Our Philosophy on Learning.
My Place To Be Education Center's philosophy is that each child is a
unique individual and is highly respected as such. We believe that every child must
first achieve freedom through order, as well as self-discipline, each within a warm,
loving atmosphere. These skills provide the basis that the child needs to achieve his
or her goals. My Place To Be School is committed to an education
that serves the whole child and incorporates a wide array of experiences designed
to encourage learning across each area: cognitive, social, emotional, ethical, and
physical.
Educational Philosophy
My Place To Be’s, program, educational philosophy is to look at every child as
an individual. We will evaluate their current academic levels and build upon that
foundation, and increase achievement at developmentally appropriate rates and
levels. Students and staff will target individualized sensory, social, emotional and
educational goals and develop a personalized plan toward optimum success. My
Place To Be believes that to achieving academic success is a cooperative
venture between students, teachers, support staff and the family.
We will use a multi-sensory approach to learning incorporating sensory and
movement into our classroom, including the Orton-Gillingham Approach to reading, which
has been in use since the 1930’s. An intensive, sequential phonics-based system
teaches the basics of word formation before whole meanings. The method
accommodates and utilizes the three learning modalities, or pathways, through
which people learn—visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Unlike some scripted and rigid reading programs, the Orton-Gillingham Approach is a system that allows for
flexibility, utilizing a more organic way of learning for students who learn auditory,
visually and kinetically .
