About Us
Welcome to TCA Creative Minds Academy
READ OUT MISSION STATEMENT, PHILOSOPHY, BEHAVIOR GUIDANCE AND DISCIPLINE, CURRICULUM.
About Us
WELCOME
Welcome to TCA Creative Minds Academy. As an owner and a premier leader in childcare training and education for 8 years, we are proud and privileged to have your family as part of our school community. Your questions, concerns and comments are extremely important to us. To address any issue, please do not hesitate to contact the childcare administrator. We look forward to an exciting partnership in teaching your child a lifelong love of learning. We welcome ERDC also
MISSION STATEMENT
Our most important goal is to provide your child with an environment that champions children to grow intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically and to cultivate a lifetime love of learning. To achieve this goal, we continue to invest in replacing and upgrading learning materials throughout the year, and in hiring, training, retaining, and compensating high caliber teaching and administrative support staff. We are here to make a positive difference in the lives of our children, their families, and the communities we serve.
PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of TCA Creative Minds education is that all children carry within themselves the person they will become. In order to develop physical, intellectual, and spiritual potential to the fullest, the child must have freedom – a freedom to be achieved through order and self-discipline.
TCA Creative Minds has recognized that the only valid impulse to learning is the self-motivation of the child. Children move themselves toward learning. Our teachers prepare the environment, direct the activity and offer the stimulation, but it is the child who learns, who is motivated through work itself to persist in a given task. TCA Creative Minds children are free to learn because they have acquired an inner discipline from their exposure to both physical and mental order. This is the core of TCA Creative Mind’s philosophy. Patterns of concentration and thoroughness, established in early childhood produce a confident, competent learner in later years. TCA Creative Minds education teaches children to observe, to think and to judge. It introduces children to the joy of learning at an early age and provides a framework in which intellectual and social discipline go hand-in-hand.
BEHAVIOR GUIDANCE AND DISCIPLINE
TCA Creative Minds staff guide children into developing safe and appropriate ways of interacting with others and with their environment. One of our goals is to help children develop tools to problem solve. Young children learn by experimenting, testing limits and experiencing the consequences of their behavior. In the process of setting and enforcing limits, our teachers assist the children in developing self-control and respect for the rights and property of others. Children learn how to get along in a group while balancing the need for individual rights and self-expression.
Our staff is trained to help your child by word and example, to realize that the following actions are not appropriate behavior:
– Hitting, biting or harming other children or adults
– Teasing, name calling or making rude remarks
– Leaving the group without accompaniment by a staff person or a parent
– Showing disrespect for adults, students, the school environment, materials and equipment
Occasionally, children may be invited to work independently for a short time in order to regain self-control. In these cases, the child has an open invitation from the teacher to return to the group when he feels ready. Any separation from the group will always be within sight and hearing of the staff, and the length of time will be related to the child’s age and maturity.
Inner Discipline: The development of inner discipline in a child is always the goal at TCA Creative Minds. Self-discipline is fostered in many ways. The classroom environment is organized in an orderly, logical manner. Children choose work, which they are capable of doing and are free to use for as long as they wish without interference from others. This approach alleviates many problems of discipline, which might be present in another kind of environment. In addition, the mixed age group such as 3, 4 and 5 years old allows the younger children to emulate the older children’s more mature behavior.
However, the school reserves the right to exclude, withdraw or dismiss any student from classes or from school for the violation of any rules, regulations or payment of fees and tuition, and at the discretion of the Director. Children and adults are expected to respect the rights and needs of others and the environment.
If, in the judgment of the Director or designee, your child’s behavior interferes with the school staff providing a safe and nurturing program, the school will contact you to remove your child for the remainder of the school day. The school requires that the child be picked up within 1 hour of being notified. There will be no refund for the time missed during this time. Re-admission of your child to the program will be discussed at the time of removeable.
In the case of repeated inappropriate behavior at any age level, consequences will be determined by the Director and teachers and could result in removal from the environment. Blatant or continued misbehavior of any kind is considered grounds for expulsion.
CURRICULUM
Each child learns throughout the day. Accordingly, our curriculums (high scope is for preschool and Creative Play is for the infant and toddlers) is the total of the child’s daily schedule and experiences. Our teachers develop their class schedules and lesson plans on the interests, needs, and abilities of the children. Our environments are equipped to encourage hands-on learning. Activities are balanced between active and quiet play, indoors and outdoors. Child initiated and directed play activities are enhanced by “coaching” assistance from our teachers. Some time is allowed for larger, teacher-directed groups, such as music, stories, and games. Staff members focus on listening and talking with the children, making dialogue a major component. Limited media is used creatively to enliven the child’s learning.