Why Focus on Development in Preschool?
Children aged up to 5 years are in the phase of their lives where they obtain rapid growth in all areas of their development, including cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and language domains. Stronger the foundation in these critical years, more at ease in future Learning, building relationships, and maintaining overall well-being. Therefore, offering them a supportive environment with efficient pedagogies and highly trained professionals must be the top priority to help our preschoolers reach their full potential. Many of us consider having good intervention later as our children are too young; this is where we miss the chance to have proper intervention at the right time. If we want our children to be intelligent, we must act during their growth. After all, we are not seeking rote knowledge or memorization over understanding but the growth in our children's developmental domains. Rather than imposing information, let us help our babies to enhance their capacity. Let us help them foster their independent thinking, curiosity, interest in exploration, confidence, tendency to apply knowledge in a meaningful way, life skills, and overall well-being. Ultimately, we allow our children to grow into capable individuals who are compatible with future challenges, have enthusiasm, and are adaptable.
Key Aspects of Development
Cognitive Development:
At our preschool, we focus on implementing activities that foster our children's cognitive abilities, including problem- solving, decision-making, remembering, and learning capacity. Our strategies include scaffolding, sociocultural learning, and social exposure and interaction, which help children grow to their optimum. Assessing children's learnability and supporting them with appropriate strategies and tools prevent them from getting overwhelmed while helping them transition to a higher level of competency. We are also dedicated to offering stimulus according to the milestones of our children's development, which allows them to have scientific support to develop themselves and various psychoeducational tools we provide to give them the best suitable environment to grow.
Social and Emotional Development:
A sense of belongingness, empathy, independence, confidence, and leadership are vital to a child's development, and they are also our top priorities when implementing our support. Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self- regulating mechanisms, social awareness, and skills in developing relationships are other aspects we are focused to emphasize on. Understanding and practicability in group dynamics, developing meaningful relationships, and a lifelong sense of security are other significant aspects we believe our children need to have.
Physical Development:
Our experts are devoted to enhancing our children's gross and fine motor skills, which are the foundation of their physical development. Whether it is about balancing, running, jumping, or any activities like drawing or writing, we should enhance these skills to the optimum, ultimately giving overall fitness and healthy growth. Graphomotor skills activities will also support the writing skills. Besides gross and fine motor skills, we are also dedicated to having nutritional assessments and providing appropriate support naturally for our children with the help of experts.
Language Development:
We are dedicated to prioritizing activities that support linguistic skills in children. We encourage vocabulary growth, interactive conversation, and activities like storytelling that play crucial roles in children's language development. These activities ultimately support children in self-expression, confident social interaction, and excellence in reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.
Foundational Skills for Formal Education:
Strong early literacy and numeracy skills are our priority and essential in a seamless transition to the next level. We are also dedicated to fostering discipline and adaptability of our children to a structured environment. Moreover, we promise to help our children grow to their optimum developmental level, allowing them to adapt to any environment,learn and perform excellently, and have a lifelong love for learning with confidence and enthusiasm.
Scientifically Proven Pedagogies for Effective Learning
Scientific evidence-based pedagogical approaches are essential to support children's holistic development pragmatically. Some primary pedagogies we have adjusted in our academic program are:
Play-Based Learning:
Structured and unstructured play can be considered prominent approaches, especially in early childhood development. These include role-playing, sand- play, manipulatives, and imaginative games, where children explore and express themselves naturally and enjoyably. Play enhances significant areas of development, like creativity, social interaction, and problem-solving skills.
Inquiry-Based Learning:
We encourage children to ask questions, explore the environment, and figure out concepts independently. Building curiosity and a tendency for a deeper understanding of the world can help children grow beyond the banking of information.
Collaborative Learning:
Entities of a collaborative learning approach, such as Group interaction, peer learning and support, and shared goals, help children enhance their significant developmental aspects, including critical thinking, social and communication skills, emotional development, and diverse perspectives. The approach ultimately prepares children for future real-world challenges.
Project-Based Learning:
Meaningful long-term projects incorporated with planning, execution, and reflection prepare children with a sense of learning ownership, ultimately strengthening problem-solving abilities and creativity.
Experiential and Outdoor Learning:
Transformative learning can bring a visible change in children. Real-life experiences with hands-on activities incorporated with outdoor activities promote a deeper understanding of the environment in a more meaningful and helpful manner.
Montessori Method:
Our academic program focuses on child-centered learning tailored to each child's developmental stages, interests, and abilities; meanwhile, the classroom is organized to encourage exploration and independence. Specially designed materials are used by children to explore concepts through concrete experiences before moving to abstract. At the same time, we focus on fostering intrinsic motivation beyond the reward or extrinsic motivation. Professionals who are highly trained and experienced in Dr. Maria Montessori's philosophy are deployed to integrate the approach efficiently with other approaches.
Multisensory Teaching:
Our learning experiences incorporate the multiple senses, including visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, and olfactory. Children learn through hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, and moving, which helps them to use their diverse qualities in learning while motivating them to study and preventing boredom. It also compensates for children with learning issues; on the other hand, it helps to enhance all the aspects of child development. By incorporating these pedagogical approaches, we are dedicated to offering our children a stimulating environment that helps foster every aspect of developmental milestones.
Expert Team to Support Holistic Development
We proudly announce that our dedicated team of highly experienced educationalists and child psychologists who have worked in the field for decades assist directly in our school. These experts are committed to helping each child reach their full potential, allowing them to experience guidance and support dedicated to ensuring the highest standards of education and care for them. Our team also includes nutritionists, physical educators, musical instructors, dance teachers, and other professionals important in the field. As we understand the sensitive nature of the foundation phase to the holistic development of our children, we are committed to maintaining a strict policy to run each activity in direct observation with experts in the related field.
Nurturing a Safe and Sound Environment
We provide a nurturing, safe, and sound environment where children feel secure and valued; our facilities ensure physical and psychological safety.
Social welfare program
We are dedicated to collaborating with parents and stakeholders in society to create a child- friendly environment on the school premises and in the community. By preventing interruptions or advisories, we aim to promote a society where every child can thrive in a nurturing environment regardless of diversity.