Joyful Care Children's Academy

Preschool Program

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Children of preschool age are gaining independence and developing rapidly.

 

Our early education preschool programs provide a balance between nurturing preschool-age children and encouraging exploration of the world around them, while carefully guiding children toward the more structured classroom experiences ahead.

 

Class Ratio: 1 teacher to every 10 students

 

Curriculum: Learn Every Day: The Preschool Curriculum

 

Learn Every Day: The Preschool Curriculum consists of 36 thematic units and more than 1,300 learning activities. The curriculum incorporates literacy, math, science, social studies, and creative arts into each unit. These units will help teachers create an early childhood environment in which children can learn important information about their world, and develop life skills and social competence.

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The units principles include:

1. Understanding how children learn so that learning can always take place the children are in the program, including routines and play, indoors and outdoors. The goal is that no time that could be used for learning is wasted.

2. Understanding child development so that the teacher knows children need to learn prerequisites before they can meaningfully learn and be able to do what is needed in the future. The goal is that teachers must know not just the simple end results, such as being able to read or write, but rather the complex developmental path that is required to reach the result.

3. Understanding to trust children so that each child will be able to learn what is needed for later success. The goal is that teachers know that all children, those either with a disability or typically developing, can learn, and can be interested in doing so, given the right conditions.

4. Understanding to respect children as individuals. The goal is that teachers respect each child's needs, preferred interests, and learning styles, in order to determine how, what, where, and when learning will best take place.

5. Understanding how to share knowledge with children. The goal is that a teacher understands the importance of her guidance, in terms of sharing the information she has, to make children's learning broader and more efficient.

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