Our Mission Statement:
The Little Explorers mission is to provide a safe, positive, loving, respectful, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate environment that is created to meet the needs and interests of each individual child in our care, while giving them opportunities to explore; and to provide high quality child care, assistance, and support for families, while also providing them with many opportunities to become involved in their child’s education.
Our Program Goals:
I. For the Child:
• To create opportunities for children of different cultures to share their values and lifestyles, and develop their language skills.
• To create opportunities for children to experience and learn about other cultures, …show more content…
What is Teaching?
We believe that teaching is providing children with guidance, instruction, dedication, motivation, inclusion, respect, attention, love, age and developmentally appropriate materials and curriculum, time, space, and a safe area to explore, while making sure that the children remain safe and healthy.
Teaching Techniques
The teaching techniques we use are: creating rules and boundaries for the children to follow, using appropriate discipline techniques, helping children create goals to pass their limitations and enhance their strengths, displaying and demonstrating appropriate behaviors for children to follow and use, providing children with positive encouragement for good behaviors, and trying to fulfill the needs and interests of each individual child in our care.
What is …show more content…
We believe family involvement to be a crucial part of a child 's learning and development. A family 's involvement in a child 's education can provide important information about a child 's needs, interests, likes, dislikes, limitations, and abilities, that can only be seen at home by the child 's family members. Families can also continue teaching a child at home, after school, giving the child valuable experiences. Also, when the family is involved in their child’s education, it can boost the child 's self-confidence, self-identity, and motivation for learning.
Involvement