Vision
PHILOSOPHY
The primary objective of the program is to provide a learning environment that supports children and families. The family is the first and most significant influence in the growth and development of the child. We view our role as partners with you in supporting the growth and learning process of your child from home to school.
Home of Life “Just For You” and HLCDC Development are committed to providing the very best in infant/toddler preschool/school age education. We have chosen to utilize the High Scope Curriculum in assisting us in meeting the needs of the individual infant/toddler/preschooler special abilities, interest, and experiences on their developmental level. The High Scope curriculum will allow us to see your child as individual and plan activities to assist and foster their learning. The caregiver and the teachers will further and plan activities to assist and foster their learning. The caregiver and the teachers will further enhance your child’s knowledge by interacting with the child in such a way that the child’s thinking skills and abilities will be challenged as well as extended. In addition to weekly observations, annual screening, observational assessments, collection of child’s work, parent’s conferences and home visits. Our goal is to give each individual child’s a sound appropriate education.
The High Scope Curriculum adheres to the “total child” approach. The curriculum is based on the child’s development ideas of Jean Piaget, and observing studies of traditional nursery schools. The curriculum is structured to support children’s development by offering children opportunities, within a daily routine, that encourage work and play independently, making choices, pursuing interests and problem solving.
At Home of Life “Just For You” & HLCDC Development II, we view the children as active learners who learn best from activities they plan and carry out themselves.
The preschooler’s daily routine is focused around: Plan-Do-Review The children plan what they are going to work with and/or do during self-selected activity time. The children than carry out their plans. They come together in their individual teacher group and talk about what they did doing their planning time. The teacher follows up on the activities the children have been engaged in by recalling what they did during work time. The children come together choosing between 2 small group activities. Following by large group outdoor time and ending their morning with circle and story telling. The afternoons are filled with exciting activities such as music rhyme, finger plays, singing, creative art, etc. You can learn more about why we are excited about using the High Scope curriculum as time goes by. Taking part in your child’s classroom, daily lesson plan, parent meetings, and volunteering occasionally.
The High/Scope “key experiences” is used as a guide for helping the teachers to provide developmentally appropriate learning experiences and assess the children’s developmental progress.
OUR VIEW
We see infants and toddlers as separate individual beings. Therefore the procedures, goals and activities for our infant and toddler are carried out on an individual basis. Infant and toddlers who are cared for in a warm, respectful manner are more apt to trust themselves and others. They tend to become curious, and to explore new learning challenges and adventures which is need for infants and toddlers to successfully take on the world as they become adults later on in life.
We will provide a supportive active learning environment so that your infant or toddler can construct an image of themselves as distinct and capable people who can both influence and respond to their immediate world. From birth, infants and toddlers demonstrate preferences, make choices, and assert themselves as decision-makers. We are here to nurture their preferences for making choices and asserting themselves so that they can move to the different level of development needed to master the task and challenge the face as their physical and cognitive needs matures. We are here to encourage your infant and toddler to take initiative by offering them choices, such as what to eat, what to play with, or whether or not to participate in a group activity. We will further your infant and toddler developmental growth by supporting their choices they make on their own and talking through their actions.
We will focus on the following categories in guiding us in providing care for your infant or toddler during your enrollment at HLCDC.
Category I Sense of Self
Category II Social Relations
Category III Creative Representation
Category IV Movement
Category V Communication and Language
Category VI Exploration and Early Logic
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