The Home Learning Environment

In addressing the current health crisis, it’s our promise to hold ourselves to the highest of standards; our home learning environment will be cleaned throughout the day, and continuously served by enhanced air purification. At Red Door Playgroup, our top priority has always been for the health and safety of all those in our care. Now more than ever, this holds true. We are responding to the need for enhanced protocols under the guidance of the CDC and NJ Division of Family Development Office of Child Care Operations to ensure a childcare setting that is clean, safe and provides families with a peace of mind.  

At Red Door Playgroup, our goal is to create a warm and inviting home environment that is favorable for helping all children play independently and cooperatively in order to learn. A positive home-learning environment that a teacher creates and encourages can increase a student's ability to learn and feel comfortable as a member of the home. The Red Door Playgroup encourages emotional well-being, and creates an atmosphere for both learning and emotional development through daily interactions within the home environment.

Parent/Teacher Relationship

At Red Door Playgroup, the teacher will work closely with the families in the program to create a nurturing home away from home space, and experiences for each individual child. Parent communication is vital in this relationship, and is valued. Parent involvement will help extend teaching outside the classroom and create a more positive learning experience for children in the long term.   

Child/Teacher Relationship

The teacher’s role is to focus on the whole child’s development – physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively. The teacher mentors the learning process through documentation of children’s play; facilitates the child's development and progress by planning activities based on the child's skill level and interests; and actively engages in most of the activities alongside the child. As children interact with play materials and other children, the teacher scaffolds learning by giving children new vocabulary, suggesting possible solutions to problems, providing resources and modeling appropriate social behaviors all through play and structured activities.