Cmu Child Development & Learning Lab
Preschool in Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
The Child Development and Learning Laboratory has three different funding sources for the preschool program. These are only funding sources and have no impact on the quality of the programming in each classroom because children from all three funding sources are enrolled in every classroom. Each classroom focuses on supporting the individual child helping them to learn and grow. Teachers meet regularly to plan goals for each classroom in the laboratory and implement those goals through high quality programming. The program assistant Charlote Galgoci will assist you in determining which funding source your family is eligible for within the CDLL.
GSRP
The Great Start Readiness Program is a free state-funded preschool program for four year old children from the University or community. Children qualify for the program through meeting criteria from a Department of Education list.
Headstart
The Head Start Program is a free federally funded program serving children who are three or four. This program serves children who meet income qualifications and gives priority to parents who are full time students.
Tuition
The Tuition program is for three or four year old children from the University or the community in which parents pay for their children to attend a four day per week preschool session.
- Child Ages:
- 3 years - 4 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- NAEYC Accredited
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday to Thursday
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In the spirit of following a Reggio Inspired Approach to early childhood education and in assessing children’s ongoing growth and development using documentation of children’s work and observational anecdotal records through the Creative Curriculum’s online assessment tools (including the Individual Child Profile) the faculty and staff of the Child Development and Learning Laboratory and Human Development and Family Studies area hold to the following philosophical ideas in the education of young children:
These ideas are founded on the belief that children teachers and parents are considered the three central protagonists in the educational process (Gandini 1993). We believe that ALL children are creative thinkers who thrive when they can explore take risks and use their imaginations to participate in research and construct learning within the context of interactions with other children adults and the environment. All children have a right to practice making choices negotiate explore without fear of criticism make mistakes feel safe experience trust be heard and be respected within a set of boundaries established by nurturing adults. Teachers are critical partners in the educational process and have the responsibility to establish boundaries nurture a sense of community plan the environment based on individual children’s interests/needs/developmental levels guide children’s discovery and learning opportunities listen observe question and document as they engage in research side by side with the children. Parents and parent figures are children’s most consistent teachers and must be included as active participants and partners in each child’s education. Teachers and parents should work to establish trusting relationships as they interact for the purpose of sharing goals and guiding practices for the children in the program. Parents and family members also share in the valuable role of enhancing the curriculum of the program as they contribute their talents skills and traditions with the school as experts of their home culture and heritage. Because the use of educational space is critical to the learning that takes place within it the CDLL is dedicated to creating an environment that provokes inquiry communication and relationships. This space will be organized with a sense of beauty comfort and consideration of valuing and sustaining the natural environment.