The Educational Programming at Vanguard Landing while being varied and ever-evolving and quite robust, will be based on all of the different learning styles. Each person learns things in various ways and we embrace all of them and the way that they learn! While earning her degree in Education, Our Founder and Executive Director learned about learning styles and offering thematic instruction as well as Howard Gardner and his Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Howard Gardner’s Theory states that each person is smart in one or more different ways.
The basis of our educational programming will encompass all of this which is indicative of our Mission that every person has individual interests and ways of doing things and each person should have lots of choices on what they want to learn about!
The Goals of Vanguard Landing’s Programming are to:
- Enhance participants’ skill levels
- Support Lifelong Learning
- Enable increased participation in all other programs.
- Provide and support real-world learning and application in life and adaptive skills.
- Focus on the individual needs of each participant by differentiating, modifying, and accommodating as needed.
- Work with other programs to generalize and maintain skills.
- Develop educational opportunities focused on areas of interest.
A sampling of our programs will offer classes on a rotating schedule such as:
- Reading Poetry
- Creative Writing
- Games
- Money Management
- Horticulture
- Fishing
- Health/Hygiene
- Bible Study
- Social Skills
- Art
- Painting
- Photography
- Ceramics
- History
- Choir
- Glee Club
- Theatre
- Yoga/Stretching
- Animal Care
- Machines
- Weight Training
- Zumba
- Dancing
- Biking
- Fitness
- Sports
- Videography
- Robotics
- Bird-Watching
- Stamping
- Gardening
- Woodworking
- Cooking
- Crafting
- Candymaking
- Cake Decorating
- Origami
- Magic Tricks
- Animals
- Jewelry Making
- Legos
- Laundry Skills
- Relationships
- Environment
- Recycling/Reusing
- Work Habits
- Professionalism
- Interviewing Skills
- Safty
- Job Skills
- Nutrition/Health
- Card Making
- Scrapbooking
- Graphics Design
- Keyboarding
- Websites
- Internet Safety
- Landscaping
- Lawn Care
- First Aid
- Water Safety
- Special Events
- Flower Arranging
- 3D Printing
- Sign Language
- Metal Detecting
- Newsletters
- Printing/Collating
- Astronomy
- Comic