Our program

TLT offers the following programs and early drop off service from 7:30 am:

* Monday, Wednesday and Friday programs are just offered for children under the age of 4.
** Extended Care (3:30pm-5.30pm) is a custodial service only. The school shall not in any way follow any curriculum thereof.

Teachers play a key role in our program. They prepare the environment for the child and participate in the child’s life and growth within it. Teachers’ direct the child to find the best way to learn from the environment (rather than from the adult). Teachers’ roles are to facilitate child-initiated activities.

At TLT teachers are considered partners because active learning depends on positive and warm adult-child interactions, they are supportive as they converse and play with children. Teachers rely on encouragement, predictability/structure of the environment and a positive behavior approach to deal with everyday classroom situations. In addition, our very small student-teacher ratio of six children per teacher, allow us to offer a truly individualized approach.

Our open-space classrooms are structured around learning areas where students work independently or in small groups in an prepared environment.

Some areas in the classroom are 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.

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 to solve them.

Therefore, at TLT , curriculum, environment, materials, assessment and child-teacher relationships are focused 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 children’ capacities enough to promote their progress and interest. Learning experiences are hands-on, engaging, active and creative to guarantee that children can master, generalize and retain skills/concepts.

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 consider 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 eight 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 — not in setting rigid expectations for the whole class in which achievement is based only on a child’s age.

At TLT parents are full partners and participants in their children’s academic experience. Teachers communicate daily with parents. Our Home School Connection suggests activities that support the lesson plan that parents and children can do together at home. TLT encourages parents participation in different classroom projects, special outings and school community events.
Additionally, TLT encourages open communication through:

• Formal individual parent-teacher conferences held twice a year to provide formal discussion of each child’s progress.
• Classroom WhatsApp Groups (This groups are created for each school year to share classroom’s pictures, videos, artwork, special events, important information and answering to relevant questions to the group)
• Friday’s homework
• Student portfolio (each TLT student receives at the end of the school year, a portfolio with work samples, organized by curriculum areas from Sep-June)

A typical day at TLT starts with the arrival of our little ones. Every day in our center is carefully planned to provide children with balanced routines for learning, growing and having fun. Group activities are alternated with individual and small group interactions and rest periods to keep everyone engaged and learning.