North Canton City Schools
Kindergarten Center
PHILOSOPHY

The kindergarten program is primarily child development oriented and places great importance on social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development.  Kindergarten offers the child an opportunity to extend his/her interests and crate new ones.  Its developmental sequence of learning in reading and math readiness serves as a broad foundation for future academic growth. The kindergarten program is intended to provide and atmosphere that nurtures a variety of learning styles, promotes a love of learning, and instills a sense of positive self-worth.  (Adopted 1988)

Kindergarten Center Early Childhood Education Goals:

  1. Realizing that children develop ar different rates which places them at different rates which places then at different points on the developmental continuum, it is our responsibility to meet each child at his/her level and facilitate his/her growth along that continuum.
  2. Realizing that the range of development levels in children becomes less diverse by the age of nine years, it is our responsibility to make well informed, research-based decisions regarding  the placement of students within our educational arena.
  3. Realizing that children learn best through active interaction with relevant materials, ideas, and people, it is our responsibility to provide a classroom environment which promotes active learning.
  4. Realizing that active child learning is an integral component in an early childhood curriculum it is our responsibility to view active learning as a key element in planning and programming, rather than an embellishment.
  5. Realizing that providing many choices for children allows them to function at their developmental level which meets their individual needs, fosters positive self image, and provides the educator with many opportunities to challenge the child to the next level of thinking, it is our responsibility to create an educational setting which invites choice.
  6. Realizing that the educator in a developmentally appropriate classroom acts as a facilitator of learning rather than a central information giver, it is our responsibility allow children to learn through self-discovery while the educator observes and notes students' progress.