My Academy Preschool provides a safe and nurturing environment which promotes physical, social, emotional, cognitive and creative development of young children. We believe that a developmental appropriate program should be provided for all children. A developmental program is one in which the curriculum is geared to the age appropriateness of children as well as individual maturational difference. Learning in young children is a result of interaction between the child’s thoughts and experiences with his or her environment. Our program’s aim is to provide for this for the child.
We believe that the role of our teachers is to facilitate the optimum social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development of each child by being aware of the various stages of development and providing the appropriate learning experiences. At My Academy Preschool, play is recognized as the natural vehicle by which a child learns. It is through play that the child exercises curiosity and imagination, learns to concentrate, tries new ideas and practices grownup behavior. The value of play cannot be overstated. Children must also be allowed to move about in an environment, which offers a variety of attractive, stimulating, and interesting activities. Giving ample opportunity to make their own choices benefits the child by enhancing self-esteem, encouraging independence, and developing a sense of responsibility for his or her own actions.
Creativity is seen as an attitude or way of thinking about one’s environment, which comes easily to young children. We believe that it is the nurturing adults’ job to enhance and refine creativity within each child by showing respect for their ideas, encouraging self-initiated learning, fostering curiosity, providing a variety of media through which creativity can be expressed, modeling creative behavior, and reducing the pressure of evaluation and competition.
A child’s experience at My Academy Preschool is seen as a supplement to, rather than a replacement for, the family. To provide for the optimal development, we are convinced that it is essential to work with parents to meet each child’s needs. To strengthen the child’s relationship within his or her family, we provide a warm and caring atmosphere, which fosters within the child a sense of security, self-confidence, and individual worth.
Our planned curriculum focuses on the child's development. Our curriculum is designed to accommodate maturational differences in children using centers Using the center approach, the children move around freely and learn by doing. As they change activities, they meet different groups of children. They learn to work and talk with others. They meet problems and solve them. They grow in confidence and self-respect. Centers enable children to make choices and learn through active exploration of the materials available combined with interaction with their peers and adults. Centers provide experiences with such cognitive skills as differentiation, classification, serration, and other basic thought processes. Experiences are of concepts, creativity, and socio-dramatic play. We provide small and large group activities so that children learn to develop social skills like waiting for one’s turn, sharing, listening to others, and verbalizing their feelings and knowledge of the world around them. Time is also provided for large motor skills, group times, music, and stories.
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