The Vancouver Learning Centre
is the "Village" it takes
to get the very best outcome
for each learner.
The VLC is a Learning Centre, not a school. Click here for clarity.

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.
The VLC is a Learning Centre, not a school. See here for clarity.

Programs

Language Box Techniques: Procedures to Enhance Word Learning, to Enrich Vocabulary, and to Promote Oral and Written Comprehension

These are a set of special procedures that emerge from a program created by Dr. Geraldine Schwartz to enhance precise learning of word meaning. They include:

  • Word Harvest – collection and study of unfamiliar vocabulary embedded in the content materials
  • Word Book/Bank – a technique for collecting and learning to use new vocabulary
  • Dot Technique – a method to identify words where knowing the word meaning illuminates the meaning of the content being studied.
  • Colour Coding for Spelling – a method created by Dr. Geraldine Schwartz to use a focused visual processing procedure to learn correct spelling