College of wooster nursery school: Nursery School – The College of Wooster The College of Wooster

Nursery School – The College of Wooster The College of Wooster

Each child is special at The College of Wooster Nursery School where PLAY is highly valued. In this play environment, the children: Make friends, create, learn, build, love a guinea pig, laugh, listen to stories, sing, explore nature, climb, question, paint, share, cook, dance, experiment, grow, think, discover, imagine and much more!

Our Program

• Open to all area children age 3-5 years old. Must be 3 years old to enroll.
• Average class size is 20 children.
• Morning class for 3 and 4-year-olds held on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.
• Morning class for 4 and 5-year-olds held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m.
• Afternoon classes for 3 to 5-year-olds is available Monday – Friday from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. Families can choose 2-day, 3-day, 4-day or 5-days per week.
• Each class has two teachers and three to five college students.
• Parents are welcome at any time to visit and/or share their interests and talents.
• Parent/teacher conversations are a vital part of the program.
• Parents receive a written report of their child’s experience at the end of the year.
• Current tuition.
• School is licensed by the State of Ohio.
• Children need to be toilet-trained.

2022-23 School Calendar

Philosophy

Our program is based on a philosophy of early childhood education which is derived from the cognitive developmental theory of Jean Piaget, a Swiss child psychologist. According to this theory, young children are not passive recipients of knowledge. They actively construct their own knowledge of the world when they are provided with a physical and social environment that gives them the materials, freedom, encouragement and time to explore and experiment, to try out their own ideas, and to learn from their own successes and failures.

Purposes & Goals

Our ultimate purpose is to provide an environment which will promote the optimum intellectual, social and physical development of each child entrusted to our care. Our primary goal for every child is the development of a more positive self-concept; the child who feels good about him/herself is more open to his/her social and physical world. We also place emphases on the development of social skills, creative self-expression, self-discipline, self-reliance and a positive attitude toward school and learning. It is vital that a child’s first school experience be a positive one, for it is there that attitudes toward school are formed and important foundations for future learning are laid.

Contact Info

Nursery School
Westminster Church House
353 E. Pine Street
Wooster, OH 44691
Phone: 330-263-2131
Fax: 330-263-2228
[email protected]

Parent Handbook (pdf)

Nature Club Schedule (pdf)

Child Medical Form (pdf)

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Founding

The College of Wooster Nursery School is fully licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and has been in continuous operation since 1947. Jean Bates, wife of the minister of Westminster Presbyterian Church, conceived of the idea and the school began with the support of the Junior Women’s Club. Mrs. Bates, who held a master’s degree in early childhood education, started the nursery school in the basement of the old Memorial Chapel. In 1966, upon the completion of Westminster Church House, the nursery school moved to its current location.

Esther B. Young followed Jean Bates. In 1956 Clare Adel Schreiber became teacher and director. She introduced a program with play as its cornerstone. Play, a child’s innate curiosity about the natural world, and Mrs. Schreiber’s love and knowledge of nature, have provided the basis for the nursery school’s curriculum ever since. Mrs. Schreiber retired in 1985 but remained active as a consultant until her death in 2011.

Affiliation with the College of Wooster

In 1974 The College of Wooster fully incorporated the nursery school into its program. The nursery school offers over 100 students each year practical experience in the early childhood classroom, through psychology class placements, I.S. (Independent Study) guidance, and employment opportunities. The energy and perspective of the college students enrich the program in myriad ways. Affiliation with the college also enhances the nursery school program through partnerships with several academic departments. In the past, the children have visited the tree lab and learned about dinosaurs with geology faculty, viewed exhibits at the art museum, and been invited to learn about bees with biology professors.

Directors

In the years since Mrs. Schreiber’s directorship, the nursery school has been fortunate to have several talented and dedicated directors to carry on her legacy. Their energy, passion, imagination, and love of children and nature made a lasting impression. Both the preschool children and the psychology students observing in the classroom have benefitted from their wisdom, patience, and guidance. They are:

• Lynn Akam: 1985-1990
• Carol Stewart: 1990-2003 (teacher 1985-2012)
• Joyce Murphy: 2003-2019 (teacher 1991-2019)
• Sarah Myers: 2019-current (teacher 2012-current)

News

The nursery school teachers have presented the school’s unique nature-based curriculum at statewide and national early childhood educators’ conferences. Most recently, in 2012, they led a workshop at the Ohio Early Care and Education Conference entitled “Green Grow the Children: Nature Discovery for Everyone,” which offered hands-on ways to introduce nature study into the early-childhood classroom.

