My class consists of 17 students‚ 11 girls and 6 boys. They vary in age‚ some are three and others are four-year-old. My Head Start class identifies numerous standards: social/emotional‚ physical (including fine and gross motor skills)‚ language‚ science/technology‚ literacy‚ creative movement‚ and mathematics. Each year‚ the curriculum changes‚ but learning occurs through play. The Creative Curriculum and TS Gold instructional assessment is utilized to measure the student’s outcome. Students are
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much younger than her other children. I decided to go into the classroom this afternoon to observe the child I will identify as Twin1. This classroom that the twins attend has a unique structure; the twins are 18 months and enrolled in an Early Head Start program. They attend school for 7 hours a week; 3.5 hours‚ 2 times a week. In the classroom there are 8 children in the class ranging from 16mo-3yrr with 2 teachers. The class eats 2 meals in this time frame of being in the classroom. The time
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environment to develop strong cognitive skills.The first and foremost of these programs would be Head Start‚ Launched in 1965 by its creator and first director Jules Sugarman (Administration for Children and Family ’s‚ 2013)‚ Head Start was originally conceived as a catch-up summer school program that would teach low-income children in a few weeks what they needed to know to start kindergarten. Head Start helps to create healthy development in low-income children age’s three to five. It also offers
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Head start begin in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson and chief R. Sergeant Shriver launched a fan fare with the confidence that preschool would improve a child road to success. This program was geared to serve poor children around the nation which gave lasting benefits to children all around. The benefits that were offered for head start would help children’s educational‚ social and health background. A new program has come about which gave many opportunities for teachers‚ parents and children
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Javona Harris Agency Evaluation Paper Issues in Social Service Delivery: 39-421 Telamon Corporation Organizational Culture Telamon Corporation Head Start centers provide a secure setting where children can develop their skills under the watchful eyes of well-trained caregivers. The mission of this agency is “to support the social-emotional‚ academic‚ and physical development of children by working with families‚ early care and education programs‚ and the community through a statewide‚
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disadvantaged groups‚ compensating for inequality in social or economic conditions”. As a result‚ the proposed solution is a government program titled “Head Start”. Although the program is noble‚ it is targeted for low-income families who qualify according to each state’s guidelines and is federally funded (ECLKC‚ 2013). Unfortunately‚ gaining access to the Head Start program is difficult for families whose income exceeds the poverty guidelines‚ yet insufficient to afford private early education services.
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The Head Start program in Montgomery County as a Social Welfare Agency General History of Head Start Head Start is a federal funded program that supports school readiness for children from the time they are born‚ to the age of five from low-income families by expanding their cognitive‚ social‚ and emotional development. Head Start is one of the few programs that is still thriving from the 1960s. It is administered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ and began in
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WMCAP incorporated in September of 1967‚ founding executive director‚ Anthony Mele‚ obtained funding for the first family planning program in the State of Ohio. The program offered a family service center and outreach program‚ as well as a full year Head Start program. In 1973‚ The Women‚ Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program or WIC‚ provided through Community Action‚ became the first WIC program in the state of Ohio and the second in the United States. WIC provides nutritious foods‚
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To create a cost model for this program one must look at the historic costs of education. In 1960 President Lyndon Johnson started the War on Poverty program. Instituting the Head Start program was a part of this initiative (Siegel‚ Welsh‚ & Senna‚ 2006). Funding for this program exceeds seven billion dollars today. This cost is just a minimal fraction of the total education costs of the country (Siegel‚ 2007). The cost of improvements to the education system needed to reduce crime would likely be
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