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Grades & Supplies News & Events
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Jamaica ProgramsEducational Program: Because of Jamaica's limited size and teaching staff, children can be in a variety of educational settings including single grade classrooms, combination classrooms or multi-age classrooms. These rooms vary each year according to the needs of students, projected population, staff resources and action plan goals set by the School Accountability Committee. Itinerant Services include
Mild/Moderate Needs, Speech/Language, Counseling, Occupational Therapy,
Physical Therapy, and Adaptive P.E.
Toyota
Families in Schools: The
Toyota
Families in Schools (TFS) concept builds on
the traditional model of family literacy that has focused on pre-school
and early childhood education and expands it to work with families who
have children in kindergarten through the fifth grade.
The four components of family literacy “Children’s Education,
Adult Education, Parent Time, and Parent and Child Together (PACT)
Time” are further developed to work within a traditional elementary
school setting. The
premise behind the project is to bring parents or primary caregivers to
school with their children and give them the basic skills they need to
be actively involved with their children’s education.
In this case, parents learn to speak, read and write in English.
They also learn about community resources available to them.
School staff teaches them about their curriculum, discipline
plans and child development. Both
parents and school staff become familiar and comfortable with one
another. Parents help their
children in the classroom weekly, and are guided to ensure they have the
skills they will need to do classroom activities successfully.
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