Curriculum
Infants and Toddlers
Throughout their explorations, infants and toddlers rely on parents and caregivers to attend to, support, and build on their actions, choices, and ways of communicating. Through our HighScope curriculum, skills begin to emerge in the developmental areas of approaches to learning ("Maybe I can reach that block if I roll over onto my stomach."), social and emotional development ("This is my mom. Hannah is my friend."), physical development and health ("I can crawl to that other baby."), communication, language, and literacy ("When I talk to my teacher, she talks back to me."), cognitive development ("These roll away. These do not."), and creative arts (swaying to different types of music). Adults support children's initiatives and desires to explore with all their senses. They understand that children's self-motivated explorations, supported by knowledgeable caregivers, lead to meaningful learning experiences in all the content areas that are key to healthy human growth and development.
Preschoolers
Young children build or "construct" their knowledge of the world through actively participating in the learning process. They discover things through direct experience with people, objects, events and ideas. Our teachers interact with the children by thoughtfully providing materials, planning activities, and talking with children in ways that support and challenge what children are observing and thinking. This educational approach builds essential school-readiness skills. Our HighScope curriculum promotes independence, curiosity, decision making, cooperation, persistence, creativity, and problem solving. BSLELC provides the kinds of experiences that support and nurture all areas of learning and development in every child. This includes the following areas, which are widely accepted as the standard in the early childhood community: approaches to learning; language, literacy, and communication; social and emotional development; physical development, health and well-being; and arts and sciences.
Information used with permission from HighScope Educational Research Foundation.
Throughout their explorations, infants and toddlers rely on parents and caregivers to attend to, support, and build on their actions, choices, and ways of communicating. Through our HighScope curriculum, skills begin to emerge in the developmental areas of approaches to learning ("Maybe I can reach that block if I roll over onto my stomach."), social and emotional development ("This is my mom. Hannah is my friend."), physical development and health ("I can crawl to that other baby."), communication, language, and literacy ("When I talk to my teacher, she talks back to me."), cognitive development ("These roll away. These do not."), and creative arts (swaying to different types of music). Adults support children's initiatives and desires to explore with all their senses. They understand that children's self-motivated explorations, supported by knowledgeable caregivers, lead to meaningful learning experiences in all the content areas that are key to healthy human growth and development.
Preschoolers
Young children build or "construct" their knowledge of the world through actively participating in the learning process. They discover things through direct experience with people, objects, events and ideas. Our teachers interact with the children by thoughtfully providing materials, planning activities, and talking with children in ways that support and challenge what children are observing and thinking. This educational approach builds essential school-readiness skills. Our HighScope curriculum promotes independence, curiosity, decision making, cooperation, persistence, creativity, and problem solving. BSLELC provides the kinds of experiences that support and nurture all areas of learning and development in every child. This includes the following areas, which are widely accepted as the standard in the early childhood community: approaches to learning; language, literacy, and communication; social and emotional development; physical development, health and well-being; and arts and sciences.
Information used with permission from HighScope Educational Research Foundation.
