Elementary School
TASIS Dorado provides a holistic, student-centered educational experience, combining excellent teaching, social-emotional learning, and a content-rich curriculum that begins with our full-day PPK program and continues through Grade 5.
Our curriculum blends traditional and innovative approaches, enriched by diverse social and cultural activities. The focus is on developing essential skills, deepening conceptual understanding, and demonstrating knowledge through engaging, hands-on learning.
From pre-kindergarten, students are introduced to coding, robotics, and STEM concepts, through our Innovation Sciences curriculum, expanding in complexity each year. Our MIT Fab Lab and computer science lab provide unique spaces where collaboration and exploration thrive, reinforcing our hands-on approach to learning.
Frequent artistic performances, starting in PPK and continuing through senior year, help students build confidence, develop self-expression, and refine public speaking skills. These opportunities foster self-esteem, enunciation, memorization, and stage presence in a natural, supportive environment.
The elementary experience is further enriched by thematic weeks that celebrate learning across disciplines, including Wellness Week, Communities of the World, Innovative Sciences Week, Week of the Young Child, Spring into Learning, and Young Authors Week.
Grades PPK to Kinder
In 2015, the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS) awarded the TASIS School in Dorado, Puerto Rico, with the Program of Distinction in Early Childhood Education (Grades PPK to 1). TASIS Dorado was the first school in Puerto Rico and the U.S. to receive this recognition. The Early Childhood Education Program of Distinction recognizes schools that demonstrate dedication to early learning through a rich, child-centered philosophy and best practices that focus on exploration, questioning, creativity, social-emotional development, and cognitive skills.
Our full-day academic program uses engaging themes to teach foundational literacy and math skills. Our daily activities are focused on building literacy and math skills through play, small group, and whole class lessons. Students will practice these skills with teacher guidance in hands-on learning centers and smaller groups.
The activities are designed to spark children’s imagination and creativity as they explore new topics and solidify their understanding of important concepts. While working independently or in small groups, students learn valuable social skills like cooperation, friendship building, and following routines.
Our PPK and PK classes feature our signature dual language program, which emphasizes language acquisition in Spanish and English. The goal is to prepare students for more formal Spanish language instruction in Kindergarten while fostering mastery of both languages throughout their TASIS education.
Social-Emotional Learning
Building student character is as important to our mission as building strong academic skills. TASIS Dorado integrates character building through dedicated programs, including community service initiatives, the Responsive Classroom approach for elementary students.
The Social Institute program for upper elementary and secondary students. We also dedicate lessons to teach elementary students about core concepts such as caring, empathy, bravery, and resilience. Seminars on important social-emotional learning topics are provided for students to support good decision-making. Parents are regularly invited to presentations on topics that support healthy and strong families.
Grades First to Fifth
We aim to provide a robust educational foundation while fostering a love of learning. E.D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Curriculum guides our elementary division program. The Next Generation Science and History and Geography topics are supplemented with units of study focused on Puerto Rico’s history and culture. Our English and Spanish Language Arts classes integrate rich content with the fundamentals of the science of reading. Teachers use research-proven, renowned resources to promote students’ growth as readers and writers in both languages. Like all TASIS Schools, we implement the Singapore Math approach, which helps students learn the language of math hands-on as they explore concepts concretely, pictorially, and abstractly. Additionally, in grades 3 to 5, we begin our advanced math class for selected students.