About TEDCC
Tufts Educational Day Care Center offers an innovative year-round, full-day educational preschool and kindergarten program for children from within the Tufts community and its surrounding cities. Our Center is located in a state-of-the-art preschool facility on Tufts' main campus. Each of our four classrooms is staffed by three teachers who hold either Bachelor's or Master's degrees in early childhood education and by a variety of graduate teaching assistants, student teachers and undergraduate interns. A Parent Coordinator acts as a primary liaison between school and home and supervises a variety of family-school activities. Tufts Educational Day Care Center is a laboratory school serving an ethnically diverse and international population of youngsters, where Tufts students and faculty can observe, participate in a variety of practice teaching experiences and conduct research. We also eagerly seek to serve children with a wide variety and range of special needs. Our Special Friends Program, jointly sponsored and supervised by the Center and Tufts Leonard Carmichael Society, offers an opportunity for any interested undergraduate to form a close one-to-one relationship with a preschool or kindergarten youngster. The curriculum at Tufts addresses the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development of each child, with particular emphasis on creating a strong sense of community among children, teachers and families.
