LifeSmart™ Curriculum
Tutor Time's LifeSmart™ curriculum builds on your child's cognitive,
social and emotional needs. While building a class rocket ship out
of buttons and boxes, the children engage in creative problem solving
and teamwork. Peering through binoculars and searching for birds
in a bird book, encourages self-discovery and teaches them about
science and nature. Teachers are careful to facilitate and encourage,
asking open-ended questions, that spur literacy development and
support emerging writing and math skills. The Tutor Time Curriculum
has well defined and detailed goals designed to give the students
the skills and base that will support them and give them the confidence
to achieve at each new level.
Our Kindergarten classrooms include rich learning centers that
are designed around eight “Smarts”. These learning centers invite
children to participate in self-directed investigations that build
problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
WordSmart: |
MathSmart |
BodySmart |
DesignSmart |
| Likes
to read, write and tell stories and excels at learning and
using new words. |
Explores
patterns and numbers, and enjoys figuring out how things work. |
Uses
body language, loves to move and play sports, excels at dancing
and other physical activity. |
“The
visualizer” loves to understand maps, draw, build, design
and create. |
MusicSmart |
NatureSmart |
PeopleSmart |
MeSmart |
| Has a
natural sense of rhythm, and enjoys singing, playing instruments
and listening to music. |
Likes
to be outside and care for living things. |
“The
socializer” likes to work in groups, pretend to be someone
else, and is sensitive to the feelings of others. |
Likes
to be introspective, is in-tune with their personal feelings
and thoughts and enjoys working alone. |
Creating Character
Our Creating Character program introduces specific character traits
such as making good decisions, caring for others, responsibility,
fairness, trust, sharing and respect. Each month a different character
trait is introduced via quality children’s literature. Each book
chosen will exemplify the character trait to be focused on for
that month. Along with book suggestions, the Tutor Time® curriculum
department also offers activities and circle time discussions
for the teachers and children to participate in throughout the
month, which will help strengthen the children’s understanding
of that particular character trait in a meaningful way. The hope
is that the children will develop the character traits via the
books and activities and exhibit them in the classroom and at
home.
Learning Care System®
Learning Care System® is the name of a new system designed by
the curriculum department and being installed in the Tutor Time®
classrooms worldwide. Learning Care System®, among other things,
allows teachers to harvest knowledge by having access to the activities
and ideas of teachers, directors and managers from 2100 centers
on 4 different continents worldwide. Learning Care System® also
offers another link for parent/teacher communication by allowing
parents tremendous access to their child’s performance reports,
feedback options and more in a real-time setting via access to
Learning Care System®. This is truly an evolution in curriculum
design and delivery, student assessment, parent access and a value
added teacher resource that has been in development for several
years, live tested and praised at Tutor Time® campuses and ready
to be implemented during the 2007-2008 school term.
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