Stork's Smart Kid Program, Upper Marlboro

Stork's Smart Kid Program is a team of professional educators, leaders, devoted parents and grandparents from the community who recognized that we needed to expand the programs and research-to-practice approaches for children with learning disabilities, visual and performing arts with academics to meet the individual learning styles of its students. The Smart Kid learn to masters its craft through educational and researched learning. The Curriculum: Teaching Strategies for Early Childhood ~ Teaching Children to be Creative and Confident Thinkers and We Can~Integrates many resources to provide a rich, comprehensive curriculum for young children and is modeled after the highly successful academic program created by Vicki Gibson, Ph.D. The curriculum is flexible enough to meet the needs of individual students while incorporating research-to-practice techniques and technologies. Resources: Healthy Beginnings~Supporting Development and Learning From Birth through Three Years of Age; Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Center For Technology In Education. The guidelines: are developed for individuals who care for children of all ages. The resources support, encourage children during growth and learning in Personal, Social, Language, Cognitive and Physical Development and beyond and Supporting Every Young Learner Marylands Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy Maryland State Department of Education: A new resource for teachers, principals, and community-based early childhood education programs~ Supporting Every Young Learner~ Maryland's Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy Birth to Age 8. This is latest tool implemented in our program and produced by the Maryland State Department of Education's (MSDE) Division of Early Childhood Development to inform and engage early educators on evidence-based practices of teaching and learning. The guide is designed to provide, chapters on critical areas of early childhood education such as understanding brain functions in child development, family engagement, or intentional instruction and beyond. Thinkports child care and early childhood education resources~ lesson and activity designed to help young learners develop important school readiness skills. The environment: Our students have a thirst for exploration, discovery and building new skills everyday. Our team nurture that curiosity, guiding students towards experiences that will enable them to develop new knowledge. Our students naturally and are fully engage, through well planned, structured age appropriate play and learning activities, that minimizes off-task behaviors that interrupt learning opportunities. Storks Smart Kid Program recognizes that many children with learning disabilities also have low self-esteem; We are prepared to challenge a childs mind while caring for the students emotional well-being. Our Smart Kid Team are licensed by The Maryland State Department of Education Division of Early Childhood Development Office of Child Care, We shall not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, creed, gender, identity, and expression, genetic information, marital status, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation I matters affecting employment or in providing access to programs. Soaring Beyond Realistic Expectations.. Tonya McSween Program Director RN117078