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Creating independent
THINKERS
The Primary and Lower School nurtures students’ innate abilities through a variety of learning activities, hands-on experiences,
and developmentally-appropriate practices. Throughout the years, students develop their social-emotional and academic skills through direct instruction and thoughtful practice. PreK through fourth grade classrooms at Gulliver are joyful places of learning where students collaborate with peers, creatively solve problems, share their thinking with others, and make connections to the content to enhance the learning for everyone.
Following standards for each content area, students explore
and practice skills to gain fluency in order to tackle problems in mathematics, language arts, social studies, science and world languages. Whenever possible, core content areas are interwoven with special area classes to enhance and extend learning opportunities; students apply their knowledge to answer real-world questions.
In Sr.K, through third grade, Gulliver has adopted the Reading Workshop from Columbia University’s Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. The workshop’s mission is to help children become avid and skilled readers, through research, curriculum development, and collaboration. Developed using state-of-the-art tools and methods for teaching reading, there are performance assessments and learning progressions to accelerate progress, and for literacy-rich content-area instruction.
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