LEARNING STRATEGIES

Strategies to achieve each of the goals include:

Goal 1: Help each child gain the knowledge and academic skills needed to set and achieve personal goals necessary for success in learning.

• Develop and meet individual educational goals
• Provide individualized education
• Improve reading and comprehension skills
• Promote a joy in reading as a life-long activity
• Learn how to write and what to write
• Improve mathematics knowledge and skills
• Learn and practice problem solving skills
• Learn and practice concentration and focus
• Understand their style of learning
• Develop and practice social skills in a variety of settings
• Learn and practice self-discipline

Goal 2: Integrate educational programs and activities with treatment to turn character development, personal growth and emotional and behavioral management knowledge and skills into academic success.

• Build self-esteem and self-confidence through academic and social achievement
• Use emotional and behavioral management goals in the classroom
• Provide character development opportunities in a multitude of venues and situations
• Apply academic rules and behavioral expectations consistently
• Provide conceptual freedom while developing and practicing acceptable behaviors and socialization skills
• Provide learning at the child’s pace with appropriate performance pressures and reduced anxiety
• Enhance and practice expression of all types
• Build success on each child’s strengths by taking small incremental steps, recognizing at every stage progress being made

Goal 3: Instill in each child the sense of the enjoyment that comes from learning.

• Provide children choices in learning areas and the development of their personal education plans
• Encourage children to develop ownership of the process and content of their academic work
• Provide self-directed learning and the support of involved and excited adults
• Build in success for each child, failure is not fun for anyone
• Provide multiple learning methods and opportunities, including experiential hands on learning approaches
• Use creative and innovative projects to instill and excitement for learning
• Provide positive reinforcements and incentives
• Teach how to value mistakes as opportunities to learn