At Fresh Start Child Care Center, our mission is to provide child care that meets the needs of each child and family in a safe, educational environment. We pride our Center’s focus on the individual needs of each child, while providing quality, reliable and safe child care.
Our goals are:
• To provide affordable, convenient, dependable child care services
• To create a child care setting for social, cognitive, and physical development
• To provide a nurturing environment
• To provide learning experiences for our children
• To provide a preschool program, readying children for lifelong learning
If you 're planning to start a daycare, it 's time to start doing your research anyone can open their home to children, not everyone can operate a licensed daycare facility. There are ten things you need to consider when starting a daycare. First decide how you want to operate. Do you plan on having an in-home daycare or will you be opening a daycare center? The requirements are different depending on the type of day care you plan to operate. Consider incorporating this can have many benefits, including reduced personal liability.
Check local zoning laws and once you 've decided on your actual physical location, you will need to make sure that the location you 've chosen is in compliance with local zoning laws. Check with your city or municipality 's zoning department to be sure that you can operate a daycare facility at the location. Check your state 's requirements for daycare licensing. Each state has different requirements Get your day care ready for inspection, (Ansari, 2012). (Daycare.com, 2011) It 's likely that the state authority issuing the license will want to inspect your daycare location to make sure it 's safe. Check your stat...
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...essage and continues with small and large group learning experiences. At this age, school readiness becomes a priority. Our program goals are focused on providing your child with a solid foundation in the academic skills needed for Kindergarten and beyond. We ensure learning is always fun and enjoyable. Our curriculum is framed by the Creative Curriculum, a nationally-recognized, scientifically-based program that supports your child in the development of multiple areas of study needed for school. We supplement this curriculum with additional programming in the areas of language and communication, science, math, art, music, as well as small and gross motor development. There are some really competitive facilities out there but I feel I will move right on pass them and be able to hold my own having fresh ideas and a good team along with a great leader we can go far.
The childcare industry has variables including childcare by a family member, a traditional caregiver or a day care center. It depends on a family’s situation as to which one benefits them most. The two types of childcare to be discussed are the traditional caregiver and a day care center. Parents must decide whether they want a one-on-one or a group setting for the care of their children.
meeting educational, health, social service, and parental needs. “Head Start also wants to help bring about a greater degree of social competence in these children (Mallory and Goldsmith, 2002).” The program has met a goal of impacting child development and day care services, and the increasing availability of services offered to low-income families and their children (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2002).
Parents are always questioning whether they would like to have any more children someday. One of the aspects parents think about in this decision is child care. Child care can be pricey and the quality of the child care is also something to think about as well. Parents want their child to grow up and become very successful in life. Choosing a daycare from infant on, is part of the process to becoming successful as they grow. For one to add on to the family they need to think about the quality of child care, the price of child care, and attention of care: how their child will be raised. High-quality child care should be provided at public expense to all working parents!
The process of opening a childcare facility is thorough, tedious and time consuming. The benefits of following proper procedures are time saving, informative and essential to the well being of the children being served. As the process begins there are many avenues in which to gather your information. You may choose to reference a textbook for initial pre-licensing direction. A University approved text would be “Developing and Administering a Child Care and Education Program authored by Dorothy Sciarra (Sciarra, 2007). This text will provide valuable information on assessing community needs and establishing a program, as well as licensing and certification objectives and resources. Another avenue source you may choose to access is direct contact with your state run division of childcare licensing. For the state of California, in which I reside, the local contact information is: Fresno Regional Child Care Office located at 770 East Shaw, Suite 300 Fresno, CA 93710. Their contact phone number is (559) 243-4588.. By directly contacting this office, telephone instruction can be provided which will lead you to the necessary steps required to begin the licensing process.
Having your child in an In-Home daycare facility may not be such a great idea either. After reading the article The Hell of American Day Care, many parents vowed not to let their kids go to In-Home facilities. Because the rules and regulations for In-home daycare workers aren’t strictly enforced.
The Child Development Center of College of San Mateo provides early care and educational programs for children between the ages of 3 to 5 years old. Children are divided into classrooms with a “master” teacher, a “regular” teacher, and two or three “associate” teachers. Klara attended Classroom, “A,” a stimulating and well-resourced classroom. Klara was observed for two hours on Monday from 9 am to 11 am and for two hours on Wednesday from 9 am to 11 am. During these two hours, classroom activities consisted of “free time,” “story time,” and an outside “play time.” A “master” teacher, a “regular” teacher, and two “associate” teachers were present during observations. Additionally, a total of eighteen children were in attendance during the observed days.
These are larger facilities that care for infants through school age children. They offer a variety of program options. Some childcare centers even provide transportation to and from school. Most have early learning programs.
