Childcare

The Early Childhood Education Lab School provides young children with an environment that fosters an appreciation of self, others and the world around them. It promotes self-motivated learning through discovery and hands-on involvement with their surroundings. Emphasis is placed on meeting individual needs while encouraging respect for others and our environment.

While enrolled at QCC's Early Childhood Education Lab School, your child will engage in thoughtfully planned curriculum through individual, small, and large group activities. These experiences are designed to help children develop proficiencies in self-help, emotional regulation, and social skills that form a strong foundation for learning. We foster a love of learning and inspire wonder about the world around us. Through play, children build a working understanding of concepts, and stimulate greater fluency in language.

Children are challenged to solve both cognitive and social problems in a safe atmosphere with adult support. They practice developing skills in an environment filled with manipulative, creative, and dramatic sensory materials. Children work with teachers to construct classroom rules and limits with the understanding that at school, our bodies are safe, our feelings are safe and our environment is safe. These basic principals guide our discussions around limit setting, and ensure that feelings and self-respect are preserved.

The Early Childhood Education Lab School combines exploration and discovery, opportunities for making choices, and an atmosphere of order, predictability, warmth, and mutual trust. Most importantly, children gain confidence and competence through interactions with people and materials.