Educare West Dupage

Educare Model ​High Quality, Low Ratio Educare West DuPage has highly qualified teachers. Our birth to three teachers have a minimum of a bachelor degree, with specific infant toddler coursework and experience. Our preschool teachers have minimum bachelors degree with a Type 04 teaching certificate, and many have additional endorsements in Special Education and ESL. Our birth to three classrooms have 8 children with 3 teachers; preschool has 17 children with 3 teachers. ​ Dual Language Educare West DuPage has a 70:30 Dual Language Model, in which instruction and communication occur in both languages, Spanish and English. There are two teachers in every room who teach the Spanish Language Model, and one English Speaking model. Our goal is that every child leaves our program, ready to learn and excel in kindergarten speaking both English and Spanish. Continuity of Care Many of our children enter our program as infants and remain with their caregivers for three years. When they transition to preschool, they remain with a new set of caregivers for the next 2-3 years until the go to kindergarten. ​ Curriculum Our curriculum is based on Teaching Strategies Gold and Creative Curriculum, we believe these are the best and most powerful way to improve child outcomes is through effective teaching. We’ve created forward-thinking, comprehensive, research-based, curriculum that features exploration and discovery as a way of learning. Our supportive curriculum solutions are used by early childhood educators across the country, helping them to offer developmentally appropriate programs that support active learning and promote children’s progress in all developmental areas. ​ Infant Curriculum Birth to 3 Years ​ Birth to 3 curriculum uses the children's interests while exposing them to basic concepts in their environment and sets up the environment to stimulate their curiosity such as having different textured materials, push and pull toys, puzzles, soft blocks and dolls etc. Preschool Curriculum 3 to 5 Years ​ The 3 to 5 year old curriculum uses elements of the Project Approach and uses the studies from creative curriculum based on the child's interests. There are several interest areas in the classroom, such as the block area, dramatic play, manipulative, science, art, writing area and library. ​