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- A Savvy Primer: How to Best Use The Savvy Source in Your Preschool Search
- Beyond Savvy: What Else Can I Do?
- Beyond the Spirited Child: Behavior Challenges and Preschool
- Demystifying the Admissions Process
- Family Values and the Preschool Curriculum
- Finding the Right Preschool for Your Child
- First Steps: Beginning Your Preschool Search
- Great Preschools: Safety and Leadership
- Great Preschools: The Importance of Home-School Connection
- Great Preschools: The Preschool Mission Statement
- Great Preschools: What about This? What about That?
- Great Preschools: What to Look for in the Classroom
- Helping the Gifted or Challenged Preschooler
- Great Preschools: High Expectations for All Students
- How Schools Motivate the Preschool Learner
- Great Preschools: Individualized Teaching
- Learning Differences in Preschool
- Learning Goals for Your Child
- Learning Styles in Preschoolers
- Money and Education: Affording Preschool
- Music, Art & More: Preschool Extras
- My Child Is on the Waitlist! What Should I Do?
- Parent Involvement: What to Expect
- Practical Matters
- Preschool and Special Needs Children
- Preschool Community Yours and Your Child's
- Remembering to Make the Most of Any Preschool
- Safety and Leadership
- School Rules and Your Values
- Six Steps to a Successful Preschool Choice
- Teaching Methods in the Preschool Classroom
- Tools You Can Use: Preschool Search Worksheets
- Treats and Time Outs: Behavior Management in the Preschool Classroom
- Waldorf? Play-Based? Montessori? What Does It All Mean?
- What Does My Child Need? Cognitive Development and Preschool Selection
- What Makes a Great Preschool?
- What's the Right Age to Begin Preschool?
- What to Expect from Your Preschool Search?
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Family Values and the Preschool Curriculum
Sometimes, your family's values may affect the content you want for your child at preschool. These are frequently subjects, topics and areas of early child development that you value very strongly, regardless of your child's capabilities or interest. Common examples include academic readiness in basic subjects, religion and morals, foreign language acquisition (or native language development for immigrants), and other areas of development: social, emotional, physical, artistic, musical, or the well-rounded "whole child."
What should you look for when choosing a preschool if one of these things is very important to you?
Family Values and The Preschool Search
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Is [your valued content] covered in the curriculum? How? Do all teachers cover this content area? How much time each day or week is spent on this content? Do teachers who cover this content have special backgrounds or training? Describe. See The Savvy Source web pages:
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