Role of Sunshine Teachers
Our Sunshine teachers:
- Show passion for working with young children
- Provide appropriate challenge and support for each child to grow academically and socially
- Balance the needs of children individually and the group as a whole
- Understand the developmental, social, and academic strengths and challenges of each child
- Give adequate time for children to think and reason
- Foster independence and curiosity
- Implement a developmentally appropriate “child-centered” program that addresses the social, emotional, cognitive and physical needs of young children
- Afford learning opportunities that are hands on, collaborative, and invite shared interactions
- Develop a core curriculum centered on thematic ties throughout subject areas around which all of the different learning activities are organized
- Follow the passions of children through an emergent curriculum
- Establish classroom routines and behavioral guidelines to provide a framework for expectations
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop an integrated program
- Model kindness, consideration, and respect
- Learn through discovering new information alongside the children
- Equip children with problem solving strategies
- Encourage children to solve conflicts on their own
- Invite children to ask questions and take risks; honor learning through mistakes
- Build strong partnerships with parents and guardians
