TREE OF LEARNING
Our trademark Tree of Learning outlines the hierarchical skills of learning that allow your child to grow and succeed. From the roots to the fruits - we build a solid foundation for your child's academic future.
Processing Skills
Processing skills are essential to all learning, and they involve the understanding of, integration of, and reaction to presented information.
Cognitive Skills
Cognitive skills develop throughout the lifespan and are critical to all future learning.
Executive Function Skills
Executive Function Skills are the neurocognitive regulation skills that make it possible for an individual to sustain attention, meet goals, retain information, regulate impulses, avoid distraction, tolerate frustration, consider the consequences of different choices, integrate past experiences, and plan.
Tool Skills
Tool skills are the foundational academic skills that are necessary to all higher content learning, and they are acquired through explicit instruction and/or engagement and exposure.
Domain-Specific Skills
Domain- specific skills rely on the application of these tool skills within certain content areas.
TREE OF LEARNING
DOMAIN SKILLS
CHEMISTRY
HISTORY
ALGEBRA
LITERATURE
BIOLOGY
TOOL SKILLS
READING/SPELLING
READING COMPREHENSION
READING VOCABULARY
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
MATHEMATICS
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
INHIBITION
WORKING MEMORY
COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY
COGNITION
OVERALL COGNITION
FLUID REASONING
COMPREHENSION/KNOWLEDGE
QUANTITATIVE REASONING
ATTENTION
MEMORY SYSTEMS
ORAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
PHONOLOGICAL/ AUDITORY
VISUAL PROCESSING
PROCESSING SPEED