We are committed to educating the whole child: cognitively, emotionally, socially, and physically. Lesson Plans are posted weekly in your child’s classroom and are developed using New Mexico Early Learning Guidelines and Highscope™. This method helps to create an intentional and thought-provoking classroom that challenges young learners.

Basic Principles of Highscope™

In a Highscope classroom teachers facilitate learning by:

Active Learning

Through active learning children are encouraged to interact with materials in structured learning areas while sharing ideas and thoughts with their teacher. Children explore their environment manipulating materials while forming their own hypothesis.

Adult-Child Interactions

Adults focus on children’s individual interests and strengths allowing children to share their experiences and building on their ideas.

Learning Environments

Teachers provide a wide range of materials both indoors and outdoors to allow children to explore, manipulate and use in a variety of ways.

Assessments

While children explore in their work areas teachers observe and document their play. Teachers use that information to help guide lesson planning, so they are extending each child’s individual learning. This will lead purchasing decisions which ensures that materials are used to enhance each child’s growth.

Daily Routines

Children will have a consistent daily routine that supports children in their social and emotional growth. Predictability creates consistency and stability for young children when they are in an educational setting.

Plan-Do-Review

Children’s plans come from their own ideas and interest. Their planning will guide their choices in what learning areas they will work each day. Before children transition to a new activity, they will meet in small groups to review their plans and daily ideas.