Brookline, MA
Brookline Early Education Program - Driscoll School

Our program planning and implementation are guided by the following major themes:

1. Parents as Partners. A main point of the Brookline Early Education Project is the importance of parents and teachers working closely together.

2. Individual Programming. General program goals are adapted to meet the needs of individual children through a four-step process: observation, individual goal-setting, implementing strategies, and evaluation. The following developmental areas are considered as we organize our curriculum: planning skills and work habits, problem solving, perceptual skills, cognition, language, physical development, and socio-emotional growth.

3. School Competence. A fundamental aim of the program is to enhance each child's opportunity for success in school.

4. Classroom Environment. The class is organized to encourage the child to plan, work independently and successfully complete activities. Teachers are concerned with establishing a cheerful, caring atmosphere in which adults care for children and children care for each other.

4. Staff Team. Our classroom teaching teams consist of a teacher, assistant teacher, and one or more aides, supported by a team of early childhood specialists.

5. Respect and Support for Diversity. We offer inclusive early childhood classrooms which serve children with diverse cultural backgrounds and a wide range of developmental needs. Teachers strive to create a classroom atmosphere that enables children to comfortably explore similarities and differences.

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A sample schedule for the BEEP program includes:

Arrival Time
Circle Time
Activity Time (children make choices among interest centers, which may include Art, Writing/Literacy, Blocks, Dramatic Play, Library/Quiet Reading, Puzzles and Put-Togethers, Easels, Science/Discovery, Games and Math, Sensory, Sand/Water Table, and Computers)
Playground or Music and Movement
Snack
Quiet Reading or Small Groups
Goodbye Circle
Dismissal

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