Types of Programs Chapter 2 WWYC

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

• Head Start programs

• Montessori schools

• Parent cooperatives

Licensing rules for this type of child care are difficult to enforce.

• kindergartens

• family child care

• high school labs

May focus on providing a place for custodial care while parents or guardians are at work or school.

• Child care centers

• Kindergartens

• Parent cooperatives

Stress the theory that children learn best by being active.

• School-age child care

• Montessori schools

• Parent cooperatives

Stress vocational education for future child care professionals.

• Child care centers

• Parent cooperatives

• Family child care

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

• Laboratory schools

• Kindergartens

• High school child care programs

Allow secondary students to work with the preschool children of high school students, faculty, and community members.

• School-age child care

• Laboratory schools

• High school child care programs

Are part of many school systems today and require children to be at least five years old.

• kindergarten

• school age child care

• family child care

Developed to meet the developmental needs of children from low-income homes.

• High school child care programs

• Montessori schools

• Head Start programs

Five to ten year old children most often attend.

• kindergarten

• school age child care

• motessori