Daycare’s focus is mainly on a child’s development through social interaction with children and caregivers. There are head start programs that are geared to give children a foot in the right direction in order to be ready for preschool or kindergarten. The right kind of childcare can be a wonderful opportunity to promote the profound learning children experience from birth through age five (Selecting Child Care, 2002). When selecting childcare for your child, the Foundation of Early Learning has offered some tips that they believe will be helpful in the process. The foundation says that parents have always known that a good early experience is important for their child.
Children who participate in quality early learning programs tend to be more successful later in school. They are also most socially and emotionally competent. In addition those children show higher verbal and intellectual development during early childhood than children who do not participate in early learning programs (A Parent’s Guide to Choosing Quality Child Care). In order for a child care center to be a quality center they must have an educated staff, a program accreditation, and good health and safety practices. Parents choose high quality child care for many reasons. These programs prepare children for school in which they gain intellectual and social skills. Also the programs are a good opportunity for children because they receive age-appropriate learning materials and activities to let the children learn and grow.
Going back to our text, it is mentioned that in 1920s, the emphasis was on physical and intellectual development, and the early education programs were based on the works and studies of Froebel, Montessori, and McMillan. But as education improved in late 1940s, the attention was to focus on physical, social, and emotional growth (Eliason, et al., 2008 p.5). So the creative curriculum has been based on the theories and researches that inform decision making in the early childhood field. We can find these theories in the works of Piaget, Maslow, Erikson, Vygotsky, Smilansky, and Gardner. (Colker)
It’s been noted that recent studies specify that “more than half of all 3-5-year-old children in the United States attend child-care centers prior to kindergarten” and “Given these high usage rates, the quality of these early child-care experiences has become an important public policy issue” (Peisner-Feinberg 2001). It is believed that part of the issue is a result of parents not knowing what the primary purpose of daycare/child care facilities are and what high quality daycares consist of in considering a their child should attend.
A facility that provides appropriate activities to your infant and toddler is what a good program should have. A good program for infant and toddler needs to be able to safely care for each child in its facility. The environment of the program should calm a child and feel inviting to him or her. A well educated staff is a necessity to a good infant and toddler program along with a small teacher to child ratio. Another important aspect for a good program is a curriculum that is play based to enhance a child’s development. For a program to be a good program for young children all of these five components are very important.
Innovations designed to improve student achievement must be technically sound. Leaders must look at how Montessori works. Is Montessori successful at other charter schools? How was the curriculum implemented at other charter schools? The curriculum development team needs to observe other Montessori schools and research their data to make sure the curriculum w...
Entering my kindergarten teaching experience in the last quarter of school year I had to quickly become familiar with kindergarten content standards and the school’s curriculum. To do this I observed my mentor teachers instructional time with the children and gained as much information as I could about the children’s educational standing by developing a professional relationship with the my mentor teacher and the children. I learned that the majority of my kindergarten children had not previously attended preschool and that this was their first year of school. I found that interacting with the children in social activities provided me with great insight to their literacy, math, science, and social studies development. In reviewing the children’s class projects, school displays, and an array of their work sample along with my mentor teachers year-long assessments I was able to recognize challenging, emerging and advanced content areas of the children’s core curriculum. These emerging and challenging content areas is what I centered my curriculum planning around. “Information about each child’s learning and development is used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. This may lead to changes in schedule, curriculum and teaching strategies, room set up, resources, and so on.” (Bredekamp and Copple, p. 249)
Prior to this, common sense at least to me told me that there were objective postie and negative consequences to childcare. The answer, or lack there of is a bit more nuanced then I imagined but it more less reinforced me belief that daycare with proper context, timing, and care can have a net positive effect. The most interesting fact to me was the fact that studies consistently showed that high quality daycare (for all it 's different interpretations) seemed to give children a leg up in academic achievement and cognitive ability. We may not understand all the mechanics at work when it comes to children but to know that high quality care improves these qualities would make it almost seem like an obligation for parents to place our children in these centers, even if for minimal exposure. I was a bit disappointed that there wasn 't any conclusive evidence one way or the other considering risk behavior and social development. There does seem to be some correlation between higher hours and more risk type behavior, but it didn 't apply to children of lower socioeconomic status. There 's a lot of inferences we can make here based off of what we know of the development of children and the habits of parents in these situations, but until we have more actual knowledge concerning the subject it 'd be irresponsible to try to influence any sort of policy concerning the matter. Overall my viewpoint was this, if utilized correctly and executed out of concern for the well being of the child rather than as a way of brushing aside responsibility, daycare can be a vital asset for both child and parent. My research into the topic affirmed my stance with some new points to make should the subject ever arise in