Our Method and Curriculum
Our teaching methods are based on current research conducted in the field of early childhood education. Our goal is to foster development of fundamental concepts, attitudes, and skills that will put your child in a great position for social and academic successful.
We take best practices from both both play based learning
and more traditional academic teaching
methods that our students love and respond to very positively. Simply put, our kids LOVE
coming to school and are fully engaged and challenged at appropriate levels for their age and ability.
Of course your child needs more than just academics to be successful! That’s why we ensure that your child has stability, nurturing, and genuine love even when they’re away from you. This combination of academics and nurturing will help your child develop positive self-esteem and confidence in all settings.
We focus on a wide variety of early childhood skills that include:
- Socialization
- Hand-eye coordination
- Fine Motor Skills
- Direction following
- Color awareness
- Shape and number recognition
- Language development
- Listening
- Speaking
- Pre-reading and reading skills
- Pre-writing and writing skills
- Basic math and science concepts
- Muscle control
- Manual dexterity
Program Goals
At Hisaya International Preschool
your child will:
- Learn to think for themselves
- Develop self-confidence
- Develop and maintain good listening skills in English
- Develop and maintain good speaking skills in English
- Develop phoneme awareness
- Understand basic concepts of mathematics and science
- Read words and simple sentences using their knowledge of phonics
- Develop a love of books and reading
- Develop physical fitness and have a healthy body through play and stretching
- Learn to respect teachers and classmates
- Learn to co-operate and work as a team
- Have fun being a kid!!
Life at our International Pre-school in Nagoya
* The Complete Resource Book for Preschoolers 2009, by Pam Schiller, Ph. D. (Vice President of Professional Development for the Early Childhood Division at McGraw-Hill Publishers) and Kay Hastings, Ph. D. (Executive Director of Clear Lake Community Lab School in Texas).
