Children’s Learning Center
Contact Nos: 7050000/4337331 local 3171
In 1999, Riverside College opened the Children’s Learning Center (CLC) whose aim is to provide top quality education for children to promote their cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional development.
Riverside College’s expansion to early childhood education is closely linked to the success of the school’s Bachelor’s degree program in Psychology, major in Special Education. Students in this course acquire vital hands-on training at the Learning Center, and upon graduation, they may return to become faculty members of the Learning Center. Today, all the teachers and teaching assistants at the Learning Center are graduates of the four-year course. This clear focus on scientific teaching methods is the core competence of the Children’s Learning Center.
Currently, the Children’s Learning Center has two programs, The Knowledge Camp (Early Childhood Education) and Early Intervention and Stimulation (Special Education).
The Professional Team
Dr. Maria Carolina Ramos-Alejano, MD
DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICIAN
Prof. O B. Dañocup
SPECIAL EDUCATION CONSULTANT
Dr. Ervie Emelda S. Gallespen
CHILDREN’S Learning Center Director
Juvi Ann G. Geroche
TEACHER-IN-CHARGE
Clorie C. Emilio
Cheryl Mae P. Gardose
Ma. Carnie Fe M. Legaspi
ECE and SPED TEACHERS
Rechee A. Arana
TEACHER ASSISTANT
Early Childhood Education Program:
The Knowledge Camp
The Knowledge Camp is an early childhood education program that uses a personality-molding approach developed by the Children’s Learning Center of Riverside College. It is designed to equip children with proper social conduct and academic proficiency needed to meet the needs of preschool children in the regular school set-up.
Children always have fun when they go camping. To encourage learning through fun and games, The Knowledge Camp interprets its curriculum in a camp-site environment. Subjects are taught using animals, plants, and things found in nature as teaching tools. This gives the child an early start at environmental appreciation.
The Knowledge Camp has three age levels:
Explorers
Toddler Group (ages 2-3)
Class Schedule: 10:00 – 11:30am
In the early formative years of their lives, Explorers are allowed to be sensible, to explore the environment through their senses, engaging in rich stimulating play activities and experiences. This lays the foundation for their holistic development, enabling young minds to begin making sense of the world around them.
Discoverers
Nursery Group (ages 3-4)
Class Schedule: 9:00 – 11:30am
Discoverers are provided a safe, nurturing, and loving environment where teachers and parents collaborate in a supportive learning program that encourages the social, emotional, intellectual, and physical growth of children. A child's individuality and creativity are encouraged through structured play, forming the backbone for a life of exciting discoveries.
Every day promises discovery in many fields. Discoverers engage in music, movement, arts and crafts, computer knowledge, science, and of course, nature. Children at this level are also taught early reading and math readiness skills, as well as independence and social skills that will help build self-esteem.
The Adventurers
Kinder Group (ages 4-5)
Class Schedule: 8:30– 11:30am
Packed with knowledge explored and discovered at an earlier age, Adventurers are challenged to begin their little journeys into the real world as Inquirers, Thinkers, Risk-Takers, and Communicators who are open-minded, caring, well-balanced, and knowledgeable.
Adventurers are able to:
- use critical and creative thinking skills to seek solutions and solve problems
- communicate both verbally and non-verbally in a range of situations using a variety of media, including technology
- try out new ideas or make mistakes from which they acquire a widening range of concepts
- understand and support each other
- share emotions
- embrace new ideas or points of view, and acknowledge diversity in opinions, culture, and beliefs
- reflect on their actions and offer opinion about how they may do things differently in the future.
These qualities combine into a positive attitude towards all aspects of school life.
Special Education (SPED) program:
Early Intervention and Stimulation
Early intervention and stimulation is a Special Education (SPED) program scientifically designed to aid the growth and development of children diagnosed to be at risk of developing handicapping conditions or other special needs that may affect their later development.
To alleviate existing developmental problems and provide support and assistance to families of children with special needs, the following are also included in the SPED Program:
- Holistic Assessment
- Parent Education
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Summer Workshop
- Tutorials
Small class sessions are prepared to meet individual needs to develop:
- Communicative language
- Socialization and Play
- Self-Help skills
- Socially acceptable behaviors
- Pre-Academic skills
