Exploring Educational Choices
HOME EDUCATION PROGRAM DEFINITIONS
Scholarship funds can be used to pay tuition and fees for programs, courses, or classes offered to home education students. These services must be part of the student’s sequential instruction per the definition of a home education program.
The Home Educator will provide courses and/or activities for home education students that enhance or enrich the student’s learning opportunities
PROGRAM OFFERINGS TO ENHANCE AND ENRICH STUDENT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Courses are structured so that students access general education curriculum. Galovin Solutions Inc. includes core academic areas: Reading and Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies. Other subject areas may be added.
READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS
Galovin Solutions Inc. provides the foundation for strong English Language Arts skills and supports students as they develop into confident readers and efficient writers across every content area. Students continuously develop and practice listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The program consists of a combination of elements from different evidenced based strategies that emphasizes the marks of an organized literacy program: oral language development, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
MATHEMATICS
The mathematics program offers balanced instruction through hands-on activities, games, fact practice, and daily routines. Students connect mathematical concepts to real world situations with an emphasis on problem solving, critical thinking and exploration of multiple strategies. We provide repeated exposure to mathematical concepts and skills to increase mastery.
SCIENCE
The science program provides lessons in science, physical science, earth science, STEM Activities, critical thinking.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Emphasis is placed on the important role that people, places and history play as they develop and change over time. Through a project-based approach, students share and learn about themselves, their families, school, local, national and global communities. Studies include student map study skills, geography, American history, world cultures, world history.
Bridges
The Bridges program is a center-based program for children ages 3 to 6 years old. The primary goal is to help your child improve upon their communication, social interaction, self-regulation, and behaviors while bridging age-appropriate academic skills through structured play and by creating safe learning environments. A primary learner’s first experience with school should ignite a love for lifelong learning through their natural curiosities. The children participate in predetermined structured activities each day that are based upon the goals defined in their personal education program
Expeditions
The Expeditions program follows a schedule that includes opportunities for academics, daily living skills, and leisure. Academics and related services may be delivered in highly structured situations with a rich ratio of staff to students or in a naturalistic or generalized situation, depending on the needs of the students. Expeditions also addresses identifying and interpreting social cues, perspective taking, understanding emotions and feelings, self-esteem and working collaboratively with others.
Personalization
Navigations
While all children are developing their executive function, some children have notable and specific weaknesses. Regardless of how bright these students are, they struggle to do schoolwork and successfully manage tasks. That’s where a skilled and master teacher or learning specialist can assist with targeted, explicit instruction, or coaching while completing their homeschool program.
Successful Schooling programs can be designed and delivered in many different ways depending on the student’s age, academic performance, social, emotional and adaptive functioning skills interests, passions and settings. The programs provide complementary coursework and/or activities for home education students that enhance or enrich the child’s learning opportunities. To promote lifelong success, the program combines center-based programming and can include other services such as ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), OT (Occupational Therapy), SP (Speech) and Adapted Physical Education.
Tuition includes technology, curriculum, books, and materials. Tuition also includes assessments, IEP consultation and Home Education Compliance preparation assistance such as portfolio management and annual evaluations. Some field trips and community outings are included.