Educational Program Goals & Principles
Our Program Goals
- Summit Kids Academy’s responsibility is to meet the well being of every child in our program, now and in the future. We shall provide the best, safest, most nurturing and healthiest learning environment where children can play, learn and grow.
- Continually provide the most developmentally appropriate educational tools and methods to meet tomorrow’s standards.
- Provide all children with age appropriate experiences that will enhance their physical, language, cognitive, creative, social and emotional development.
- Facilitate your child’s entry into the next stage in their development. From infant to toddler through pre-school and finally into kindergarten.
- Acknowledge that the families are essential in the child’s development and strive to maintain constant cooperation between the home and our professionals.
- Support professional development through continuous and timely education, training and technical assistance to enhance the growth of our childcare professionals.
- Be committed to the utmost professionalism amongst ourselves and maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of operations, including respect for private communication whether written or verbal.
- Promote equality and opportunity.
Our Program Principles
To achieve our objectives, our educational program meets the following principles:
- Each child is unique – While there exist predictable sequences in a child’s development, each child has their own personality and their own rate of development.
- The child’s development is a global and integrated process – Child development touches all dimensions of the person (physical, motor, intellectual, social, emotional, moral and linguistic.) These dimensions are interrelated as each of them relies on the other, creating a ripple effect on the overall development of the child.
- The child is key to his/her own development – The child’s thinking is based directly on what he sees, hears or touches. Through his/her interactions with the physical and human environment, be it by exploring, manipulating, observing, listening, or speaking, he/she will build knowledge of themselves and others within their own environment.
- The child learns through play – Our program is based on play. Therefore, the activities our teachers will organize are based on play for the children and directed interventions. The child can therefore explore, understand and control their own environment, which stimulates their own evolution and interaction. Through games, the teachers can learn about the child’s behavior, emotions, knowledge and thought process.
- Communication between the parents and the teacher is essential – Acknowledge that the families are essential in the child’s development and strive to maintain constant cooperation between the home and our professionals.
- Partners with parents – Open communication contributes to the harmonious development of the child. If the child has developed a strong and trusting relationship with his parents and other adults in his life develop not sure what this means relationships amongst themselves that are based on mutual support and respect, the child will then be more open to new relationships on the same basis. The healthy exchanges between educational staff and parents are very valuable to the child as it will allow the child to adapt more easily.
