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The Academic Program of Ideal Education School is for certain students with special needs. It strives for excellence and follows the present Canadian curriculum in Ontario for grades Kindergarten to Grade 7. Students in this program use the same course materials for English Language, Mathematics, Science, and Health as the Canadian students; Social Studies is taught from a Kuwaiti/Arabic perspective.
The department includes 4 classrooms, one for English Language Arts and Social Studies, one for Mathematics and Art, one for Science and Health, and one for Arabic and Quran. Students are not given an Individual Education Program (I.E.P.) for these subjects. Classes are in session from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. every day. The students move throughout the four classrooms according to their grade schedules. Those students who require therapy services, receive these services at the end of the school day.
The Academic Program is divided into three terms, each one ending with a percentage/letter grade report card. At the beginning of every week, homeroom teachers staple outlines into student communication books detailing what will be taught in each subject that week, and what daily homework assignments will be required.
After completion of grade 3 and grade 6, students in this program challenge the Canadian Standard Exams for Reading, Comprehension, Writing, Mathematics and Science (mandatory for all students in Canada). These are sent to Canada for marking.
Ideal Education School offers the following support services for
those selected into the Academic Program:
Small class sizes
Excellent student-teacher
ratio
Word-processing for
those students with fine-motor difficulties.
Not all students with special needs can meet the clearly-defined
expectations Ideal Education School has set down for the Academic Program. In
order to succeed academically, students with special needs should:
have at least
average visual perception and average visual discrimination skills
have good memory skills (visual
and auditory)
be able to retrieve information
from long term memory in a reasonable amount of time
be able to attend to instruction
well in small group situations, with the aid of teaching assistants
be able to comprehend basic
concepts and everyday life experiences
be able to organize thoughts
and ideas
be able to independently express
ideas and answer questions orally and on paper in a reasonable amount of time
be able to acquire a good
English vocabulary base
be able to retell accurately
(verbally and in writing/typing)
be able to describe pictures/events
verbally and in writing/typing in a reasonable amount of time
be able to categorize
be able to sequence sentences,
and story events
be able to transfer knowledge
learned in one subject to another
be energetic and have endurance;
classes are 1 hour and the children move between classrooms throughout the day
be adaptable
possess abstract thinking
skills
be able to predict and inference
Education Department
The emphasis of classes in this department is mainly on developing reading, writing, speech, attention, and cognitive skills to a level where students have a possibility of succeeding at an academic KG2 level. Each student follows an I.E.P. Classes include:
- students with hearing impairments - specialized teachers teach
students communication, social, behavior, reading and writing skills using a
universal Sign Language Program.
- students with physical disabilities - class teachers work very closely with
occupational, physio, and speech therapists to develop fine motor, gross motor
and speech skills; students exit more often for special services.
- students with other developmental delays - class teachers develop Behavior
Modification Programs for students with Adhd, Add, and autism.