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

Worldview: A Program to Teach the Underlying Architecture of Knowledge in the Social Sciences, Sciences and Humanities

This is a procedure for learning about the history, geography and science that underlies successful performance in Social Studies and Science, or that takes the place of these subjects in specially designed programs for youth and young adults. We created this program because we find that many of our students have a very limited understanding of what is going on in the larger world around them. They need to learn to see the big picture and develop an appreciation for the whole story about the world in which they live.

The Worldview program becomes the underlying architecture for general knowledge. Special versions are created for young children and gifted children, as well as children with learning disabilities, who have missed the basic social studies and science curriculum from /Grade 3 to their current grade.

The Worldview program is also then specifically connected to their classroom social studies and science programs so that students learn to make these connections themselves as the grades progress.

Finally, when appropriate, using the Usborne system the Worldview is connected to 800 safe Internet sites for research purposes or to deepen knowledge of a particular topic, thus putting a personal resource library and lessons of how to use it in the hands of each learner. This process enriches the education of each learner in an efficient and exciting manner.