Purpose Autumn Creek Learning Center has been formed to provide early childhood education in a home like environment that will be conducive to a child's total growth and development. Top of Page

Philosophy of the Center

1. A new way to help people in child care integrate culturally; responsive care giving with developmentally appropriate practices.

2. Helping children to develop self discipline, self esteem, problem solving skills, and assisting them in creating a stronger sense of themselves.

3. In the heart of teacher and child interaction, is a simple but heartfelt philosophy; "Teachers must deal with children with humor, compassion, and respect."

4. The importance of modeling the appropriate behavior...giving children options...helping children to express their feelings...the concept of re-direction...dealing with the needs of the individual child.

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Mission, Vision and Care Values

1. Our Mission at Autumn Creek Learning Center is to provide the best care and learning experience for our children to help them expand their curiosity and creativity in a warm, secured and nurturing environment.

2. Our Vision is to be the "premier Preschool and Child Care Center" in the Bay Area.  We will work with parents to achieve this Vision.

3. Our Care values (Belief in People, Excellence, Trust-worthiness and Innovation), will be our guiding principles for our day-to-day behavior and decision.

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Goals

1. Help children grow up in a safe and nurturing environment; at the same time, assist them to become self reliant and independent.

2. Use age appropriate methods to satisfy each child's physical, emotional and intellectual needs.  Help children explore their environment through play.

3. Offer children a home away from home and help them adapt both socially and intellectually to a broader diverse environment.

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Methods

The programs at the Center will focus on the developmental needs of a child as a total person - his/her social growth, emotional growth, physical growth, and cognitive growth.  We will offer programs to enhance these growths by providing a variety of stimulating activities designed to meet the needs of the children.  We will organize activities that will introduce children to experiences with art, science, music, stories, cooking and movement.

Our program will be child centered reflecting the interests of each child in the classroom.  The programs will be play oriented to capitalize on the child's interest and will encourage active learning to develop curiosity, critical thinking and problem solving skills.  Each child will be allowed to explore and learn at their own pace in a safe and secure environment without fear of failure.  There will be emphasis on language development, perceptual discrimination, cognition and motor coordination.

Our programs will encourage children to trust themselves and adults.  More choices will be offered to the children where appropriate in order to prepare them to be independent. We will aim to create a supportive and caring atmosphere where a typical child could interact with a child of different ability, can learn more about each other, accept their similarities and differences, respect each other and develop responsibilities for their behaviors.

The Center will invite parents to become involved in all aspects of their child's developments.  The parents will be able to learn more about the various phases of their child's growth and development through such interaction.

Additional services for the family will include assistance in securing necessary health services, referral to the agencies, and aid to families in making maximum use of community resources.

Food and nutrition services will form an important element of the Center's program.  We believe eating is an experience out of which a child's images of the world and his/her importance in it grows.  Food that is eaten pleasantly together remains a great socializing tool all through life.  Menu planning will take into consideration a sensitivity to ethnic food patterns of the children thus creating the necessary bond of school and home.

Meal time will provide opportunities for learning to build upon language development.  It will lead to discussion in the areas of different food, it will encourage the broadening of a child's tastes, it will aid in making children more perceptually aware of shapes, colors, flavors and odors of food served, while setting standards for acceptable behavior at the table.

Parents involvement, suggestions, and discussion of issues of concerns, and constructive criticism is always welcome.

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The Center is open for business
Monday through Friday 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, excluding legal holidays.