Preschool in Austin, TX 78702
The Education Component consists of teachers and co=teachers in Head Start centers (for 3-5 year-olds) and Early Head Start centers (for 0-3 year-olds).
We also have qualified Child Inc. teacher aides in some public school PreK and Kindergarten classrooms in Austin Manor DelValle Lake Travis and Pflugerville.
All child Inc. teachers have either a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential or a college degree in early childhood education or child development. All our teacher aides are working toward their CDA’s. And teachers who do not yet have degrees are encouraged to participate in college classes.
All new staff receive a minimum of 48 hours of orientation before receiving a classroom assignment; their training continues throughout their employment with us. That training can take the form of formal classes workshops experiential training and mentoring. Staff know that they must like the children continue to grow and develop. That means learning new ways to help children prepare for school and life.
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We the teaching staff think of every child as a unique individual; we assess each child and develop an Personalized Education Plan to work on both strengths
and areas of need. We work on all aspects of development: social emotional intellectual gross motor fine motor and physical. The day is designed for fun
learning experiences; children learn by exploring experiments trying failing and trying again. Children will learn both indoors and out. Creativity is valued. We will be touching tasting looking at listening to and smelling all kinds of things; because children learn through their senses. Children spend some of their time in group activities and some working on individual projects. Much of the time children play with small groups of children; in this way they learn about cooperating teamwork and problem solving. Children make a lot of choices in the classroom; He/she chooses the learning center (blocks art music literacy dramatic play table games etc.) to play in how long to stay there and where to go next. We keep all the materials children need at their level so they can get what they need when the need it. We stay busy all day: children play hard work hard and sleep hard. We maintain low child-staff ratios and children are supervised at all times by a highly-qualified caring staff.