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The overall goal of IHSD’s teaching staff is to offer a developmentally appropriate curriculum with a strong emphasis on language acquisition, cognitive development, social competency, and creativity in young children. In all of IHSD’s programs, teachers create an environment that is rich with developmentally appropriate and culturally diverse materials that can be freely explored by children. The classroom learning environment encourages active learning through sensory stimulation, peer interaction, and adult-child interaction. Moreover, IHSD’s programs offer an environment where children have an abundance of opportunities to interact with others, make choices, and learn decision-making and problem-solving skills. The teachers create lesson plans based on topics of the children’s interest and keep their plans open-ended in order to be responsive to the children’s evolving needs and interests.

IHSD’s center-based child development programs use The Creative Curriculum as their framework for planning the learning environment and developing activities for young children. The underlying theme of The Creative Curriculum is that learning is a creative process that involves supporting the creativity of both the children and their teachers. Children’s creativity is supported through an environment that encourages them to try out ideas and risk making mistakes, while the teacher’s creativity is supported by a curriculum framework that encourages innovation and responsiveness to children.

 

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