The philosophy of the Children's Center reflects our belief that a high quality early childhood program provides a safe and nurturing environment that promotes the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and creative development of young children while responding to the needs of families and our community. The Children's Center is located in the Robert Call Child Development Center on the south side of SRJC's Santa Rosa campus. Each classroom may be viewed from an adjacent observation room. In order to facilitate use of the center, we ask that you respect our department philosophy regarding studying young children. The Child Development Department advocates the naturalistic approach to studying young children.
Naturalistic studies look at what children do under normal, everyday circumstances.
We do not allow students to use an experimental approach where the environment is modified to elicit certain types of behavior or where specific tasks are presented to assess the child's developmental level. In order to observe in our center it is important that you follow these guidelines. These guidelines were created to ensure the safety of the children and the smooth operation of the program. You must wear your student I.D. card with a sticker which will be issued to you by your instructor. Parents who wish to use the observation rooms will be issued a sticker by the children's Center office.