Creative Learning Academy Private Limited

Introduction

Creative Learning Academy, formerly known as Voice Works Learning Centre was setup in October 2005 by Ms Dorothy Olga Schooling, Teacher of English Language & Literature (MOE) since 1988. Dorothy is the founder of Voice Works, an MOE recognized and approved English Language and Enrichment Course provider since 1996.

The core mission of our Centre is to provide Tuition for Weak & Borderline Students, to enable them to have a level playing field. Currently our Centre is currently run by Mrs Marylene Oen Gomes, Teacher of English Language (MOE) since 1986.

Besides Academic skills and essential study skills like Note-taking, Mnemonics, Visual Mind-mapping, Brainstorming and Time management to help your children, prepare for the year-end examinations, CLA also conducts classes and workshops on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship to enable your children to have the opportunity to acquire new 21st Century skill sets, to enable them to become independent learners who are motivated and self-confident students responsible for their own learning and Life.

With this in mind, we use creative teachers to excite and teach them. Our centre is wifi enabled with computers that we use, to help in the child's understanding of a subject. We also use educational games to help children build vocabulary and Math times table. Playing Educational games like Scrabble, Frog, Rush hour etc is fun. Through play, active learning takes place and this helps children to learn and remember. Active learning also involves hands-on activities that we occasionally introduce to children to challenge and cultivate critical thinking skills.

Students must do more than just listen: They must read, write, discuss, or be engaged in solving problems. It relates to the three learning domains referred to as knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA), and that this taxonomy of learning behaviours can be thought of as "the goals of the learning process" (Bloom, 1956). In particular, students must engage in such higher-order thinking tasks as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Active learning engages students in two aspects – doing things and thinking about the things they are doing (Bonwell and Eison, 1991).

As such, our Centre has aligned ourselves with well-known institution like the Lyles Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, California State University, Fresno and its creativity and innovation programmes like Kids Invent!

Through these Workshops and Camps, CLA introduces your children to Creative thinking, Critical thinking & Entrepreneurial skills, thus enabling them to become College Ready, Career Ready and Citizenship Ready. Thereby giving your children, an “UNFAIR” advantage in life and School.

CLA’s philosophy can be summed up with a quote by Albert Einstein.

“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” …because when we teach your children to fish, they eat for a lifetime and not just for one day.