Curriculum & Programs
A Curriculum that Helps Children Excel
At Tutor Time, we believe all children are intelligent. Our Whole Child Education approach focuses on nurturing that innate intelligence through hands-on active learning and opportunities for self-expression and peer relationships.
Our exclusive Tutor Time® LifeSmart™ curriculum is based on the belief that children are intelligent in many different ways. We call these ways "Smarts." Aligned with standards set forth by national accrediting associations, our curriculum helps children expand on their own unique gifts in our eight "Smarts," which are:
- WordSmart: Reading, writing and telling stories
- MathSmart: Logical thinking, patterns and numbers
- BodySmart: Expression through one's body, movement and physical activity
- DesignSmart®: Visualization, building, drawing and design
- MusicSmart: Rhythm, signing and creating music
- NatureSmart®: In tune with physical world and living things
- PeopleSmart: Working in groups, sensitivity to others, leadership
- MeSmart: In touch with personal feelings and thoughts
Our classrooms are arranged with more intention than a typical child-care environment. They include 11 learning centers full of ways for children to explore and investigate all eight of the ways they are smart, and to build problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Tutor Time teachers supplement these experiences with large and small group activities that give children the tools they need to grow and develop into the leaders of tomorrow.
Real results
Tutor Time is one of the few early education providers that conduct formal assessments of its child-care curriculum. Using Galileo -- an online tool developed by Assessment Technology Inc. -- we evaluate the progress of thousands of children enrolled in our programs. Results showed that children attending Tutor Time made substantial gains in their learning and development, and have the educational skills needed for a successful transition into kindergarten. In fact, it showed that in just six months, children in our programs made gains usually expected after a full year.
Classrooms
Special Programs
FUN BUS
Twice a month Tutor Time of Syosset receives a visit from The FUN BUS. The FUN BUS is a climate controlled full sized school bus whose seats have all been removed and walls and floor carpeted and padded. The FUN BUS enhances the learning going on inside the classroom, using a hands-on approach to FITNESS and making it FUN for the young child, boy or girl, rain or shine!
Classes take place right on the bus and it NEVER moves while the children are on it, and the equipment varies week to week depending on our lesson plans and children.
At the end of each session or party we have a “cool down” period, each child receives a stamp or sticker for doing a wonderful job and weather permitting slides out the back on the banana slide!
SENIOR READERS
Every few weeks residents of the Arbors Senior Care Center visit our school and read special books to our children. The children love it and so do the seniors!
MR IRV
Every few weeks professional singer Irv Plastock leads the children and their teachers in a lively
sing-and-dance-along featuring many popular children’s songs.