The Learning Tree International Kindergarten
| Address: | Lovĉenska 38, Mlinovi |
| Phone: | 4646-566 |
| Fax: | 4646-566 |
| Mobile: | 091-4646-666 |
| E-mail: | contact@tltkindergarten.com |
| Web: | www.tltkindergarten.com |
The Learning Tree is a private playschool center for young children, 2-6 years of age this. It offers learning opportunities through age-appropriate activities conducted in a completely English-speaking atmosphere. At TLT we help children to see the world as an invitation to learn, grow and live fully by seeing possibilities within their reach. MISSIONOur mission is to provide a cohesive and effective curriculum that meets the needs of each student while honoring cultural diversity and individual learning styles. Hands-on engaged learning, innovative approaches, and increased parent/neighborhood involvement combine to create a dynamic climate of collaboration, respect, and challenge for every member of TLT. We will accomplish this mission one child, one family at a time.
VISIONOur vision for TLT is to become a school that ensures that every child attains the knowledge, skills, understandings, and motivation, which constitute world-class levels of performance. The key word here is every. As an international school we hope to reflect the strengths of a diverse population sharing our cultural riches to benefit all. OUR PROGRAM Who is the teacher?The teacher plays a key role in our program, he/she prepares the environment for the child and is participant in the child living and growing within it. The teacher directs the child to find the best way to learn from the environment rather than from the adult, teacher’s role is to facilitate child-initiated activities. At TLT teachers are considered partners because active learning depends on positive adult-child interactions; they are supportive as they converse and play with children. We rely on encouragement and use a problem-solving approach to deal with everyday classroom situations rather than child management system based on praise, punishment and reward. We offer individualized attention therefore our student-teacher ratio is 6 children per one adult. How is the classroom organized?Our open-space classrooms are structured around learning centers where students work independently or in small groups in an orderly environment. Our children will move from one attractive learning center for math and science to another for art or geography.
Learning centers in the classroom are all linked to a theme unit, allowing the student not only to explore a given topic in-depth, but also to connect that learning to different areas of development through experience.Centers include: Early Math and Science, Art and Crafts, Geography and Social Studies, fine motor and discrimination, early literacy (reading and writing), blocks and construction, computers, drama and practical life. How we perceive children?At TLT children are considered active learners. We believe that young children act on their innate desire to explore; they ask and search for answers to questions about people, materials, events, and ideas. Children solve problems that stand in the way of their goals; and they generate new strategies to try solving them.Therefore at TLT curriculum, environment, materials, assessment and child-teacher relationship are directed to stimulate and encourage active learning. Developmentally appropriate activities are carefully planned in our daily routines. An educational experience is developmentally appropriate when the activities challenge the learner’s capacities, helps the learner to develop a unique pattern of interests and goals, and presents learning experiences when learners are best able to master, generalize and retain. What is the age range and how children are grouped?Although humans are not usually born in litters, we seem to insist that they should be educated in them. Our rationale for creating a multiage classroom is to increase heterogeneity of the group so as capitalize on the differences in the experiences, knowledge and abilities of the children.At TLT we considered that multiage classrooms bring lots of advantages for the students and the teachers. This assumption is based on research which proves that young children up to age of 8 learn best when they learn from BOTH teachers and peers, and when they have as many hands on, concrete learning experiences as possible. Our goal is to develop a nurturing atmosphere, where each child learns at his own pace and more attention is given to teaching in the ways that young children learn best and not in setting rigid expectations for the whole class in which achievement is based only on the child’s age. How we do classroom management?Learning self-control is just a normal part of growing up. At TLT we use positive tactics that strengthen self-teem. Most behaviors and situations can be handled by redirecting the child to another more appropriate activity. TLT creates a peaceful classroom by offering children a well structured but flexible environment, balanced routines, age appropriate activities and the guidance of caring and knowledgeable teachers. Special ServicesThe Learning Tree Playschool recognizes the need for the international community to have special services available to their children. Therefore beside our regular educational program we offer other services such as: Early Intervention/Psychological Services Extra-curricular activities Transportation Drop-in Services ("by the hour") We invite the Croatian and International community of Zagreb to find out what makes our preschool program distinctively different. Contact Us!! Josmar Martinez-Pavic M.Ed.
Entrance
Storytime
Making Our Planet
Math
Planting
Art Work
Outdoor Painting
Making Volcano
Outdoor Play
Swiming Pool