In 2014, the nursery school was named a WILD School Site by the Ohio Division of Wildlife. To achieve this distinction, the school demonstrated that the efforts of teachers, students and the school community benefitted wildlife through habitat improvement projects accomplished on the school grounds. The school grounds have also been certified a monarch waystation by Monarch Watch and observing the monarch lifecycle has become an integral part of the school’s fall nature curriculum.

The nursery school celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2022!

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“A British education is a first-class ticket to a journey called life,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair once said. And of course, he didn’t just mean Oxford or Cambridge. Young British universities are trying to keep up with their eminent competitors and have an active policy of attracting foreign students. After all, they bring much more money to the university treasury than British students. In this issue of the magazine we cover the University of Hertfordshire and Worcester.

University of Hertfordshire

After a rich excursion program around London, the small town of Hatfield, which is 30 km north of the capital, seemed deserted and deserted to us. Sunday evening was absolutely nothing to do. Two students running past explained that the best entertainment is going to the cinema, for everything else it is better to go to London.
“You won’t find anything interesting here,” Chris McIntyre, Dean of the Faculty of Design at the University of Hertfordshire, confirmed in an informal conversation over dinner. “Students can live here in complete safety, calmly, and London is only 40 minutes away. district, there will be restaurants and other entertainment facilities. And the dean, as an experienced developer, shares with us his plans for the transformation of Hatfield.
In the recent past, industrial enterprises were located here, mainly aviation and instrument-making, which closed ten years ago. Specialists for those companies were trained by the Hertfordshire College of Technology. In 1952 it was transformed into a polytechnic institute, later, in 1992, it was given the status of a university. Now it includes the School (Faculty) of Arts and Design, as well as the School of Cinematography, Music and Media Technologies. The university invests heavily in the development of these promising areas: in 19In 1998, £13 million was spent on setting up their own film studio, while the construction of a new campus for the School of Art and Design, a learning and information center and a business school for the humanities and education in 2003 cost £120 million. in the same year, another £15 million was spent, however, funds were slightly miscalculated and instead of a 50-meter pool, a half-sized pool had to be built.

The art of modeling

As in all British universities, at the University of Hertfordshire, higher education programs (undergraduate) take three years, another year should be studied to obtain a master’s degree (postgraduate). Each year of study costs a foreign student £7,000, while the British pay only £3,000 a year, but not immediately, but only after graduation. A weekly stay in a single room in a hostel costs £55 for a student, the presence of DSL (high-speed Internet) increases the payment to £80. Significant expenses can be avoided: for Russian students there is an affiliate program with the British Higher School of Design in Moscow. So you can study at home for two years and only come to Hatfield for the last year.
Among the most popular majors at the University of Hertfordshire are Digital Animation, Modeling Design and Special Effects, Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Illustration. According to Chris McIntyre, graduates in these areas are in demand in many areas of business, and the media technology and film industries are currently experiencing particularly rapid growth. In general, the employment rate of graduates of the University of Hertfordshire is quite high: within six months after graduation, only 7% of the total could not find a job (or continued their studies).
The city of Hatfield is the local Hollywood. The local studios filmed the films “Saving Private Ryan”, “Harry Potter”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Alexander”, “Batman Returns”. Local teachers and students were involved in the creation of special effects. By the way, there are about 40% of the full-time teachers here, the rest are acting part-time designers.
Our visit to the Faculty of Arts and Design turned into a quick jog through the creative workshops. Students raised their heads from their tables in surprise, and something unimaginable was happening in the studios. Future industrial designers worked on creating some unprecedented structures from white disposable cups, students of applied arts programs comprehended the magic of batik, graphic artists and architects sculpted something from clay, and 3D animation specialists created models from the same material, so that later bring them to life with the help of computer technology. By the way, one such model was placed in a shop window at the entrance to the school: the ugly Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, it turns out, is also a product of local production.

