Academie Lavalloise

• Play-based
• Montessori
• Waldorf
• Reggio Emilia
• Academic

Academic-based preschools and Kindergartens are the most structured of the different types, and have a strong emphasis on math and reading readiness skills. These programs aim to expose children to what early-elementary school is like. While time is still allotted to free play, much of the day is built around explicit lessons guided by the teacher. Classrooms often resemble play-based ones (with different stations set up around the room), but at an Academic program the teacher leads students through the stations directly, and ties these activities to a whole-class lesson or theme.

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What Academie Lavalloise says: We offer you a warm environment where your child can fully develop both academically and socially. Our educational project centered on respect and discipline as well as our various educational activities will help your child achieve his goals and even surpass himself. We work constantly with parents to provide the best possible support to the child. Student success as well as parents' expectations are always at the heart of our concerns. Our motivated and dedicated teachers look forward to working with your child.

• Rigorous
• Supportive

A school with a “rigorous” academic culture places a high value on academic performance, and expects their students to do the same. This does not mean the school is uncaring, unsupportive, or non-responsive -- far from it. A school can have a rigorous academic culture and still provide excellent individual support. It does mean, however, the school places a particular emphasis on performance -- seeking the best students and challenging them to the fullest extent -- relative to a normal baseline. High expectations and standards – and a challenging yet rewarding curriculum – are the common themes here. Keep in mind this classification is more relevant for the older grades: few Kindergarten classrooms, for example, would be called “rigorous”.

What Academie Lavalloise says: The school's emulation system creates a positive atmosphere in the school and the students are motivated to behave well in class and listen carefully to the instructions. We want a peaceful atmosphere within the school. This system works according to the colors of the road code: green, yellow and red. It rewards good behavior and gives logical consequences to inadequate behavior. We participate annually in collaboration with the Center de Bénévolat de Laval. These activities raise students' awareness of the world around them. Giving to others is a value that we convey in our teaching.

What Academie Lavalloise says: This information is not currently available.

No support

Academie Lavalloise offers no/limited support for students with learning difficulties or special needs.

• Academic Support:

  Support Type	= offered
  Learning strategy and study counselling; habit formation
  Extra support and minor accommodations for children experiencing subclinical difficulties

• Mild but clinically diagnosed ADHD

  Support Type	= offered
  Accommodations Formal adjustments are made to the delivery of lessons to help mitigate the learning difficulty or exceptionality. The underlying content and expectations remain unchanged with accommodations, however. (Example: allowing a student to write tests in a quieter room).
  Modifications The underlying content and expectations are modified and/or simplified for the sake of the student. (Examples: allowing student to use a calculator on a test when other students can't; allowing students to bring word-banks or "cheat sheets" into certain tests, etc)
  Extra support Research-based therapeutic measures that target and ameliorate the underlying weakness.

• Support for moderate-to-severe special needs:

  Special needs	Accomodations Formal adjustments are made to the delivery of lessons to help mitigate the learning difficulty or exceptionality. The underlying content and expectations remain unchanged with accommodations, however. (Example: allowing a student to write tests in a quieter room).	Modifications The underlying content and expectations are modified and/or simplified for the sake of the student. (Examples: allowing student to use a calculator on a test when other students can’t; allowing students to bring word-banks or “cheat sheets” into certain tests, etc)	Remediation Research-based therapeutic measures that target and ameliorate the underlying weakness.
  ADHD (moderate to severe)
  Learning disabilities
  Dyslexia (Language-Based Learning Disability)
  Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
  Dyscalculia
  Dysgraphia
  Language Processing Disorder
  Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NLD)
  Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit
  Developmental
  Autism
  Asperger's Syndrome
  Down syndrome
  Intellectual disability
  Williams syndrome
  Behavioral and Emotional
  Troubled behaviour / troubled teens
  Clinical Depression
  Clinical anxiety
  Suicidal thoughts
  Drug and alcohol abuse
  Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  Physical
  Multiple sclerosis
  Cerebral palsy
  Muscular dystrophy
  Spina Bifida
  Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder)
  Blindness
  Deafness
  Cystic Fibrosis
  Multiple physical

• Forms of support delivery:

  Support Type	= offered
  A regular class with indirect support Students remain in a regular classroom for the whole day; the teacher receives special training in accommodating special needs and/or learning disabled students
  A regular class with resource assistance Students remain in a regular classroom for the whole day, and periodically receive break-out support (individually or in small groups) within the classroom from a qualified special education teacher.
  A regular class with withdrawal assistance Students remain in a regular classroom for most of the day, but are pulled out for extra support from a qualified special education teacher.
  A special education class with partial integration Students are placed in a separate special education class, but are strategically integrated into a regular classroom for certain periods.
  A full-time special education class Students are placed in a separate special education class.

• Additional Support:

  Support Type	= offered
  Social skills programs
  Occupational therapy
  Psychotherapy
  Speech-language therapy