What's the High/Scope Educational Approach All About?

High/Scope students become independent, responsible, and confident - ready for success in school.

High/Scope students learn to play many of their own activities, carry them out, and talk with other children and their teacher about what they have done.

High/Scope students learn through active involvement with people, materials, events, and ideas.

High/Scope students gain knowledge and skills in creative representation, language and literacy, initiative and social relations, movement, music, classification, seriation, number, space, and time.

A better start for better lives!

  High/Scope's Open Framework Philosophy

High/Scope's preschool educational approach is an open framework that organizes the children's and teacher's environment, daily routine, and interactions. The framework gives the teaching team a systematic method for planning, organizing, and carrying out their preschool responsibilties. For the children, the framework provides a consistent and secure daily experience that promises interesting things to do, attention by their teachers to their interests and needs, annd a sense of control over themselves and their environment.

The framework is open because the experiences teachers plan for children foster independent thinking, initiative, and creativity. Children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical capacities develop quickly when they can use materials and their imaginations freely in an environment that promotes investigation, decision-making, cooperation, persistence, and problem-solving. The capacities that children develop in this open framework are broad abilities that children can and do use daily in the classroom as well as at home.