Waterford Institute employs technology to both scale and elevate the art and science of teaching and provide individualized, interactive instruction that ensures mastery of materials. Waterford has been developing, expanding, and refining its software for over 30 years, and the Institute’s commitment to technology in education is based on the following premises:
Technology Is Scalable: One great teacher can instruct only a handful of students every year; software can take that knowledge and teach almost a limitless number of students.
Technology Provides Equity: All children, regardless of family means, have access to the best education. Unlike standard schooling where schools and faculty can lack uniformity in terms of quality and talent, software makes it possible for the poorest children to have the same high-quality teaching available to them as the wealthiest children have.
Technology Provides Individualized Instruction: Software adapts to a child’s learning trajectory and ensures every activity is specifically chosen for that child’s needs, challenges, and strengths.
Technology Is Artistically Engaging: Beautiful graphics, music, and interactive activities keep children focused on learning.
Technology Is Generationally Appropriate: Today’s children are “digital natives” and adapt quickly and easily to software-based instruction.
Technology Provides Instantaneous and Ongoing Assessment: Testing can be seamlessly interwoven into the software curriculum and provide invaluable assessment and reporting functions.
Technology Is Cost Effective: The scalability of software reduces per-hour instruction expenses to mere pennies.
Technology Offers Accessibility: Children can receive instruction far beyond the 180 days of the traditional school year and six hours of the school day.
