The Preparatory School of Dripping Springs
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The Preparatory School of Dripping Springs
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At The PREP School, we are guided by one leading philosophy: “To provide the highest level of early childhood education in a safe and secure environment that nurtures each child’s individual needs.”
We’ll do that by abiding by our mission, which is to:
At the heart of everything we do is The PREP curriculum, which is not based on a standard “one-size-fits-all” approach – but rather on each child’s unique learning and development needs.
Our emergent learning approach allows for children to develop a love of learning. Young children do not learn because they are taught. They learn as a result of their own doing…through actions, relationships, inquiries, opportunities, and repetition.
Our first and most important goal with our curriculum is to inspire curiosity, inquiry, and enjoyment in the classroom. Doing so has been proven to build motivation (coming from within the child) and a long-term love of learning. These are the greatest gifts our teachers can give a child in preparation for their primary school experience. Teachers must understand how and what children learn and how to recognize moments when they can support children by asking a provoking question, providing a tool, sharing a story, helping seek an answer… Therefore our goal is to allow children to develop long-term projects, deep concentration, and the ability to redirect themselves if they are bored or otherwise not engaged in an activity. This is fundamental to their development that will support learning throughout their lifespan. Therefore, our emergent teaching style requires our teachers, in knowing how and what children can learn at these ages, to support and guide learning as it emerges naturally inside the school, in the natural world, and in our community as a whole. The traditional preschool schedule teaches them to ignore their own learning rhythm. The PREP Schools curriculum provides for how children learn. They do not learn by sitting before a teacher who imparts knowledge. They learn by doing and self-directing. Therefore, children succeed in the future by learning to love school.
In knowing that children learn in different ways and at different speeds – we start the process by conducting an initial assessment of the child upon enrollment. This takes into account not only the child’s proficiency – but it also includes a parental assessment so that parents can weigh in on their child’s strengths and weaknesses too.
Moving forward, the child’s academic assessment is conducted with each classroom move-up and any time the parent requests an additional assessment to be done. This assessment process allows the ability to track each child’s academic progress and assures the child is placed in the correct classroom developmentally.
The PREP School is not your ordinary preschool. We are an innovative, private preschool-meaning we focus on being unique and customized.
At The PREP School, we know that good health, safety, and security for your child is just as important as our curriculum
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