To enhance children’s feelings of comfort and security.
To enable children to learn those things which are important to them.
To address all aspects of children’s development.
To provide opportunities to translate experience into understanding.
To provide individualized instruction and small group activities rather than requiring children to move as a group from one learning objective to the next.
To enable children to experience both challenge and success.
To use language which enhances children’s critical thinking.
To teach children concepts and skills through active manipulation of objects.
To design activities which are carefully and developmentally sequenced.
To design activities so that concepts and skills are appropriatelypresented by utilizing a variety of methods and techniques.