Private School
Back to Basics provides a full-time school day, offering four core curriculum courses of math, English/language arts, social studies and science. Electives include such foreign languages as Japanese, German, Spanish, French, art, business, sociology, psychology, study skills, computer literacy and many other subjects. Courses are held at our center in Wilmington, Delaware and are all taught 1-on-1.
We work to determine your child’s strengths and non-strengths. We foster a nurturing environment where children can grow and walk in their strengths, and understand the benefit of interdependence as they work with instructors in areas of non-strength.
Students stay with us for one to three consecutive years, at which time they merge into a more traditional school setting or graduate from our school.
- Alternative teaching and testing methods to match learning styles
- Experienced, degreed, caring instructors
- Confidence boosting and success coaching
- One-on-one setting
- Four core curriculum subjects, and nearly endless electives to choose from
As seen in the Community News, June 2007
Is Wilmington’s Back to Basics Learning Dynamics school still one of the area’s best kept secrets? Just listen to what some of the successful students of this full-service educational facility are saying, and you’ll soon see that the secret won’t be one much longer.
There are two major components to what Back to Basics calls its state-approved Alternative Schooling Option.
“The Bridge Program provides a full time school day, offering four core curriculum courses of math, English/language arts, social studies and science,” says Beverly Stewart, M.Ed., the founder of Back to Basics Learning Dynamics.
“Electives may include foreign language, art, business, study skills, computer literacy and other subjects. The Bridge Program is structured to provide your child both one-on-one instruction with school tutors, as well as group interaction involving small class sizes of between two and five students, four days per week, age and grade appropriate.”
The other major component is the Back to Basics Home Schooling option.
“Our Home Schooling option includes a one-on-one learning environment, but with a team of instructors assigned to your child,” says Stewart. “Flexible scheduling, choice of location, along with full or part-time options are all available.”
“We are staffed for a maximum of 20 students for any school year, and we are quickly approaching that maximum now,” Stewart explains. Parents realize that “one size does not fit all” when it comes to traditional schooling. And many of Back to Basics grads go on to college.
So what are parents and students saying about the Back to Basics schooling experience?
Ken and Karen Roth recently wrote Beverly saying that “Nothing seemed to help until we started at Back to Basics with their full-time home schooling program. The one-on-one teacher to student ratio along with the customized study schedule is working. After one marking period our daughter now has an overall grade point average of 90. She does not resist getting up in the morning to go to school and everyday is a good day. Her teachers are excellent. The administration and teachers at Back to Basics are to be commended for the way they truly leave no student behind.”
Stewart has more than 27 years of educational experience. In addition to the Bridge and Home Schooling programs, Back to Basics offers tutoring in over 50 subjects, academic and intelligence testing, contract services to districts, individual schools, and the government’ translating and interpreting serviced, and operates a state-approved summer school. Educational consulting services for parents are also available. “We offer a wide range of educational services tailored to meet the specific needs of your child. Whether it be academic preparation requiring close, hands-on interaction, developing improved self-esteem skills, or providing the kind of positive reinforcement that will allow your child to move on to the next challenge, we have the experience and training to make an immediate impact on your child’s educational success.”
Back to Basics is not restricted to young learners in need of alternative learning methods. Judy Harper wrote Beverly, “Back to Basics had a real challenge in teaching me a foreign language. As a University of Delaware student in her mid sixties, they enabled me to receive a B+ each semester by providing excellent instruction. They listen to your needs concerning the time and place that is best for you to learn; they act on that need to match you with an excellent instructor and then, to keep their standards high, they ask for your feedback. Whether a person is six or sixty, I am confident that Back to Basics will make it enjoyable to learn.”
Back to Basics Learning Dynamics will also instruct in your home, school, or office.
Allow us to help. Call us at (302) 594-0754.
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