What is the Discovery Center?
The Discovery Center supports a child’s classroom education to meet and surpass curricular requirements. Each student receiving Discovery support has an individualized program. This setting provides optimal supervision and encouragement for the student. Discovery teachers strive to determine each child’s needs, and address both learning strengths and weaknesses. As one Discovery teacher puts it: “God made them able to learn in a special way, so that’s how we should teach them." In the Discovery Center, we address concerns related to reading, math, written language, and study skills. Because of the individualized attention, Discovery teachers have an impact well beyond the Discovery program. The students’ increased confidence in their abilities impacts all of their academics.
In the Discovery Center, we also offer resource help to students who have struggles, but do not need the intense interventions of an individualized program. When resource help is given, it will be a shorter amount of time in the Center, and they will receive one on one or small group help with the assignments that are given by their classroom teacher. This allows students to ask questions freely, but also gives them immediate feedback on their work, hopefully reducing the number of fix-ups with their assignment.