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From Toddler to Teen
We teach, train and coach young learners, from 3 years to 19 years, for a future of success.
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Our Teachers
Our teachers are specialized in coaching children and their daily interaction with young children brings to life the unique SmartKids approach for learning English as a second language (ESL).
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We invite you to join one of our classes and to see, feel and enjoy our way of teaching English
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About SmartKids and its Special Approach
SmartKids started 18 years ago with pre-school / kindergartens in Vietnam, with a Play-to-Learn© approach of teaching. English is the sole spoken language.
In the mean time thousands of children from some 43 nationalities have happily and successfully passed through our system.
How it all started
With 22 years of international early childhood education and experience, Joke Van Zuijlen, a Dutch pedagogue and linguist, started 18 years go in Vietnam her own early childhood centre. Based on her extensive pedagogic background she merged principles of Reggio Emilia, Steiner and Montessori; to evolve in her own SmartKids approach.
The Child Centered Approach
The child centered approach began its success story with the opening of several SmartKids Pre-schools / Kindergarten. Homelike midsized bright and sense-teasing, enquiry triggering early child care centres, with highly professional foreign teachers running English-Only vertical classes and focussing on the individual child’s development.
Young children entering SmartKids without any basis of English were immersed in a “language bath” amongst other international peers, and would speak in no time English – to the total surprise of their parents.
SmartKids education specialists underpinned that understanding and speaking are essential before starting reading and writing and even essential for the total child’s development. Yet in most other schools, teachers generally only teach a language through reading and writing.
The SmartKids approach allows children to learn to speak and understand English before learning to read and write – just as they would do in their mother tongue.
Even babies can learn English with the SmartKids approach, based on the principles of positive reinforcement and repeated hearing by using songs, rhymes and stories.
The SmartKids approach of teaching English creates a stimulating environment that imitates the natural process of learning a mother tongue. Children love it and don’t even realize they are learning! Lessons are fun and lively, and they stimulate the emotional, physical, creative and intellectual well-being of the young children.
Based on the academic parental needs, SmartKids has, alongside their own developed teaching materials, carefully selected international recognized teaching / study materials to further enhance the English as Second Language (ESL) program.
During the 18 years of SmartKids development, it has developed its own teacher training program as well as a strong pool of special trained teachers to use their exceptional methodology.
