Assistant Preschool Teacher at Creative Minds Learning Centers - Portland, Oregon, United States
Creative Minds operates seven eco-friendly and certified preschools and child development centers in the Portland, Tualatin, and Clackamas Areas. Our schools are proud to offer media-free educational and healthy environments with the children's interests and parent's needs in mind. Creative Minds' mission is to provide a progressive preschool program that helps foster life-long learning and developmental growth. We have been proudly serving infants through private kindergarten since 1997. Our philosophy is to enrich children's lives with creative arts and accredited educational materials while developing self esteem, confidence and a sense of independence. While there are many approaches and "labels" for teaching young children, Creative Minds schools focuses on the basis of early childhood development being "trichotomized" into a trio of goals: (1) social/emotional development and (2) intellectual development and (3) the acquisition of meaningful and useful academic skills. Children are capable and willing to learn and naturally can begin to read at Pre-Kindergarten grade. It is our duty to guide the children during the day in a structured setting. The children depend on the security of a daily routine and come to school excited to see their friends and teachers.