The Service
The core of the SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace approach incorporates the SpiritedKidZ and their family’s priorities and preferences.
At the SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace, we offer an environment that is conducive to learning and growing at the SpiritedKidZ rhythm. The learners are not bound to an academic year and are given the opportunity to study at their own pace to achieve the outcomes.
The LearnsPace gives the SpiritedKidZ the opportunity for spontaneous play and self-regulation when required. A dedicated area is designed for inner exploration when feelings and behaviour become overwhelming. SpiritedKidZ are given the time to explore and think on their own. Once they figure out things on their own, for their own purposes, they literally own that knowledge and the educators can build on it.
Providing academic meaningful participation
The LearnsPace is an environment allowing for one-on-one tuition. We also provide for inclusion experiences and meaningful participation, both academically and socially, in appropriate grade-level mainstream education settings and the community at large. The exchange program with mainstream schools allows the SpiritedKidZ to interact, presently, during art, music and drama lessons taking place at the mainstream schools.
Expanding the SpiritedKidZ' social networks
Volunteers, adults and children, are welcomed at the SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace to share their passions and talents with the SpiritedKidZ. These interactions grow into nurturing relationships and act as a trampoline into the real world, taking the SpiritedKidZ, and their families, out of sometimes isolating circumstances.
The SpiritedKidZ learn with and from each other and contribute, in their own special ways, to the education of all.
Ensuring educational accountability
The SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace follows the National Curriculum and adapted an international curriculum recognized by SA Department of Education. The curriculum ACE contains ongoing built-in progress tracking. This approach matches with our ongoing evaluation of small achievable goals. ACE is a Christian program with a thematic approach whereby series of readings, projects and field trips are designed to build on a particular theme and use it to address several subject areas at once.
The cornerstone of the SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace methodology is the IDP, the Individual Development Plan aimed at measuring and tracking the overall progress of the SpiritedKidZ. This “living” document outlines the small achievable goals for a specific period in different areas of development, on which the educators will be focusing to ensure quantifiable progress. The IDP is a progress report for the families and a guiding tool for adjustments and decision-making. It documents the effective instructions and intervention strategies to reach the proposed goals.
The IDP covers the goals related to the education and the physical development of the SpiritedKidZ.
Elements of the Montessori approach are integrated as it meets the sensorial learning needs of the SpiritedKidZ. The key inspiration is that the best way to teach is by example, and one of the best ways to learn is by doing.
The SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace offers training services to parents and facilitators willing to tutor within our environment or another special education environment. For the families who wish to employ a SACE registered and qualified preparatory teach, we offer a list of candidates. Read more The SpiritedKidZ Family 3
The SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace provides ongoing opportunities for continuing education for professionals and parents in a variety of formats. The content and process of continuing educational activities is responsive to the needs and preferences of our SpiritedKidZ, our educators and families.
Supporting the SpiritedKidZ family
The Families Forum provides regular opportunities for family members to meet with our educators, professional members of our network, or invited speakers about specific topics of immediate or future relevance to their child. The SpiritedKidZ LearnsPace invites experts from relevant fields to provide consultation, services and/or training for our educators, families and the special needs community.