Philosophy
Meridian Hills Cooperative Nursery School & Kindergarten is dedicated to creating an environment where children can grow according to their individual timetables, where each child is encouraged to learn through “thoughtful interaction” with materials and with each other, and where children build and construct knowledge as a result of this interaction. We encourage children to explore, question, and test hypotheses. We are a child-centered, success-oriented program. We are a Parent Cooperative dedicated to helping children, parents and teachers grow together.
The Philosophy of Cooperative Preschools
- We are a “success oriented” school, striving to help children and their parents form positive self-concepts and good feelings of self-worth.
- We value the individual uniqueness of each child and adult involved.
- The children at co-ops are free to be-free to won their feelings and to express these feelings. Our job is to help them understand what these feelings are.
- As teachers, we will strive to be reactors to children, not judges of children.
- We will look for causes of action, not focusing on the action itself in cases of conflict.
- WE WILL NOT LABEL BEHAVIOR.
- We will set realistic goals for ourselves and for our children.
- We will work to help children learn how to solve problems, not solve problems for them.
- We will work to foster feelings of empathy, helping children to be responsible for results of their actions.
- We will grow together in this loving, accepting setting.
