Facilitating educational maturity.
"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will know."
Concept Statement:
The Bloom School seeks to instill educational maturity in people of all ages. We feel that this is accomplished
when a student takes ownership over their education. A student takes ownership when curriculum has been personally
created with the guidance of a counselor.
Why the Bloom School:
There are numerous facilities around the country that help people realize their innate gifts and talents. These are
commonly called, aptitudes. However, upon completion participants are given few resources to apply the testing results
to educational pursuits. The Bloom School works with students to development an "Educational Planî based on aptitude
testing from centers such as the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation.
We believe that each and every student learns in a different manner. Many schools today have blanket, boilerplate
solutions to curriculum instruction. This often produces pupils that think alike, thus conducting themselves just
as every other product of the institution.
When you allow a person to custom design a program of study, with the input of a curriculum counselor, you empower
the student to take ownership over their course of study. This ownership is when we feel that a sense of educational
maturity envelops the learning process.
Aptitudes:
Aptitudes are natural talents, special abilities for doing, or learning to do, certain kinds of things. Manual
dexterity, musical ability, spatial visualization, and memory for numbers are examples of such aptitudes. In a
comprehensive battery of tests these and many other aptitudes can be measured. These measured traits are often
highly stable over long-term periods.
Every occupation, whether it is engineering, medicine, law or management uses certain aptitudes. The work you
are most likely to enjoy and be successful in is work that uses your aptitudes. For example, if you are an
engineer but possesses aptitudes not used in engineering, your work might seem unrewarding. If you lack the
engineer's aptitudes, your work may be difficult or unpleasant.
Aptitude testing is one tool for career selection. It can help you find where your aptitudes lie, what type
of work uses those aptitudes, and why certain occupations may be more rewarding for you than others. When
these are discovered, the next logical step is employment counseling or curriculum development.
Creativity and Research:
Create: To cause to exist, Bring into being, Originate, To give rise to, Bring about, Produce, An original
product of human invention or imagination.
At the heart of the Bloom School you will find creativity. Our educational facilitators are more than professors.
They facilitate the creative process. This is a response to an understanding that all new thought is the result
of a creative pursuit. We feel that what has been done in simply that, it has already been done. Therefore our
focus is to create new and exciting research.
The Bloom School seeks to establish itself as a leader in research. Through research initiatives with other
institutions, we all can benefit from cutting edge academic understanding of numerous disciplines.
The Bloom Community:
Students at the Bloom School have custom designed the experience here with regard to everything from educational
pursuits to job roles. They are all functioning for the greater good of the community and themselves. Yes, this
is a time to be altruistic and selfish at the same time.
Our community is one of continuity, self-sufficiency and democracy. Everyone has a role within the community,
whether it is that of educator, kitchen worker, grounds keeper or farm staff. The members of this community,
teachers and students alike, are needed and necessary parts of a smooth running organism. With each and every
member functioning to their capacity, the group is exponentially stronger then in separate parts.
The administration sincerely believes that each and every kind of educational pursuit can and should have an
impact on the other pursuits available at the school. Through our community students are exposed to several
different disciplines that may not have otherwise been exposed to.
Areas of Concentration:
- Agriculture
- Education
- English
- Fine and Applied Arts
- Language Studies
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences
Concept of the word Bloom:
With the curvaceous and reflexive look of the B, O's and M, the word symbolizes the cyclical and open nature of
education. On a more obvious note, we think of the school as fertile ground where a student can blossom, or bloom.
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