Description
Navigate the website of the preschool to look for the things that you wrote on your checklist as quality indicators. (30points)
What can you learn about the Health and Safety of the preschool? Is it licensed? Can you find out its licensing information on its website?
Is it NAEYC Accredited?
What types of programs does it offer?
Be sure to include the following information about each preschool :
Name
Location
Licensed
NAEYC Accredited
Ages of children it serves
Size of Program
Funding Source (private, private non-profit, public)
For 3 of the preschools, Write the above information, AND the following information in 2 paragraph narratives for each:
Quality Information from your checklist
Mission Statement and Goals
Curriculum
If the website includes photographs, what can you tell about its indoor or outdoor environments, its population? Anything else?
What types of programs does it offer?
What seems to be the philosophy of the school? How can you tell?
How well did the preschool communicate to the public using web resources?
If you had a preschool aged child, would you consider sending that child to this school, based on what you could find out on the website? Why or why not? What other things would be necessary to do to find out information about quality?
So, in summary, For this assignment:
1. your list of quality indicators written by you based on information you found important from Licensing of Child Care centers in the Sate of California, in the Department of Social Services website, and the National Association for the Education of Young Children website.
2. List of 6 Preschool Websites that you visited with Information listed above
3. List of 3 Preschool Websites with your 2 paragraph narrative of each that addresses Quality Indicators that you found on the websites, and your evaluation of each school and its public communications.
