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Seattle, WA
All About Kids
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neighborhood: West Seattle · Telephone: (206) 938-4468 · Website: www.allaboutkids.biz
General Approach to Learning
| Play-based | |
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Play-based with some structure |
| Predominantly teacher-led instruction | |
| Montessori | |
| Waldorf | |
| Co-op | |
| Reggio-Emilia |
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Director's Comments
An important goal at All About Kids is to incorporate anti-bias and cultural diversity as an integral part of its curriculum since children live in a diverse and complex society. This encourages each child to reach his/her full potential by challenging the barriers created by prejudice, discrimination and stereotypes. An anti-bias, culturally diverse curriculum offers a teaching strategy which develops an appreciation of diversity, rather than ignoring, and therefore reinforcing children?s misunderstandings of differences. Examples in our program include: a display of each child?s family; books, toys, and other materials that reflect diversity in families, gender roles, racial and ethnic identity, physical abilities and occupations. This curriculum approach is a commitment to address societal bias and practice appreciation of differences in a developmentally appropriate way. We encourage families to share aspects of their cultural celebrations with the children in our care.
Curriculum and Teaching Approach
| PLAY-BASED | PLAY-BASED WITH SOME STRUCTURE | MOSTLY TEACHER LED | NOT FORMALLY IN CURRICULUM | CONDUCIVE ENVIRONMENT | ||
| Language | Yes | |||||
| Oral language | - |
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| Nursery rhymes, poems, songs | - |
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| Storybook reading | - |
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- | - | n/a | |
| Emerging literacy skills | - |
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| Cognitive Development | n/a | |||||
| Math and number sense | - |
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| Time & space | - |
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| Sci. reasoning/physical world | - |
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| Music | - |
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| Visual arts | - |
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| Physical activity | - |
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| Other subjects taught | We try to bring other languages that reflect our children's families into our routine. For example the children learn to count and alphabets of german, spanish, macedonian and some American SIgn language. | n/a | ||||
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Director's Comments
Our goal is to help each child to develop the social skills necessary for group interaction. This is done through positive feedback for good behavior, and by promoting the rewards that come from sharing, working and playing together. We understand that conflict is normal and that each child faces the challenge of learning to share and compromise. Our task is to help the child to develop the inner resources needed in learning to resolve conflict in a positive way. We promote the simple respect for each individual?s rights. When inappropriate behavior is displayed, the child is asked to choose between an individual activity, or remaining in the present activity with a behavior change. If the behavior is not corrected, our response is to place the child in a ?time-out? situation, or sitting in a chair for a brief period. We do not ?time out? a child by placing them ?in a corner?, we feel this is humiliating to a child. They will be timed-out to sit briefly in view of an adult.
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