Palomar College Child Development Center

Escondido Center

We respect each child's individuality and uniqueness. We believe that growth takes place in orderly sequences, one stage following another. We believe that development of the whole child depends on appropriate physical, mental and social nourishment supplied by the home, school, and community; and that play, both formal and organized, is significant to intellectual growth. We believe it is important for a child to have a pleasant childhood and a good beginning toward a successful life.

Our Center's Teaching Staff are certified and trained Child Development Specialists and each class room has a site supervisor or master teacher.

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Social and Behavioral
Sciences Division

The curriculum is planned to be appropriate for the age span of the children within the group and is implemented with the attention to the different needs, interests, and developmental levels of each child. Opportunities to explore, investigate, manipulate, observe and discover in the following areas of curriculum; physical development (includes games and activities that foster physical development) dramatic play, language and literacy (story telling and dramatizing) science, math ,computer, art, music/movement, nutrition, circle time (includes interaction and sharing) social and waterplay.

Each teacher develops a balanced, developmentally appropriate and flexible program to meet the needs of children in his/her classroom. Our program follows the research findings of Jean Piaget and other noted Child Development experts. They state that children of this age need to be active in their learning environment, experiencing the world with all of their senses through "hands on" concrete experiences in order to assimilate the information.