Johnston Tutorial School is a private school dedicated to serving students from all educational backgrounds, including homeschooled and international students. Its purpose is to welcome students who experience learning difficulties and have a hard time complying with the traditionally structured school environment. The non-traditional methods of teaching at Johnston Tutorial School provide unique opportunities for a wide variety of learning styles.
The school’s mission and philosophy is to enhance the students’ learning abilities by tailoring and implementing individualized programs and Individualized Educational Plans to meet the needs of each student. The teaching strategies, programs and curricula, based on the Ontario Curriculum, are structured to meet the student’s learning style, promote individual success and develop self-esteem.
The school offers full day, half day, individual courses and hourly academic programs to students from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 12. The programs offered include, but are not limited to: Special Needs Programs, Physical Education and Health, Drama, Music, Visual Arts, French, Spanish, Summer School Programs and Summer Camps.
The small class sizes at Johnston Tutorial School allow the school to provide regular assessments of academic achievement, behaviour modification, and social skills development while providing an opportunity to foster student independence.
Johnston Tutorial School carefully monitors its students’ academic progress by providing formal written reports three times a year, a mid-term progress report once a year, and a parent/teacher conference once a year. In addition, the school provides an open door policy for parents to visit and inquire about their child’s progress at any time, and accommodates phone discussions about the student’s development as deemed necessary by either parents or teachers
In addition, the school offers before and after school care in a safe and loving environment where students can feel at home while waiting for their parents.
“A Learning Disability is a neurological condition that interferes with a person’s ability to store, process, or produce information. Learning Disabilities can affect one’s ability to read, write, speak, spell, compute math, reason and also affects a person’s attention, memory, coordination, and perceptive social skills and emotional maturity. Although people with Learning Disabilities have average or above average IQ’s their disabilities are evident in academic and social situations.”
•"Over one-quarter of Canadians with Learning Disabilities aged 22 to 29 (28.3%) reported less than a high school certificate as their highest academic achievement, compared to 14.9% in the general population."
•"Young people with Learning Disabilities are 2-3 times more likely to suffer from depression and mental heath issues."
•"The employment rate for individuals with Learning Disabilities is 51%, compared to 89% in the general population."
•"One in ten Canadians has a form of learning disability or 3 million Canadians."
Reference: Learning Disabilities Association of Canada, information@ldac-taac.ca