Preschool Program Goals
The adopted curriculum of the Cloverleaf Preschool Program, Assessment, Evaluation, Programming System for Infants and Children (AEPS), reflects the following goals and objectives:
• To provide developmentally appropriate learning activities and materials for all children;
• To engage children in active exploration and interaction with adults, other children and materials;
• To teach children to respect and take delight in individual differences;
• To enable children to develop across the physical, social, emotional, self-help, language and aesthetic developmental domains;
• To encourage development of a good self-concept (accurate perception of one’s self) and positive self-esteem;
• To include a balance of active and quiet play during individual, small group, and large group activities;
• To recognize the uniqueness of each child by working creatively to develop a plan to guide each child’s progress;
• To involve children’s families in the program and to make educational resources available to them;
• To include parents in transition planning as the children enter and / or leave special education preschool services; and
• To review children’s progress in the program and to report to their parent through curriculum-based assessment results, progress reports, personal conferences, and individual student Individual Education Programs (IEP's) following the PreK-2 report card cycle.