Types of Programs

Dental, medical, and mental health services are provided for children

• Child Care Center

• Kindergarten

• Head Start

• Montessori School

Children interact with material that is self-correcting and requires little adult guidance

• Laboratory Schools

• Montessori School

•  Head Start

• Family Child Care

Some states may require licensing or certification by a community agency

• Child care centers

• Parent Cooperatives

•  High school child care

• Family Child Care

Stress the theory that children learn best by being active

• School-age Programs

• Montessori School

• Kindergarten

• Parent Cooperatives

Provide career training for future child care professional

• Laboratory School

• KIndergarten

• High School Child Care

• Parent Cooperatives

 Exist to provide training for future teachers and to serve as a study group for research

•  Head Start

• Laboratory School

• Child Care Center

• High School Child Care

Allow postsecondary (college) students to work with the preschool children

• High School Child Care

• Parent Cooperatives

• Laboratory Schools

• Family Child Care

Curriculum is based on preacademic skills, social development, and creative activities

• Kindergarten

• Family Child Care

• Montessori School

• Child Care Center

This program was created to meet the developmental needs of children from low-income homes

• Kindergarten

• Parent Cooperatives

• Child Care Center

• Head Start

Five-to-ten -year-old children most often attend

•  School-age Program

• Laboratory School

• Child Care Center

• Head Start