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Newark Campus Child Development Center
COTC / OSUN
1179 University Drive Newark,
Ohio 43055
740-366-9340
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The Child Development
Center provides quality physical,
socio/emotional, and cognitive care for
children of Newark Campus students, staff, faculty,
and children of community residents, as well as providing educational experiences for
Newark Campus students. The Center sees itself as a supplement to the
child’s family by providing quality care. The best learning activities
are child-selected, open-ended and developmentally appropriate. The teachers
offer a semi-structured program based on the needs of the child’s age group.
Varied experiences are offered to stimulate socio/emotional, cognitive, and
physical development. Through a warm and secure environment, the
teachers seek to help the child learn self-discipline and develop personal
confidence and feelings of self-worth. Our teachers strive to enrich a
child’s total development.
Examples of physical development goals:
Achieving gross motor control:
moving the large
muscles in the body, especially the arms and legs, consciously and
deliberately. Development in this area includes balance and stability
movements (running, jumping, skipping) and physical manipulations (throwing,
kicking, catching).
Achieving fine motor control:
using and coordinating the
small muscles in the hands and wrists with dexterity. Development in this
area allows children to perform self-help skills and manipulate small
objects such as scissors and writing tools.
Examples of socio/emotional goals:
Achieving a sense of self:
knowing oneself and
relating to other people – both children and adults.
Taking responsibility for self and others:
following rules and routines, respecting others and taking initiative.
Behaving in a pro-social way: showing empathy and
getting along in the world, for example, by sharing and taking turns.
Listening and speaking: using spoken language
to communicate with others, enlarging one’s vocabulary, expressing oneself,
understanding the oral speech of others, participating in a conversation,
and using language to solve problems.
Reading and writing: making sense of
written language, understanding the purpose of print and how it works,
gaining knowledge of the alphabet, writing letters and words.
Examples of cognitive goals:
Earning
and problem solving: being purposeful about acquiring and using
information, resources and materials.
We encourage the children to observe events around them, ask questions, make
predictions, and test possible solutions.
Thinking
logically: gathering and
making sense of the information by comparing, contrasting, sorting,
classifying, counting, measuring and recognizing patterns.
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