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Victor Valley College
Child Development Lab Classroom
Established 1974
Mission Statement
 To provide a quality lab
site for early childhood
education students in
Victor Valley College’s
Child Development
Department.
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 Offering ECE students
a laboratory setting to
unobtrusively observe
the development of
young children.
Laboratory
Setting
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 College students will receive
professional training to further their
understanding of child growth and
development.
Sandy Visser-Jones, Professor
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 Provide an
educational
environment of the
latest trends in child
development.
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Goals
 Provide a safe and rich learning experience
designed to meet both their individual and
developmental needs.
 To support Victor Valley College students
in the fulfillment of their educational goals.
 Partner with parents and support them in
their role as the most influential person in
their child's life.
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Parent Conferences
 Parents receive one on
one attention from
teachers.
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Objectives
 Offer early childhood
education students a
program model to apply
their knowledge of
children, families and
development and put that
knowledge into practice
in a richly diverse
setting.
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Objectives
 To provide safe, reliable,
inclusive and culturally
relevant child care
services, in partnership
with families.
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Objectives
 To assist children in
gaining confidence and
competence by fostering
the ability to make choices
and decisions.
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Objectives
 To help children develop
self discipline and
problem solving skills as
an emerging ability during
early childhood.
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Staffing
 Management
Kelley Johnson: Program Director
Peggy Ruby, Permit Teacher
 Credentialed Teachers
 Federal Work Study Students
 Student Teachers
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Supplementary Services
 Child Development
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Americans with
Disabilities Act
 At the Victor Valley College CDC all children are
welcomed. We do not discriminate on the basis of,
sex, sexual orientation, gender, ethnic group
identification, race ancestry, national origin,
religion, color, mental or physical ability, when
determining which are served. Our program
welcomes and includes children with disabilities,
and we make reasonable accommodations for such
children as described in the Americans with
Disabilities Act. We work closely with other
agencies and families to provide exemplary
services to these children.
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Licensing and Funding
 Victor Valley College Child Development
Lab Classroom is licensed (#360906573)
through the State of California Community
Care Licensing Department of Social
Services, and funded through the California
Department of Education, Child
Development Division.
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 Created by:
Ron Osburn
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