The Vancouver Learning Centre
is the "Village" it takes
to get the very best outcome
for each learner.

The VLC is not a school but a Specialist Learning Centre. The VLC delivers a team-based process. A teaching captain is assigned to oversee the program delivery and to be the main contact with the parents who then become an integrated part of the team. Schools can then be involved as appropriate.

In the case of home schooling, the curriculum, homework tasks, testing, and the program to earn credentials and provide oversight to the curriculum is up to the distance education school. This becomes the learner’s school and the VLC will work collaboratively with the school’s contact person and will actively address all IEPs or special needs developed by that school.

Whether the student attends on site at VLC and remains as part of a class or works with a distance education school, the VLC becomes the specialist provider of one to one teaching based on the special needs of the learner in collaboration with the learner’s parents and the contact person assigned by the school.

The Vancouver Learning Centre
is the "Village" it takes
to get the very best outcome
for each learner.

Sometimes, a learner is not able to master critical course content delivered at the pace and in the manner of classroom instruction. This does not mean this content subject matter cannot be mastered.

Using BC citizen’s access to correspondence courses in each subject at both high school and university and dynamic one-to-one teaching, using the tools and processes described above, VLC teachers specializing in the subject’s content teach the correspondence courses one-to-one.

The student then completes the practice exercises, sometimes with supervision, and independently prepares the “send in” exercises to a marker who provides an expert at-a-distance evaluation of the student’s work.

Students taught in this way usually achieve high grades that can become part of their transcript as they prepare and apply for post-secondary positions.

We also teach college level correspondence courses available through Thompson Rivers University (TRU) BC’s distance education system.