How to get to the library

The next item on our program was a resource center, in our opinion a library, but not quite an ordinary one. She works around the clock. Resource Center services are available from anywhere in the world. Multimedia and computer technologies, apparently, inspired the leadership of the university so much that a special information environment Stadynet was created for students. You enter the password and you get access to all lecture materials and publications on the issue of interest, and you don’t have to go to classes. The only pity is that we were not able to evaluate this wealth: during the demonstration, the system requested a fee for viewing. But the idea seemed tempting: what if audio recordings of lectures, for example, downloaded to an iPod, suddenly come in handy in exams?
Waiting for us in the same building of the library center is Teodor, an MBA student who turns out to be just Fyodor Savelyev, regional development manager for a Moscow retail company selling household appliances. Especially for him, a course was developed here, which included modules on practical and financial management and the prospects for strategic management. As a teacher of one of the disciplines, the business school invited a leading British specialist in retail chains. By the way, this circumstance had almost no effect on the cost of the course, the price of education increased by only 10%. The total cost of education and living, according to Fedor, amounted to about £12 thousand. The company agreed to pay almost two-thirds of this amount, the rest was personal savings. But Fedor chose this business school not only in order to save money: he has to combine work with education, he has to participate in some projects remotely, and thanks to a flexible curriculum for urgent matters, he can fly to Moscow. “Such a program in Switzerland would be many times more expensive, and studying for an MBA in Moscow is completely pointless,” Fedor says. “The fundamental difference is not only in basic knowledge, but also in literature. We have translated only classical things that do not take into account current trends “. When asked if he expects any changes in his own career, Fedor replies: “As far as I know, after training I will take the position of a country manager. If I am not fired from the company by the end of the year, then I did not study in vain.”

Plaster models come to life in the hands of young 3D animation specialists

Photo: ELENA ALEEVA

University of Worcester

The picturesque old Worcester is located in the very heart of England, from here it is two hours from London. The city is famous for Worcester royal china and Worcester sauce, local attractions include white swans on the River Severn and a thousand-year-old cathedral. The population of the city does not exceed 100 thousand people, and 600 people work at the University of Worcester – this is the largest employer in Worcestershire.
The University of Worcester was founded in 1955 as a teacher training institute. It received the university status only a year ago, but teachers of various profiles are still being trained here. In addition to them, the university trains specialists in the field of applied sciences (geography and archeology). The university also includes the Faculty of Teaching Methods and Educational Sciences, the Institute of Health, Welfare and Psychology, the School of Sports Sciences and the Worcester Business School, which offers programs in the development of computer games, multimedia and Internet technologies. In addition, the university has a department of foreign languages, which offers summer courses for international students and a one-year preparatory program for those who plan to enter here. The university ranks third in the UK for the quality of teaching sports sciences and 15th for nursing and teaching excellence.
Investment in development compared to the University of Hertfordshire seemed to us purely symbolic. Only £1 million was spent on the construction of a new digital arts center, a professional sound recording and television studio is available. Students use all this as needed and just for fun. But the new campus, which is planned to be built in the very center of Worcester, will cost £90 million. Tuition for foreign students is £7.6 thousand per year, living costs average from £50 per week, including fees electricity.

Creative approach

The Computer Technology Center is the pride of the University of Worcester. That’s where we’re heading. Education here is conducted in three programs: digital media technologies, video animation and audio technologies, interactive media technologies and web design. Since the opening, only three courses have been released here, and the master’s program will begin only in September 2007.
We were warned that children, that is, students of the second year of study, are defending practical work today, and therefore they are dressed in full dress – jackets and ties. The task was issued just a day ago and consisted in making a visual campaign for the upcoming elections, but for young people. Someone was still finalizing the script for an advertising animation with us, someone brought posters of their own production. By the way, a creative approach to solving any problems is categorically welcomed here, and it’s not so easy to enter one of the center’s programs: an applicant must submit a portfolio and pass an interview.
Before leaving, we managed to visit the research center (Motional Analysis Action Centre), where we got an idea of ​​how computer technology can be used to identify and eliminate problems of the musculoskeletal system in injuries. And then we were shown the training laboratory, where practical classes in nursing are held: with us, a special mannequin simulated labored breathing, then the urge to vomit and complete cardiac arrest. The laboratory is wonderfully equipped, and we were pleasantly surprised by all this, but one question literally haunted me, and I asked the head of the University of Worcester, Professor David Green.
– The university considers the training of physical education teachers and nursing to be its priority areas. Are you planning to attract foreign students to these areas?
— Yes, we hope they will be interested. Sports science is new, even in the UK, and sports as a business is growing very fast. Therefore, our graduates will be able to work in the field of tourism or as trainers in the entertainment industry.
— But there are certain differences between countries, at least in terms of the demand for specialists in the labor market. Do you know that nursing in Russia is one of the lowest paid professions?
– I confess, we probably do not fully take into account these differences.
ELENA ALEEV

The editors of the magazine “Money” would like to thank the British Council, VisitBritain and Brit Education & Travel for their help in organizing the trip.