At V.I.K. Academy, we can provide a personalized Calgary preschool experience in bright and beautiful large classrooms while maintaining small group size.
Our ProgramPhilosophy
V.I.K. Academy provides Calgary preschool and kindergarten aged children with developmentally appropriate activities that supports their quest towards independence, fuel their curiosity, encourage creative thinking, and contribute to their individual growth. It's a Calgary preschool with a difference.
Early Childhood Education plays an important role in preparing young children for their upcoming academic journey. At V.I.K., we believe that early daycare experience should be tailored around children's interest, be age appropriate, and founded on sound up-to-date research. Our Calgary preschool revolves around these tenets.
At V.I.K. Academy, we believe that quality certified educators are essential. Our staff members are qualified, passionate, creative, talented, experienced, bilingual educators.
Our team is led by an experienced Master’s Level teacher who specializes in 21st Century Learning in the French Immersion Classrooms in Alberta. This specialization allows us to provide a Calgary preschool with a unique focus.
Over the years, Alberta has seen group size slowly increase and reach such sizes that it has become challenging for teachers to manage their duties. In Calgary, Kindergarten classes can easily reach 25 or more, while the Albert Education recommendation is of 17 for grades K-3. We understand that this translate into a much larger work load for teacher, but how does it affect children?
For one, smaller class sizes create an environment where it is easier for teachers to get to know their students, and to develop a good relationship with them. Furthermore, it allows teachers to respond sooner to...
August 16, 2016
Montessori: inspiration of the 21st Century Learning Philosophy
In the early 1900’s, Maria Montessori presented her innovative approach to education which would later become an inspiration in the reshaping of learning environments.
At the time, education was very much a passive experience where learners were expected to sit for hours, had no say on their learning experience, and were doing repetitive tasks without the expectation of developing a relationship with their teacher. Teachers were authoritarians and students feared them. The Montessori approach greatly helped breaking the mold of education as it was then known. The approach promoted, among...
