class valedictorian. Her talent and persistence had left a sufficient impression upon the staff at the Perkins Institution that she was personally recommended by its director to become Keller's teacher and mentor.

             On 5 April 1887, after a month of instructing Helen in the manual alphabet, and in civilized behavior, Anne experienced the "miracle" breakthrough that led Helen back into the world of communication and learning. While standing at the water pump together, with the water running over Helen's hand, Anne spelled the word "water" into Helen's hand. Suddenly Helen understood: the strange finger game they played was an attempt to communicate names and ideas.

          Soon Anne was serving as Helen's tutor and companion at Boston's Perkins Institution. Later, she accompanied Helen to the Wright-Humasen School in New York City as well as The Cambridge School for Young Ladies and Radcliffe College. While many admired her work with Helen, there were those detractors who were suspicious of the relationship, accusing Anne of manipulating Helen for her own purposes. Amongst the latter were those who felt Helen's socialist politics were merely a parroting of beliefs held by Anne and Anne's husband, writer and Harvard professor John Macy. Sullivan had met Macy when he had helped put together Helen Keller's autobiography. The couple divorced in 1913, but Anne's relationship with Helen Keller continued until Anne's death on 20 October 1936. In the year prior to her death, Anne's vision had relapsed into blindness.

Directions to IntelleQ Learning Centre

IntelleQ Learning Centre welcomes all of you! Feel free to drop by and visit us to have a taste of what IntelleQ Learning Centre is all about!

IntelleQ Learning Centre's Field Trip to Sunway Pyramid and Putrajaya

Thursday, 14.10.2010 : IntelleQ Learning Centre went on an expedition outside of the classroom with Dalia and Yosef Behzadi and into the "real world" where students got the chance to purchase items as well as communicate with sales person in English.

We started out at Sunway's famous Pyramid shopping mall where they were exposed to the many different types of stores and food outlets. This trip differentiates IntelleQ Learning Centre from other tuition centres and any other learning facilities in KL as we provide a very diverse way of teaching, an inside of the classroom and onto the outside world as well.

Everyone had great fun and the students definitely learnt a few things useful to their English language knowledge :)

History of Education

The history of education began either millions of years ago or at the end of 1770. Education as a science cannot be separated from the educational traditions that existed before. Adults trained the young of their society in the knowledge and skills they would need to master and eventually pass on. The evolution of culture, and human beings as a species depended on this practice of transmitting knowledge. In pre-literate societies this was achieved orally and through imitation. Story-telling continued from one generation to the next. Oral language developed into written symbols and letters. The depth and breadth of knowledge that could be preserved and passed soon increased exponentially. When cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond the basic skills of communicating, trading, gathering food, religious practices, etc., formal education, and schooling, eventually followed. Schooling in this sense was already in place in Egypt between 3000 and 500BC.

Nowadays some kind of education is compulsory to all people in most countries. Due to population growth and the proliferation of compulsory education, UNESCO has calculated that in the next 30 years more people will receive formal education than in all of human history thus far.

IntelleQ Learning Centre's classroom

IntelleQ Learning Centre's hallway

IntelleQ Learning Centre's classroom from outside.    

   (This will allow parents to observe how classes are conducted.)

IntelleQ Learning Centre's reading corner

IntelleQ Learning Centre's library

IntelleQ Learning Centre's library 

IntelleQ Learning Centre's hallway