Step Ahead Learning Environment

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As an illustration, the indoor environment at Step Ahead Learning Center can be described as a safe and appropriate setting for children in all ages. When you first enter the facility, the check-in is on your right where you sign in and ask any questions for the representative. On the walls indicate photographs of the children enrolled at Step Ahead Learning Center considered as the Step Ahead Bears or Step Ahead Giraffes. The room for preschoolers is located straight down from where you sign in and the pre kindergartners room is located to the right, passed the office of the director. By the director’s office, there is a display of the staff who keeps Step Ahead Learning Center functioning everyday since 1996. The outside environment of Step Ahead Learning Center offers open space for children to release all their energy out and the school provides children a place to improve on their motor and physical skills. Children are influenced the most by playing with one another and Step Ahead Learning Center emphasis on physical activity in …show more content…
The school carries a developmentally appropriate program that covers and focuses on the child’s social, emotional, physical, and mental growth. I would definitely suggest enrolling my own child when the time comes. Early care and education helps create a prominent piece to a child’s life ahead of them. Also, children seek for secure and support, that comes from the teachers in the center and also their parents or guardians. The result of studying Step Ahead Learning Center changed my perspective on working and coping with children. Most of us tend to think taking care for children is an easy task; however, it requires high quality work that benefits the children’s early learning settings and adventures to assist them thrive in school and in

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