Beth HaGan School Temple Israel
Center in Great Neck, NY 11023
At Beth HaGan we are committed to providing a warm nurturing and caring environment in which children can develop and grow. Here children learn to interact respect and trust others while learning about themselves. Our moderately structured learning environment provides opportunities for teachers to teach across the curriculum and assist children in seeing interrelationships of things they are learning. By establishing acceptable guidelines we encourage positive behavior fostering a sense of accomplishment and success.
Jewish experiences are brought to the children through their active participation in a specially planned curriculum of stories role playing cooking dramatization music and movement Shabbat and festival celebrations. This facility is authorized to administer medications
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- New York State Office of Children & Family Services -
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The philosophy of the Beth HaGan program focuses on meeting the individual and unique needs of every child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. Classroom activities are designed with the understanding that optimal learning occurs in a child centered atmosphere which stimulates self-discovery. The environment maximizes personal growth while encouraging children to feel welcome to make choices investigate possibilities and freely express themselves. The variety of experiences and opportunities offered provide social interaction cognitive achievement physical challenge and a true feeling of self worth security and confidence.
The key to such growth is through play. Play is the way children learn what no one can teach them. It allows children to create their own logic at their own pace. Concrete thought patterns change to abstract as children make sense of their own world by interacting with and transforming it. It is the way children orient themselves to the world of space and time of things animals structures and people. Play is a child’s most valuable tool for preparing him or her for the future and its tasks.
The program is based on the principle of cooperation and communication between parents school and child. Parent participation is considered essential as parents are an active part of their children’s learning experience.
