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Early Childhood Education

Migrant Education Early Start provides an array of services to children and their parents through its home visitation program.

The Migrant Education Region 23 preschool program provides children under the age of five with an hour of one-on-one home based tutoring in 32-week cycles. Whether or not students continue on to a second cycle will be depend upon each individual child’s needs. Each program cycle includes a field with the others used to enhance social skills, education for children of ages three through seven, and parent and child time.

Initially a needs assessment is conducted for each child and family where goals are set for the cycle. Additionally, at this time it is determined whether the family has health insurance. Children who are without coverage are referred to health facilitators within the county. Depending upon each child’s age, s/he goes through the Brigance Assessment, PPVT and/or PALS tests. The tests help educators determine where these children are developmentally.

During the weekly visits, parents are required to learn how to work with their children, and help further enhance language development, literacy, school readiness, and support the achievement of developmental milestones. Region 23 distributes Kinder Surveys to all Kindergarten teachers with Migrant Students who have participated in Migrant Education Early Start. We use teachers’ feedback to evaluate the effectiveness of the program and in preparing students for kindergarten. Overall surveys show that students who were part of the Migrant Education Early Start program are ready for kindergarten.